I've been progressing through this relatively old game. And while it may not seem like a hard game, there are so many directions you can go in as far as configuring what your party brings to the table and how they develop that the game can easily end up being super hard if you neglect to take certain things into account that don't even become an issue right away. It's also one of those games from an era of "lets make these really big elaborate dungeons with lots of dead ends just to piss off the player" not to mention very few opportunities to save but luckily, that is a non-issue in my case. I found a few critical things to add to my party setup that has made the game much less painful and has carried me from &--#60;30% of the way through the game all the way to the entrance to the final boss (after a painfully long maze-like dungeon crawl)...and I was totally unprepared for this fight. My character's aren't nearly high enough level, my abilities aren't as effective against this guy as previous enemies and bosses, and this boss brings some stuff to the fight that, up until now, was rarely a problem. The only conceivable way to deal with this guy is to go back and grind, grind, grind like crazy and try to obtain some other stuff I don't already have to help me out. But I was getting so aggravated and impatient with all the random battles that I don't think I would have the patience for that. Even if I did, it would mean playing around for hours, spending a good 30 minutes traversing back to the final boss, only to possibly discover that I'm STILL not strong enough. Online guides/info are relatively scarce and not informative enough, and I can't get any cheats for this game. I feel so helpless, I feel like ramming my head into a wall. I also heard somewhere that the enemy encounter rate in the original version of the game was actually HIGHER, and with less XP per fight, than what I'm playing. It makes me wonder how players of the original game, back in the day, made it through the game, and using only conventional saving methods, without doing the aforementioned?