Quote Originally Posted by Lukie View Post
Try the original Final Fantasy for NES. Granted you can beat Garland (first boss) at level 1 with no danger, but there are a lot of bosses in the game that require good strategy and optimization. There are also a lot of dangerous random encounters. If you don't know the game extremely well you will die. A lot.

Set battle speed to 8 on the start menu.
Interesting. I did start playing that but I was emulating it and stopped using that computer soon after, so it fell through. I wouldn't mind going back to it. I'm currently playing FFIV on my phone. Older games tend to be good like that. Breath of Fire 2 was fucking great and fairly challenging, if I remember correctly. Chrono Trigger was relatively easier but the battles were always so damn fun for some reason. Marle's Haste always felt sooo cheap though. What else was good... Oh! Speaking of simple but challenging: Earthbound! Earthbound was a fucking fantastic game on all fronts.