Level grinding

Level Grinding is a fan-term used to describe walking around the world map, and fighting enemies, for the sake of leveling up. The point of this method is to strenghthen up your team, usually for an upcoming boss. Level Grinding may also be called Farming, which is usually used for more specific cases, like AP Farming or Experience Farming.

Being a long-time method in Roll-Playing Games, Level Grinding as come with a lot of negatice reaction. Many reviewers criticise Role-Playing games that need excessive level grinding. In early games Role-Playing games, Final Fantasy being one of the series, Level Grinding was almost mandetory. Since then, Grinding as been somewhat desguised as other in-game methods. Fianl Fantasy XII, for example, introduced the Hunt system, which many gamers use as a way to Grinding, and as a way to earn variouse items.