Overleveling vs Underleveling

[Zero Kirby]

Usually, though, the spells you're missing out on are just stronger, more costly variants of previous skills. For example, Black Mages. You'll know Fire, Thunder, and Blizzard, all costing 5 MP by the regular time of reaching a boss. But if you put in the time, you'll level up enough to have access to the more costly Fira, Thundara, and Blizzara, all costing 15 MP, which do more damage, but also cost more Mp. ...

again, you're over-simplifying and ignoring important variables.

I'm using simple examples for the sake of showing the basic effect of underleveling as I mentioned before, which is prolonging what would otherwise be a short battle, even by normal leveling standards. Another great example of this would be Garland from Final Fantasy 1. By the time you normally reach him, the battle would be over in like 3-4 turns. But then you have the people who want a "challenge" and reach him at level 1, and thus it'd take like 12 turns or so. That's just dragging the thing out.

And overlevelling isn't dragging things out unnecessarily, I suppose?

And I noticed you ignored my examples that weren't Final Fantasy, good job, lad, oh wait, I didn't even have a Final Fantasy example whoops

I admitted that I thought Final Fantasy and Pokemon would require more luck so it's not entirely like I was disagreeing with you.

You also have to remember, it doesn't necessarily take three times as many turns just because you don't have the three-times spells. Your health and defenses are lower too meaning you have to manage potions and party members much more effectively. You also won't get as much money which makes obtaining and managing said resources more difficult.

You keep on going "it just makes the battles longer" which is true, you just don't seem to be understanding why