What was the name of the game that had the "Cast 'Heal' on 'Undead' type enemies to cause damage" mechanic? I find myself trying it in every game I can just to see if it works.

Temple of Elemental Evil and Neverwinter Nights are two.

I have only seen that in the Final Fantasy games. There are others but remembering them all is difficult at best.

Quite a few games have used that mechanic. Off the top of my head most D&D based games use it, the Final Fantasy series and a fair number of other JRPGs use it, and the King's Bounty games used it as well.

Septerra Core had that.

I remember you could do it in Final Fantasy, and a few of the D&D's let you as well. Seems to be a lost concept on modern game makers.

I'm not talking about "Holy/Light/Life Magic v. Evil/Dark/Death Magic", I'm talking about an undocumented gameplay mechanic where a player accidentally placed the spellcasting cursor over an enemy skeleton or zombie while casting Heal, and it caused major damage, and the player was like "Whoa! I have to tell everyone!".


I think Final Fantasy VII (I know there are other FF's, but this is the only one I ever played) might be the one I'm thinking of. Especially with resuscitation items.

Warcraft III

Yeah, could instakill any enemy (even bosses) that had the "undead" tag with a "phoenix down". I'm pretty sure that mechanic is rather widespread in jRPGs.

I've seen it used in Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre too.

in general I wish there was more freedom to do what you wanted to who you wanted during battle, more often than not games now a days have got everything locked into offensive spells being only castable on enemies while defensive spells are locked to allies.

Didn't Septerra Core have it?

EDIT: ah... already mentioned above...

King's Bounty.

I wonder if you can do that in Skyrim? I seem to recall something about that, but maybe it was just specialized spells. Anyway, I do remember that from NWN quite well.