Final Fantasy 4 is some good stuff! Story, characters, music, combat etc. It's just got one catch: Brutally difficult (In comparison to all the other Final Fantasy games) At the start of the game almost any enemy on the world map can instantly kill you and most of the bosses have to be fought using specific techniques or they will wipe you out in one or two turns. Check it out! It's awesome. (Seriously, I love it.)
Final fantasy 3? I played the DS version, and It's kinda like the first 2. Very little in the way of story, strict saving rules (Only on the world map) and the job system is simple. You are one class. You can change. But nothing caries over. It's not to memorable, but it has all the problems you listed like the status ailments and item stuff.
Final Fantasy 2: F*CK IT. Played through that recently, for the first time, and I hated everything about it. The leveling up system, which could be likened to Skyrim or Oblivion. It's neat that every character is a blank slate and you can turn them into anything you want... but the game is kinda broken by it. If you cast a lot of spells, you gain more MP... but if your spells cost very little or too much your not going to gain any. The weapon leveling system is broken too. You only gain experience in any given weapon class by attacking enemies the game deems stronger that you. Most enemies, are not deemed that way. The game also has no permanent 4th party member. They get rotated out constantly as part of the story and there always under powered. The games dumb.
The first Final Fantasy is cool. There's very little in the way of story, but it's a neat little adventure to collect some crystals. You choose your four characters at the start of the game and have to live with that choice. The worst part is the... exploration? Nobody tells you what to do after the first objective or two and you have to talk to every single person in every single town till you hear something that might be a lead of the next story progression quest. I got lost for hours till eventually some random towns person said something along the lines of "There's supposedly a fairy in the forest" and I had something to go on. But after that I was lost again... The game doesn't hold your hand, it just tosses you in the pool and tells you to swim. Not how to swim, just too swim.
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