Final Fantasy Thread

[snes9x]

I picked up a repro copy of FFVI Advance, then I realized I lost my GBA charcger, so I had to order one off ebay.

 

[Tonberry]

I picked up a repro copy of FFVI Advance, then I realized I lost my GBA charcger, so I had to order one off ebay.

Man, that's a bummer. Your avatar feels really accurate right now.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Hey guys i made this fanfare collection it contatins FF1 to 9 fanfares expect 3 cuz i haven't played the remake and the NES one sounds bad , FF1/FF2 fanfares are the PS1 versions

I been using these for a while now as they very practical and can be heard from a distance , i had FF7 fanfare for 2-4 months as my notfication sound fun little side info i would sometimes do barret or tifa victory stance when i got a notfication and past month i had FF6 one everytime it played i would dance a bit its just that good

I plan to put one of these for an entire month and now im using FF5 fanfare as my notfication i did do the victory pose few times by now XD anyway i would like to share it with you.

FF2 and FF4 i found no audio for them on YT so i had to download the long version of the fanfare then cut it perfectly so it sounds right.

Enjoy.

 

[Pjira]

My favorite Final Fantasy games are X, V, and Tactics. Love those games!
It's been quite some time since I played Tactics so I might give that a replay sometime this year.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

My favorite Final Fantasy games are X, V, and Tactics. Love those games!
It's been quite some time since I played Tactics so I might give that a replay sometime this year.

V is indeed dope , tactics provides a fun twist on the usual FF formula but the PS1 version has few issues that i think were resolved in the PSP remaster.

 

[MasterEn]

i was listening to this song the other day while washing some dishes. it's pretty good.

 

[TheWanderer]

I didn't try NT but I did play 012 alot ,clocked like 150 hours back in the day ,best psp game
I heard that NT doesn't have the customization that 012 had ,bummer if true

 

[RageBurner]

IMO the only good things about NT are Ramza and the fact Bartz hassan actual moveset.

 

[Jon-Patrick-S]

Sometimes I think about trying out Dissidia NT, then I remember how insane the monetization of that game's dlc was

 

[RageBurner]

Yeah they went in really hard, while also oxymoronically doing very little with the actual game.

 

[Sheepy765]

i was listening to this song the other day while washing some dishes. it's pretty good.

Duuuuude, brentalfloss' final fantasy music is amazing. Zidane to Vivi might be my favorite when I'm feeling down in the dumps.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Final Fantasy 3 is whack looks like you can become a scholar marking the first ever appearance of the scholar model in the FF games the same model updated and used in 4 and 5.

So you can smack things with books.... A fantasy indeed!

Also its the first game to have moogles here is their first appearance ever

Summoners are called evokers here and summons have 2 uses , one offense which is indicated by black magic icon and defense/support indicated by white magic icon

The game has you cast toad/mini in certain sections toad on yourself that is same for mini , same for jobs this is first iteration of the job system and it kinda sucks lol , you need job points to switch between jobs and you need to remove all equipment.... To switch jobs square couldnt code auto equip like 5 so they just did this and its clunky.

Thing is you dont even know what a job does cuz there is no description so you have to guess like i didn't know what evoker was supposed to be it doesnt help some jobs are unlocked prior to having their equipment available.

This game also marks the first ever jumping dragoons since in FF2 the dragoon was gareth who didnt jump and also fought by sword instead of spear like the rest of the dragoon appearances.

FF3 is basically FF1 but Warriors of the light can speak which is nice


Oh and you get charcters following you kinda cool small thing you can also talk with them.

 

[Sheepy765]

I think Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and A2 are very underrated. They're not perfect games [Advance's law system has been the cause of much annoyance for me] but they're sweet. Marche's journey in Advance was touching and Luso's quest in A2 was fun.

While Advance isn't as dark as Tactics/WotL, the themes of escapism and having to learn to live with the ups and downs of the real world which I feel tends to be underappreciated or ignored. I'm still playing through A2 but from where I'm at so far it's just a fun isekai adventure with none of the weird fan-service that anime tends to have.

Also the soundtracks for both games are top-notch, I've listened to Echoes That Tie the Worlds and Putting Words Together at the end of every summer before school started up again, they perfectly encapsulate the feeling of being at the end of a long adventure and moving onto the next one.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Also its the first game to have moogles here is their first appearance ever

Which species are the Moogles btw? Small bears?

 

[Sheepy765]

Which species are the Moogles btw? Small bears?

They're like... cat-bear-bat things right?

 

[MasterEn]

Which species are the Moogles btw? Small bears?

they were suppose to be an entirely different species upon their initial creation. i found a wiki page that covers some of their background and there are a ton of pictures of all of the various times that they have appeared in the series and other series as well.
i found this bit on their about their name too.
"The moogle's Japanese name, Mōguri (モーグリ), is a portmanteau of the words for mole (土竜, mogura?) and bat (蝙蝠, kōmori?). "Moogle" is the localized version of Mōguri, losing the pun, though "moogle" has started to appear in Japanese sources as well."

Moogle | Final Fantasy+BreezeWiki

antifandom.com

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Mole... bats? Ok, they sure don't look like any moles I've seen. I guess that explains why they are always squinting.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Now I've learnt something interesting!

They are adorable with their closed eyes (which usually are a sign of gentle characters in anime as I heard) and their red noses (that may be their mole part).

 

[MasterEn]

Mole... bats? Ok, they sure don't look like any moles I've seen. I guess that explains why they are always squinting.

it seems like they took parts of each and mixed them together and made a few adjustments during the process. don't forget, they were originally meant to be ice nomads, wandering through artic tundras and surviving in harsh frozen weather; which would explain the white fur to help them blend into the environment. the claws would help with slippery surfaces, and wings for short jumps over cracks.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Which species are the Moogles btw? Small bears?

I have no clue just something unique to Final Fantasy

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Its done! Final Fantasy 3 is finished.

This marks the 10th Final Fantasy game i played with Final Fantasy 3 finished i have played everything from 1-9 tactics included through september 2024-april 2025 no month between this period passed without playing Final Fantasy.

So how is Final Fantasy 3 original version? Its crap what do you expect from a NES game? Its outdated by all means really.

There is a lot of jank less than i expected but still lots of jank the job system can be a bit weird and the the game forces you to use certain jobs at certain points which can be pretty annoying if you cant afford the job points.

Job levels i don't think do much? Other than add HP and to casters add more spell pointa something of a mini level up i think.

Of course graphics wise its trash , FF4 saw more coloring and a huge improvement in backgrounds , FF5 even became better with more stylish looks , and FF6 is the ultimate result that still has good 2d graphics to this day thanks to its art style.

Its worth mentioning this game uses the dwarf model or whats going to be the dwarf model in 4/5 it uses it for the viking job which i didn't really try some sort of pure tank job i think , its also in this game the dragoons get their signiture "jump" ability i won the saranoia boss fight by spamming jump as jump avoids damage kinda cool.

The game is like "alright" for most of it but becomes utter trash in the final section the dungeon is way too long and WHOM bright idea it was to make it so that xande casts meteor you have to climb 7 floors for that but first you need to climb down 7 floors to get the weapons needed.

The party facing a strange looking being notice the summoner design and the iconic horn.

Victory dance for the devout more like victory sneeze.

So you get these 2 jobs in the end the Ninja who is the ultimate warrior and the sage the ultimate caster

The team doing another victory dance as ninjas/sages

The final dungeon is horrid too many paths too many things to fight and very strong ones i went in with 99 HI and normal potions and i ran out of them in the dark world had to use 4 elixirs to regen spells back at least square understood that having 9 spells is stupid so they made it so that you can go up to 48 spells or 55 or more.... Even if you beat xande you will have to face the REAL enemy a could if darkness yeah thats the final boss a literal could how dissapointing

Its not even over cuz you lose first time against that cloud and chase it to the dark world here is a disaster in my opinion of game design so you can rush to the boss fight and lose real bad it misses everything you throw at it what you should do is enter the 4 chambers at each corner and kill the 4 bosses whom of which fire and earth can kill you easily after each fight a warrior of dark shows up to help you so do that while being constantly interrupted by random encounters cuz square thought its a good idea to reuse FF2 system which counts how many steps you walked and throws an encounter at you after x number of steps its bad real bad.

And this isn't even over after those crappy mini boss fights which are crap btw you fight the final boss who only has 1 ability yeah this the best square could come up with and the worst part is you can't even save!!!! This near 4 hours worth of dungeon can be deleted in an instant if you lose well thats not the case here im the man with the machine gun? No the man with the emulator i have the ability to save inside the dungeon and the ability to speed up game speed which was very useful cuz the game expects you be at least level 50~ something to enter the dark world well i wont grind all that it would take ages i fast forward and just fight like that in few minutes im 1 level up i get to level 55 this way in 30 minutes from 50 to 55.

Not to mention the worst ambush/back attack i seen in the series its like the light warriors have no situational awareness and oh if you win and forget to to check the formation you get the ones at the back be the front in the next fight what a disaster....

The game tried to have a story but not really , and cid looks like a wizard instead of a man who makes airships , it is true the series didn't really take off until FF4.

So all in all FF3 is worse than even FF2 the best NES game is FF1 and that says a lot.

Overall the NES trilogy is the weakest and worst games in the series its not until the SNES trilogy that you get actually decent games the NES ones feel like a protoype of sorts with 1/3 being gameplay protoype and 2 being story protoype.

0/10 game only thing good about it is the cover art

The party after defeating ms cloud of darkness

Oh and the stupid watermark hides the 4th name he is called SAMURO

Final note: the music is NES technology trying its best to sound like something it misses by a lot not until FF4 you get something that sounds like music.

 

[Mopeybloke]

I liked FF3 more than the two previous games, which I didn't even finish. However, I did only play re-releases. Not messing around with this NES stuff.

FF3 has better world map exploration IMO. The map opens in layers, dependent on the vehicles you've unlocked. In many games, you get an airship and can go anywhere. Not played much into FF2, but I have the impression odd-numbered FF games do it more often.

I could be wrong, but I think attack and magic multipliers go up with job levels in the NES version. Faint memories from watching HCBailly play the game.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I liked FF3 more than the two previous games, which I didn't even finish. However, I did only play re-releases. Not messing around with this NES stuff.

FF3 has better world map exploration IMO. The map opens in layers, dependent on the vehicles you've unlocked. In many games, you get an airship and can go anywhere. Not played much into FF2, but I have the impression odd-numbered FF games do it more often.

I could be wrong, but I think attack and magic multipliers go up with job levels in the NES version. Faint memories from watching HCBailly play the game.

Oh yeah i forgot the airships really no one in FF3 world can engineer an airship that goes over vast amounts of mountains nope..... They haven't figured the tech for that yet what you have is 2 airships one fast and one turtle speed worst yet is there is AIR RANDOM ENCOUNTERS and its so often that it becomes absurd i hate the shadow cave pathway cuz you have to go through some maze to reach it like just give me an airship that moves properly.... And chocobos arent very useful also they are white not yellow big L for square on this.

I played the original so i can understand what the remake improved its how it should be done instead of playing the remake first , thus i can value the remake and see it in different light as it builds and improves upon the OG version well i expect it at least i will take a break from Final Fantasy now probably play something else then try the remake as im just so done with FF3....

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

I played the NES version of FF3 and I can't agree with such a harsh review. It is definitively a flawed game and the last dungeon is dog shit but the game is perfectly playable and fun up until that point. The graphics are what was possible on the NES. I'd give it like a 5 out of 10.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I played the NES version of FF3 and I can't agree with such a harsh review. It is definitively a flawed game and the last dungeon is dog shit but the game is perfectly playable and fun up until that point. The graphics are what was possible on the NES. I'd give it like a 5 out of 10.

I know its a bit unfair cuz its outdated and made on the tech of the time and what it allowed , many confusing things made it way less better for example i forgot what mallet does.... What does this job offer? Etc there is no text that explains like FF4 and FF5 , i get this is a 1990 product im playing in 2025 its quite sad they didn't remake it to the PS1 like FF1/FF2 with the new tech it would be a lot better visually/audio wise but yeah the way airships work the shadow cave thing the final dungeon all zeroed everything else that made the game ok , not to mention that the game can fuck you over pretty easily like the water dragon temple and needing to buy spells and all that and i nearly softlocked myself in the elder tree boss luckily i had an elixir that saved the day , its stupid that there is no tents and if i switch from a caster to a melee job i lose the spell points and vice versa , i gotta say magic is a lot better than 1/2 and toad can be pretty strong.

Its just these small and big things that made it a 3/10 experince