Final Fantasy III was released initially only in Japan in 1990. It wasn't brought to America until a 3D type remake in 2006 came for Nintendo DS. Over the course of the game, you go through what you missed when the game was originally released in 1990. What does the DS game do well? What doesn't it do well? All that and more below!
Positives:
1. Presentation- Of course this was going to be a major step-up from the Famicom of 1990, but it was nice to see how well this game was presented on the Nintendo DS. The map, the cutscenes, the pause screen, battle graphics all are well done with still some sort of a retro feel. It's a good feel for the people to see a remade game that was originally done in 1990.
2. Music- The soundtrack is honestly well done. It goes from FF2 where there wasn't a ton to write home about to a really good soundtrack in FF3. I liked the boss themes, final boss team, overworld theme, and really most areas themes. The only one that would have needed work is the battle theme in my opinion but overall it was a well done soundtrack.
3. Straight Forward Story- Sometimes this works for the game, after the lackadaisical FF2 story as well, to go back to a more basic story like they did in FF3. It's about the crystals again, but this time you also have save light from darkness (Sounds like Kingdom Hearts eh?) so it was more straight forward and not as boring as FF2.
Negatives:
1. Massive Difficulty Spike on Last Boss- Okay I understand very well that this game was going to have a difficulty spike with the last boss, but this difficulty spike is honestly ridiculous. It took several tries and I would recommend a level well over 60 to beat this boss, but I finally beat it. For a game that is honestly pretty easy most of the way, it's odd that there is that massive spike for one boss.
2. No Major Character Growth- Yes there is some, but there isn't a major story where character growth was a thing. It is something that they start emphasizing in games going forward but I feel that they could have done this with FF3 in some way. This game just falls short in that. And in honesty it's disappointing.
3. Straight Forward Story.. but- There isn't much substance to it? It just is a story of go to this place and do that thing, no real flare or drama to it. In FF4, 5 and 6 there is always some sort of twist involved with this sort of thing, but with FF3 it is just go to the place, beat the boss, crystal and boom. This lends itself to be boring though straight forward.
Neutral:
1. Mail System on DS- I get that they wanted to put this in here. It's a side quest where there aren't many of those in this game and it does lead to having a job class that puts the others to shame but it also just feels you have to do everything to do everything and hope like heck you have enough luck to reach an enemy to progress the mail process to other characters. When I looked at the requirements for this, I was almost thinking holy moly to it. It's not something I am for or against by the way, if you like this, great but if not I don't blame you.
Rating:
Overall FF3 is a better game than that of FF2. It just offers more than the previous game but I can't put it much higher than FF1 just due to it being so mundane of a game with no major character growth. Overall, it's an above average game that is miles better than FF2. Personally I would rate it at a 6.5 out of 10. Below is where I rate Final Fantasy games (1-15 with the exception of 11-14 as I haven't played/completed them) after completion of those games.
1. FF VI
2. FF X
3. FF IX
4. FF V
5. FF VII
6. FF XV
7. FF IV
8. FF VIII
9. FF3
9. FF I
10. FF II
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