Final Fantasy III

Hey people, I was kind of surprised that the first 6 Final Fantasy games have had HD remakes on the PlayStation Portable and mobile devices. Do you ladies and gentlemen like how there are HD remakes of classic Final Fantasy games?

Final Fantasy III Anime created by Ufotable and similar to FF3 Manga.

The Artstyle Takeuchi Takashi

FF3 Anime Heroes:

Shima (compared to Luneth and Muuchi)

Daigo (compared to Arc and Doug)

Kasu (compared to Refia and Melfi)

Gen (compared to Ingus and J. Bowie)

In case you missed any of my threads on it before, its Pixel Remaster for Steam has toned down the difficulty significantly for both versions. Its level of difficulty is quite reasonable in this version. So you can now enjoy FFIII without feeling frustrated.

A few things to be aware of though:

1.) This will be the 2D version, not the 3D version. So no Luneth, Arc, Refia, or Ingus, just four Warriors of Light you get to name at the start.

2.) The job system can require some level grinding if you switch jobs. Whatever your actual level (and going up a level or two does make a difference in battles there were difficult before), then, say, a Level 1 Black Belt does way less damage than a Level 50 Monk.

Of course, there are some jobs that are upgraded versions of others. Like Black Belt is an upgraded Monk. It might be worth it switching your Monks to Black Belts when you get them, and leveling them up a bit (once it goes up enough levels it will be stronger than a Monk of a higher level). At least job levels can go up relatively fast fighting weak enemies, unlike your main level.

3.) If you switch your job to a Mage, they won't be able to use magic until they rest at an inn or drink from a healing spring, as switching jobs will set their MP to zero.

4.) Cave of Shadows is still annoying if you can't one-shot every enemy there. They will multiply if attacked by anything that neither kills them nor is a Dark Sword.

5.) From the moment you examine Xande's mirror, is the Point of No Return, and there's no save points or backtracking from the World of Darkness. But you can be healed by the Dark Crystals here, and Cloud of Darkness just spams an attack that's easy to recover from if you have a Devout or Sage using Curaja on everyone every turn.

But you will want to backtrack from Eureka to the entrance to Crystal Tower to save there. (If you're able to get everything in Eureka, Ancients' Maze enemies are very easy, if you need to backtrack to the airship for any reason)

Also, Hein and Garuda can be beaten without a Scholar or Dragoon, respectively (though I hear even a Level 1 Dragoon can easily beat Garuda). Well, if your attack force mainly consists of Black Mages, maybe a scholar is necessary to know Hein's elemental weaknesses.

Rather than gamble with FFIX, I started a second playthrough of FFIII. I had intended to do this knowing stuff I didn't realize before.

1.) My monks have always seemed stronger than my Warriors with the best weapons (and first time my monk did the most damage to Hein) so my party now consists of three monks and a White Mage. And I know, after switching my job to any mage, I must replenish my magic at an inn or spring before I can use it.

2.) Switch my monks to Black or Red Mages before entering Nepto Temple so I can beat Giant Rat, as magic is required to beat him.

3.) Get Teleport at the first opportunity so I don't have to backtrack through that akursid Cave of Shadows, just teleport out after I beat Hecatoncheir and get Fang. I mean the Earth Fang, not FFXIII Fang and Hecatoncheir.

4.) Run from enemies in the Cave of Shadows. Even though my monks would be able to one-shot them all at this point, they give poor CP and gil.

5.) Level up my ninjas before the point of no return, which consists of the fight with Xande and the entire final dungeon.

As for progress... I just beat the Djinn in one turn, and am Level 12 now.

FFI - you control four random people, no one knows what gender they are or from where they came from, but you are famous already (and Princess Sarah wants to marry you already). You will probably have no idea where to go to at some point and will need to ask for help. You also started a cycle that later develops into Dissidia.

FFII - you'll always have the same three party members and you can't change their order(only row). The fourth party member will constantly change. You also are mere civilians and you defeat an emperor(everything normal for a Final Fantasy game). This is also the first game with a man for a white mage (and only actual white mage who is a man), the first dragoon, who so happens to be the first character with a surname, chocobos, and the start of the discriminating characters, featuring Scott as the first one. First appearance of Darth Vader concept.

FFIII(3D Remake) - four children put a being who can be whatever but decides to be a naked woman with snake friends to sleep. Two elderly people become some weird monsters. The start of the job class games. RIP Desch and Aria.

FFIV - a man is divided between staying with his childhood best friend or his brother. Decides to stay with both (and that's the main story. Change my mind). The esper's world make a girl grow faster. Two white mages and the youngest is the most useful one. The other just serves to start drama. Darth Vader pays a visit and he brings a cool dragon with him. The protagonist got adopted by Odin. Reevalute your life choices, just like every character does. Anna got discriminated. Once one sacrifice happens, everyone will start to sacrifice themselves every 5min. Brainwashes and manipulations will happen every second.

FFV - harem protagonist battles evil tree. Makes a friend that'll follow him everywhere from then on. Is still able to act gayer that many other characters. All dead people are remembered. Boko is the most important character of the game.

FFVI - Joker destroys the world. People are still alive. No main protagonist. Yeti and moogle as party members. Best general dies. Nightmares for everyone. Many dead girlfriends and boyfriends. Many families who aren't blood-related are formed. Best doggo lives here. Sabin actracts water wherever he goes. Ghost food is good and healthy.

FFVII - protagonist and antagonist just keep having their couple fights after antagonist decides to take a break. You get a vampire. You better drink the tea. Spy alert. Shinra and you won't work together, even tho y'all are after the same. Chocobo races and much more. Materia everywhere (it's not the one from Dissidia NT btw). Protagonist tries to forget his relation with antagonist by using other party members, the dead one included. Fails miserably.

FFVIII - people don't respect introverts. Cid isn't Cid, Selphie is. Comboy as a party member. Half-school, half-military environment. GFs are bad for memory (glad I'm single then). Time compression makes an appearance (because messing with time hadn't appear for a long time). School bullys side with antagonist. Rinoa just keeps atracting trouble. You draw magic (everyone must be great at drawing. Wonder where do they get so many crayons). Read books to get stronger. Raine and Julia get discriminated, specially Julia. The antagonist with less character development lives here (her character development is like 0.1%, and that's trying to make it seems like there is even any. Also, she's the first woman as an antagonist)

FFIX - protagonist hits on every girl he sees. The love interest isn't happy with that and runs away. Rat people and monkey people exist (plus many other half-animal, half-human races). Tails are useless. Mist is bad. Adoption is good. Another evil tree (because Exdeath wasn't enough). You space-time travel (Garland probably got here due to that). A planet is destroyed (for real). Antagonist wants to fit in, but no one helps. Gets mad and goes on a killing spree. Chocobos have dreams and play cards. The true Zodiac/Stellazzio story. You'll question your life, a lot. Cloud of Darkness decides to appear with a different form.

FFX - religion is everything. It is also supported with lies. Blitzball is the other religion. This one everyone loves and protects. Dead people can die and revive and still be dead. Dreams are real. Father issues (just like every other Final Fantasy game), but in this one it is a very explored thing. Dolls can be manipulated and no one knows how (Lulu is the true meaning of a black mage). Machina (not the FFType-0 one) are bad and good at the same time. Giant whale is threatening the world, summoners die just to put it to sleep. Some bastard just keeps defying death (like, dude, no one cares about you anymore. Just stay dead for Bahamut's sake). FFXIII's inspiration.

FFXI - start of the MMOs. Completely forgotten.

FFXII - the total embodiment of Star Wars. Side story of Tactis. Mere civillians defeat an empire (are we back to FFII?). Depending of the versions, you have job classes. You need a license for EVERYTHING (even to raise HP). Everyone becomes a hunter. Gambits are a thing (they're pretty easy tho). Antagonist's brother is on your side. Every dead person gets discriminated, specially Reks (that's what happens when you die at the beginning). Chibi version of characters and monsters exist (they're adorable). The law is bad (or at least the judges are).

FFXIII - go straight (you don't have much more to go). Faith is cruel. Getting chosen destroys your dating life. LGBTQ+ goes brrrrr. Cid gets discriminated (I think) (poor guy).

FFXIV - the talk of the world. Everyone forgot FFXI because of this one. Cat people exist and are adorable. You'll probably find an angry potato somewhere (and that is if you don't find many of them). The potato people don't like to be called potato people (well, I'm dead, I guess). Moving on, because I don't play MMOs and I don't care about them.

FFXV - a prince is forced to be straight while is going to pay a visit to his fiancé with his boyfriend and not blood-related gay parents. His actual father dies during the trip, and now you gotta turn back to pay the city a visit. Cid's daughter is the actual Cid (congrats Cindy). The future is now and flying cars exist. You can listen to other games musics (because cars have radios for that). The villain only wants revenge because his brother was an asshole (it's okay Ardyn, you have good motives). Because everyone loved the battle between eidolons in FFIX, FFXV also has one (but instead of non-elemental against Holy-elemental, it is Earth-elemental against Water-elemental). The prince's fiancé gets less character development than Cid from FFVIII (and that's just not to say Ultimecia) and completely forgotten (another one for the discriminated group). Ramuh is going to destroy the battle field. References everywhere (and I mean everywhere). There's 70% chance a battle will be interrupted by Ignis coming up with a new recipe. Gladiolus can get shirtless (and he is the only one who can do that). Ravus developed trust issues (good job Ardyn, you destroyed the poor man's life).

FFXVI - still in development, but I already love Clyde and the chocobos (specially the white ones)

Might take it at a slower pace but I started a Final Fantasy III playthrough on Steam, initially to see whether it was the 3D or original 2D version. It is the 2D version, which I never even researched as it wasn't released outside of Japan before now. (Also, it, II, and I'm guessing V and VI as well have original pixelated graphics, which could take some getting used to as I've never played a Final Fantasy with those graphic before even though those were the original original so nostalgia for long-time FF players) So it opens with four Onion Knights I get to name instead of Luneth, who gets Arc, Refia, and Ingus later on.

Other than that the story seems to be the same so far. But any tips I should know? Any missable windows to do something critical (like getting the Blood Sword in Final Fantasy II?). Looks like it follows the job system too, this could be practice for V once its release is final later this year (probably December, since they don't even have a month set it'll probably be way late). Do jobs level up to a lesser extent when you don't have them "equipped" or do they only level up when you fight with those jobs active, and how critical is leveling them up to defeating Cloud of Darkness and other bosses?

Maybe as I make progress I could ask what recommended levels for some parts are.

I know you can't buy Phoenix Downs, but I also heard recently there are other ways of reviving dead party members, like magic spells or drinking from the spring (it said "KO'd party members revived").

So far I've killed Land Turtle, obviously using that Antarctic Wind item as I don't think you can beat him without them. Unless you level grind a fair bit before him, I guess, since there's goblins and the spring to heal. I stopped at the village, looks like you can only save at world map.

A fun edit I made for Firion and Muuchi, matching their original Famicom sprites with their modern Dissidia outfits.

Is there a swift way to do this I already beat the game a few times but havent reached Lv 99 yet I wanna do this without resetting the game