Does anyone else dislike the materia system?

[iammori]

Every boss fight optimal way to approach is basically assess it and restart the fight to reorganize the whole comp. Assess needed to be innate ability that don't require materias.

Huge QoL would be to have different pages of different type of materias and presets for specific builds [Tifa-Magic-Ice] so I can choose the loadouts on the fly.

I go as far as saying that I don't see problem with allowing users to switch out materias mid-fight at no cost, but probably there's bunch of clever ways to break the balance.

At chapter 13 enjoying the graphic and overall game, just annoyance in managing combat consistently slowing down my pace.

[Babaganoosh]

How are you setting up your materia that, when you assess, you are incapable of doing what you need to, to defeat the fight?

I mean, most boss fights, and even some normal encounters, I would use assess. But I never came across an encounter where I would assess and then have to restart and change my build to be capable of winning. After using assess, I would always be able to complete the fight with my current configuration of materia and using some tact.

I just don't see how your setups or materia configurations could be so bad that you are having to restart every fight to make adjustments after you see the information from using assess.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by Radio:

I know it does sound that way and i apologize as im not sure how to phrase it better so i sound less douche. And thank you for your feedback.

np

[Mögbär]

To be fair, I think the jump in difficulty from Normal to Hard, when it comes to MP management, is really high and regular gameplay does not prepare you at all for it because MP is rarely an issue and can be re-filled easily the few times it might. I know I struggled for a while until I had figured out realiable tactics.

If people have problems they should consider that others do play on Hard successfully, so there obviously must be ways to do it. No shame in asking for hints if you do not want to toy around so much until you have a plan or just cannot find a good strategy, but it's pointless to blame the game for problems it offers solutions to.

@salty: I could see people not really having to restart but doing so because they simply want to use the best strategy, for instance equip fire when there's an enemy weak to it. It's not much of a problem in this game, but if the sequel offers more complex materia combinations instead of starting back at zero I think they should add the option to save a few equipment layouts per character so you can have some prepared and switch more easily to adapt to different situations.

[Pepsi-Cola]

if they make us restart at zero materia. RAGE thats all im saying. Not my fault they didn't release all of the games at the same time like they did with OG FF7. I shouldn't be punished for that.