| I clear rooms since most exp and gold comes from battles. I use the standard attacks and only use the special attacks if I absolutely need them usually. I keep as many of the cheapest potions (as in cheapest per hit point restored ratio) there are that I can reasonably carry instead of forking out the additional cash for the more powerful ones.
Then I save my money to buy or upgrade the ridiculously powerful weapon (such as the 65k gold demonic katana in chrono trigger) or upgrade the weapon with the most abundancy (such as handguns in resident evil) to make the most of the money I spent.
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Although in games like Paper Mario, you're better off skipping as many enemeis as you can and only fighting the ones you encounter so that eventually you get 4 or 5 star points per battle instead of say 2 or 3 if you cleared every room thus far.
And lastly if I'm lazy and impatient then I will at times resort to skipping battles or unnecessary areas. |