When I look at games like Final fantasy, I play like Himechan. First time I go straight from start to end, focus on the story. 2nd time around ill try to find all the small thingies. In those games you usually come to a point where you finally get acces to ALL areas and the fastest transportation device, where all shops offer the best items in the game (for example in FF7 its DISC 3 when you are supposed to head into the Northern Cavern and slay Sephi). I try to find that point the first time through, and go up till there during my 2nd run through and spend time seaching around the entire world for "extra's and sidequests". 3rd time around I use a walkthrough
. I usually play final fantasy games from start to finish around 10-15 times before I get bored..(with FF7 I never got bored hehehehe, played that from start to finish untill the cd's became to messed up to play..I've never managed to get ALL extra's (like FFX's ultimate weapons) without using a walkthrough
...I just suck eheheh