Loved Final Fantasy 1 and thought Final Fantasy 2 was hard and sucked and after playing Final Fantasy 3 I am sure that is the one that sucks the most and now I am stuck due to my ship being destroyed and I can't go and buy potions. The fact that they give you new jobs but vendors don't sell suitable starting gear for them is stupid.
I bought The pixel remaster for my iPhone. I’ve been having a blast with the xp boost option. Grinding a bit here and there and blowing away the enemies. It’s a solid 2 weeks for fun for 12 bucks! Well worth it!
The only problem I had with this game was the advancement of the storyline. . . I got so lost trying to figure out how to move the story along that I was an absolute demon by the time I figured out what went wrong. . . Some advancements in the story required interactions I had to guess at and wander aimlessly talking to folks I never thought of to unlock things . . . . It was incredibly complicated
I’m playing through it yet again right now It’s kind of weird. I’m currently homeless and for the first time in my life I have no friends either. It’s very lonely and stressful Luckily I bought all the games for switch before I was homeless so I have them to keep me from going crazy
Have two characters cast berserk, one cast blink, and one cast haste on everyone to start, no weapons go unarmed and you'll punch your way to the final boss.
It does make sense and its not a waste of time to level up the character that leave your party in the GBA and PSP version with the souls of rebirth sidequest witch is one of the best and very satisfactory after you end the normal game.
Freelancer and Mime is OP once you master other jobs, as they get the passive abilities and stat bonuses from those. This makes it so Mime isn't just good for 3 different ability slots, but it's super OP from all the passive abilities and stat bonuses, and can equip anything.
I have platinumed Final Fantasy I, II , and III. I am currently in the process of doing Final Fantasy IV, which has been on the backburner for around 6 month as I was burned out on Final Fantasy games due to doing them one after the other. Think I am going to pick it back up and finally finish Final Fantasy IV for the first time and get that platinum.
FF2 is my favorite game in the series. I want a FF2 Artistic Revision that actually looks like Amano's designs to the extent that is possible. But also I like to see other artists involved too. Although I think all the FF1-6 could use an Artistic Revision I feel like FF2 would benefit the most from it. I know the story probably feels extremely basic but to me it is an absolute classic. People will say the story line is just Final Fantasy meets Star Wars because sure both are about rebels vs the the empire but the mood is entirely different. FF2 is bleak. Or at least I felt like that was the mood that they were going for. Although that's probably true for a lot of FF games I felt like that sense of melancholy really began in FF2 while FF1 has a much more whimsical adventurous feeling to it. So while I would want the original plot to remain with the orphans joining the Wild Rose Rebellion I also want the story expanded. Particularly for the temporary fourth party members. I believe the core theme of FF2 is about struggling with loss. I think it would be great if the longer you play as the temp 4th player the more destruction the Palamecia Empire causes so you're racing against the clock but the clock is also ticking down for your fourth player. I think a voice acting option would really help. One major possible addition that I think would add a lot of depth to the story is while you sleep as your party you wake up as Leon while he is a Dark Knight of Palamecia and you get to play as the villain maybe even form a team with the despicable Borghen and walk down a path of violence and destruction in order to gain favor from the emperor and be bestowed new dark powers. The twist is that while you do gain new powers the destruction that you cause means you lose out on gaining other powers and items when Leon turns good.
It definitely has some ambitious ideas that don't work as intended and the main three characters are pretty dull (although I do like Firion's general design) but I think the last couple iterations like Dawn of Souls and Pixel Remaster elevate this to being a decent (but flawed) game. Hot take but I like this game more than the technically superior but very on rails FF IV.
The Pixel Remaster was the first version where that was finally good. It's still the most grindy one, but the auto-battle helps immensely here. I'd just equip my characters with weak versions of whatever weapon I wanted to build up and let it do its thing. Meanwhile, have my spellcasters work on healing or buffs of something. It proved quite effective.
You can't call yourself a real fan until you play it. That's not really meant to be a "No True Scotsman" thing or nothing. But it's just that it's not the horse I'd suggest you ride on your first rodeo, you get me? The Pixel Remaster is the best version, but you should play the 8-bit versiom first just to see what it was really like. There's no shame in using walkthroughs. That game came with tons of booklets, maps, amd guides. Pretty much everyone who played it back in the day had SOME kind of help.
Common misconception, white wind does not fully heal the party. It heals the party for the amount of HP the caster has at the time. So if you cast it with 100HP, you are only healing for 100.
I love Anthology. I prefer the job class system and being able to change jobs focusing on leveling only 4 characters. As much as I love the story of 6, having so many characters to manage leveling and learning magic etc can be a pain for me. I love both games for different reasons. <3
FF2 for Famicom was translated into English, put on a NES cart and even advertised in Nintendo Power. The only reason it wasn't released on the NES was the system was at the end of its life cycle. Nintendo of America made the decision not to release it or 3 in North America.
There was a reason for these older games being far more difficult in the older days of the NES/SNES..... Cost of the games. Final Fantasy on the NES was $75.00 on the NES new for me. VI was $79.00 on the SNES new. (So please no more complaining about paying that much for all 6 of them) What this meant was not a whole of ability to buy games all the time for parents. You either got the new game for Christmas or your birthday. These games needed to last. SIDE NOTE: Pixel Remaster IS back to the base game. But is still done in the PS1 FWD "Easy Mode" release. This game was 10x more difficult on the NES. 10x more expensive to get things. Hardly any of the items in this game are in the original. And 10x more level grinding. Seriously in XIII I could stand at a save point, and see the save point ahead and behind me. WAY TOO EASY. I do love these. I finished I, half way through VI, and in the middle of V. Pixel Remaster are indeed the closest to the originals I have seen.....without putting my originals in.
For me FF3 is the Game that lead me to give the franchise a second try. My first game was ff7 and I hated everything about it! (Fairly spoken haven't progressed any far) but the characters and the aesthetic of the world, the color schemes overall didnt seem to match and I struggle to play games that arent visually appealing. One day I got bored and got to play ff3 and DAMN I was in!
I've played the Famicom version of this game at least 7 times over the years. For the time it was made, the ideas in this game were just incredibly revolutionary. The real problem was it was rushed out the door. I know a lot about how the stat leveling works and have spent some time thinking about how I would have solved the balance issues. If FF2 had been given the time to be properly polished, it could have really changed the genre. EXP/level systems may have been the uncommon one instead
13:47 - spoiler alert... I named him "Butts". Not even "Butz" as unofficial translations would call him. Just... "Butts" ... and Butts shall have to live with this shame through my entire playthrough. Which may take months.
