I have been playing VI on the emulator mostly in fast forward (600% rather than 100%) and it has still taken me ages to get to level 50. Fuck knows how I spent so long on the Playstation getting all the characters to level 99.
Aye, you always wanna level to be stronger but when you do the game is just to easy. Trying to get Exaclibur II in FF IX was one of the hardest things i ever done. Gettin to that point in disc 3 in less that 11 hours was near impossible. Your SO under leveled EVERY fight was like a boss fight.
Didn't even both trying. I struggle in a lot of fights if I can't brute force my way through them.
I'll clear a certain location barely surviving then remember that I could kill al the opponents easily by giving them a phoenix down as they are undead.