Hi I'm new to this forums. Anyways I noticed that the people in Fourside are very strong, like Extra Cranky Ladies or Annoying Lectorers are on steroids. I mean I understand the taxis being powerful, and being more powerful than Cranky Ladies, Annoying Old Party Men, Unassuming Local Guys, New Age Retro Hippies, and Insane Cultists. But the cops? You'd think there would be a reason to call themselves the "Mighty Onett Police Force" but no, they have like 90 HP why the residents of Fourside have about 200 HP and can do like 40-70 more damage than the cops. Heck, Captain Strong isn't even that "strong" with 150 HP and only doing about 40 damage to Ness who was like level 8-10 at the time you fought him where as enemies in Fourside could potentially do maybe about 100 damage at Late 20s-Early 30s Ness and friends. And Frank, oh god that guy is pretty pathetic because he might have 70-80 HP does like maybe like 30 damage with KNIVES, I can understand how his gang was weak because it was mainly made up of punk kids.Everdred kinda makes sense though at least, Mr. Carpainter though just seemed WAY to powrful for his appearance, I mean I understand doing heavy damage with the Crashing Boom Bang attack, but he has maybe up to 160-180 HP. Please reply.Thanks

It doesn't really make sense if you think about it. But Fourside is further in the game than Onett and Twoson, so of course the enemies are going to be stronger.

The further you are in the game the stronger the enemies get, same thing applies to most turn based RPGs. It doesn't make a lot of sense but that's RPG logic for you. I like it that way since the game gives you a fair challenge and the later parts of the game tend to be somewhat harder.

Never thought about it really, but still, think about it:

Fourside is a big city, and if you've ever been to a big city, chances are the crime rate's through the roof, and most likely it's every man for himself. So what's to stop the people of Fourside getting tougher to accommodate the rough lifestyle of the big city? Plus I always found the Onett police calling themselves mighty, since they couldn't even handle a bunch of punk kids, and actively tried to gang up on Ness. They seem more concerned about blocking roads than they do stopping crime, which is why I have a little joke to myself when whenever I start acting out the characters, I always imagine them getting a less restful sleep in Onett because the police are too busy blocking roads every night.

But anyway, Fourside has a heck of a lot more to deal with than just some punk kids holing themselves up inside an arcade, and the citizens and police adapt accordingly.

Foursidians eat their spinach!

I am with you here about the Onett police force. They were just compensating for their lack of strength by blocking the roads while allowing other problems to go unresolved.

They're drunk on alcohol/coffee (depending if you live in Japan or anywhere else) and being drunk makes you tougher to bring down.

And too tough to back down