Anyone used the "special features" during their playthrough?

[Vakuda]

I been enjoying the game a lot but it was getting increasingly difficult quick near the end, the random encounters were feeling more like mini bosses than regular monsters. These encounters were more frequent than I remember them being many years ago. At first I decided to only change the encounter rate, but then it was speeding up the game because the fights seemed to drag on too long, and in the end I turned on super charge to beat the final few bosses in the story.

What is your opinion on the use of these features? Does it positively or negatively effect your experience?

I would have liked to finish the game without help, but I probably wouldn't have ever finished the game otherwise. It was too time consuming. My experience has been bittersweet.

[Tim]

Greatly improved it. Auto-fight is top for needlessly boring capturing monsters. Turbo mode is amazing just for walking around (looking at you, Mi'ihen Highroad, Mushroom Rock Road, Djose Road, Moonflow Road, Thunder Plains and so on, all those linear areas) and drastically shortens boring encounters and their combat. Though I do dislike how I miss out on quotes and other lines due to a lack of subtitles.

I have never used supercharge and likely will not either. Encounter rate I have set to high early on to grind a bit at Kilika and Mi'ihen. Nothing excessive, but the way FFX's AP system works is that if you're strong, you'll make lots of overkills and thus get way more AP than you would otherwise, and thus you stay strong. I hope it lasts at least. It'll also make capturing monsters a lot easier. No encounter rate I use if I need to backtrack or do something else, very useful as well.

[LadGaga]

Spammed em all to high heaven with no shame.

Supercharge and max gil are a Godsend for The Last Mission if anyone is interested in at least seeing that just for the sake of completion.

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Originally posted by Frankbrodie:

Spammed em all to high heaven with no shame.

Yup, me too. I'm here to enjoy myself, not waste time with poorly thought out game mechanics.

[Platinawolf]

Originally posted by Frankbrodie:

Spammed em all to high heaven with no shame.

Supercharge and max gil are a Godsend for The Last Mission if anyone is interested in at least seeing that just for the sake of completion.

I've played through FF10,,, Three? Four? Times already. No way I'm ever bothering to grind for gil. And no way that I'm not taking advantage of the speed boosts, more/no encounters or the auto berserk status.

[DrunkHobo]

Considering at least in ffx-2 you just have to equip items to do the same thing it was more of a time saver than a cheat, as far as encounters were concerned. I used auto battle and speed, but never used any of the other ones and got 100% and beat all the super bosses. Currently working my way through ffx because I had never played ffx-2 so I wanted to play it first.