Woo hoo! Finally, someone with sense! > Graphically, the final unique addition to the Famicom game line-up is > not much different from its counterparts. Like Final Fantasy II, it > features bigheaded, super-deformed characters and has fairly cartoony > enemies. It does have more sprites, which in turn leads to less > repetitive looking dungeons. I think Hain (Hyne) looks totally cool--way better than the Dark Cloud... > The sound and music makes leaps and bounds over its predecessors. > Final Fantasy III makes the absolute most of the Nintendo Entertainment > System's sound chip, featuring approximately forty or so high quality > tunes. Gone are the annoying blips and bleeps that plagued Final > Fantasy I and II's menus. The sound effects, ranging from the applause > of contented bar dwellers to the cries of excited sheep, don't sound > very close to their inspirations, but the effort deserves credit and the > silliness actually adds a sort of humorous aspect to the game. Heh, those turdy sheep in Gisahl (SP?). They rule. > Also, the gameplay was so simplified from FF2 that the game was easy! And short too! > This was the first game to feature a full-fledged "Job System"! > Though getting its inspiration from the first game's class system, Final > Fantasy III took that idea to the extremes, creating a very, VERY > original new gameplay engine that would be reused later in the series' > history (and quite well, I might add). Basically, you changed jobs > using spiritual "capacity" points, of which you could only hold > two-hundred, fifty-five at any one given time. Each job featured its > own stats and skills, which would be bestowed upon the character > immediately. The only problem I had with the job system was that many > jobs are merely upgraded versions of existing jobs. Yeah, that kinda sucked.
Finally that gap we all had in our collection is filled, we’ve waited a long time for this game, and even better is that it’s been remade into an up-to-date 3D version for the DS. The games opening sequence is majestical... Read Full Review
if any of you remembered playing the original Final Fantasy III (not Final Fantasy III which is supposed to be VI for SNES) for the NES, then this is the remake of that game. The game was redisigned with DS graphics, an... Read Full Review
