There's a few pros and cons between vanilla and zodiac version of the game. Biggest con is they remove the damage limit in the zodiac version. In some way bosses are easy. There's also an op range weapon with attack power of 250. Good thing is the trial mode. FFXII have one of the hardest boss fight in all of the series. It's. The final trial stage which is the 5 judges. (reverse gambit strategy will not work). Even tho I have play a patch version of FFXII zodiac age, I'll still buy this just for the HD remastered. Good game to play.