10 Video Games That Secretly REWARD You For Cheating

It's fairly standard for status-effect spells to be useless in the Final Fantasy series, outside of very specific circumstances. This is, understandably, most true for the Death spell. After all, there wouldn't be much of a game if you could just instantly kill anything with one spell, right? For this reason, most enemies have an inherent immunity to it.

Buffs, however, have always been extremely useful in the series. Among those is invisibility, which makes your characters immune to physical attacks but more susceptible to magic attacks. It's a classic trade-off of risk and reward. What a treat, then, that same effect applies to enemies too.

Cast vanish on your foe, making them immune to physical attacks, but weak to all magic. That's ALL magic, removing whatever immunity checks existed for the enemy. Then cast Death for an instant kill on just about any enemy in the game.

While the feature has been addressed to varying degrees of success in later releases, in the original SNES version, you could cheese your way through the nearly the entire game with this exploit.