Materia System

[Bizzaro]

I thought the Materia System was an excellent way to learn skills and level them up. There were alot of Materias and alot of oppurtunities. What did you all think about it?

[Razorblade Kiss]

It was cool.
Even though it took a long ass time to level up your materia.

[Bizzaro]

Yea it did. That was the good thing about going through after you beat it the first time. You knew what you wanted to level up so that made it easier.

[Sixthcrusifix]

I loved it because ANYONE could do it, unlike ff9 where certain people learned certain things. But it too way to long fo some of them.

[Bizzaro]

Lol, yea. But some characters were made for certain Materia.

[Sixthcrusifix]

how so. do you mena certain characters learned materia better or something?

[Bizzaro]

Lol, No I mean Clous was made more for the command materias such as the double hit ones, Aries was more of the white magic Materia. And Tifa was for black magic.... That is just my opinion though.

[Dusk]

It was really good when you could get the "All Summon" "All Magic" "All Commads"?
materia. The materia system is the best system I think.

[Bizzaro]

Indeed it was... You could get those from trading in the item you get for beating emerald weapon, correct?

[Dusk]

The Golden Harp, I think it was

[Bizzaro]

Hmm.. yeah. I believe so. And it was fairly easy to obtain.

[TriggerHappi:D]

Yeah, I think the materia system was one of the best, especially the way your materia got stronger just like your characters. I also thought it was brilliant the way some armor and materia linked materia together to alter their effects. For example, linking "Fire" and "All" would make your fire magic hit all enemies. Ingenious! And Bizzaro, I get what you mean by certain characters are meant for certain materia, Aeris is a natural healer, so you would give her the white magic materia rather than give them to Barrett.

[Dark Sephiroth]

The materia system is the greatest its good because you can equip what you want and it makes ff7 look more advanced than it really is.

[One Winged Angel]

i didn't really like materia system cause to use them you had to give up strength and life to use them and more powerful more it requires I liked draw system it was easier and better than materia but that is my opion.

[Derek]

I agree somewhat with you One Winged Angel. I mean I love the Draw system as well, drawing magic from enemies made it much easier because the materia made you sacrifice certain things to use them. On the other hand though it made it a bit tougher, you had to improvise in a way, rather than drawing 100 cures from enemies, a bit too easy.

[a_nirvana_fan]

The Materia system is the best system ever used in Final Fantasy, you dont just learn abilities from them, you can also combine Materias to make something cool such as Added Effect with Poison.

[Swornd]

I really liked this system, it worked nicely, and once you got some of the better materia you could make some interesting combinations and once you had them sorted made ruby and emerald easy as anything to kill. Also all materia leveled so dam fast and you could sell it for enough gil to last you for the game.

[Zidane007nl]

O.o, I never posted in here...

The materia system is the best system I've ever seen in a Final Fantasy game. Collecting and mastering them all takes quite a lot of time, but is really worth it. The 'All' materia is my favorite. If you mastered it you can sell it for 1.4 million Gil! :P

[Yuna_03]

i was fasinated by the materia system i liked it

[Dark Sephiroth]

i liked how whatever accesory you had equipped had different materia slots and defence power. Plus the fact that you can level up materia and create new materia of the ones youve mastered.

[PROGUY]

It's a great way to master magic. I agree with all of you that it's good.

[Night Walker]

i wish i can play with summons either..

[PROGUY]

Summons? O.o
It's harder to get than you think to get some of those summon materias. You can't buy 'em and you can only get each summon materia once.

Let me give you an advice about summon materias:
DON'T SELL ANY SUMMON MATERIAS!!! (unless you master 'em)
Keep 'em for later use.

[Hyori]

Mmm...the Materia System. I love it. I just had no idea KoTR existed until a few months or so ago...but, actually using them in battle and everything was quite enjoyable. The HP/STR/XX penalty for equipping some of them kind of sucked, but, I suppose it balanced out the game. I hardly ever used melee attacks toward the end of the game anyhow, but the HP penalty was still harsh.

The system is the best. The Sphere Grid system came second, in my book.

[Skywalker]

In my opinion, the materia system was by far the best magic/skill system of any of the ff series. Allowing any character to learn any skill/magic and increase the level of the magic simply by leveling and not having to wait for an advance in the storyline.

[Beastwithin7]

A simple but very effective system and u could conter the penalties with more materia. There was something to help every action. It was only used in ff7 though it died out like the grid and drsssphere systems.