I think Final Fantasy III is visually fantastic. I’d be remiss if I closed without addressing the most controversial element of these remasters: the re-imagined look. Although the story might be a little simple, never reaching the anime-as-hell heights of Final Fantasy IV, I still found it engaging enough to keep me moving. Once the plot to destroy the world is revealed, it’s nothing new, but there is more heart and humanity here than I was expecting. First, there are a plethora of excellent NPCs who help you along the way, and the town-to-town storytelling is pretty engaging. Sounds just like the first Final Fantasy, right? It kind of is, but there are many little things that distinguish the story here from other earlier RPGs. Thus, you travel from your town and discover that the world is in peril. You start as four young people who stumble upon a crystal that imbues you with unnatural combat abilities, and of course, you become the four Warriors of Light. Much to my surprise, Final Fantasy III’s story is a step up from its predecessors as well, and not just because it heavily inspired the fabulous story in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. They were obviously having a great time playing with the form, which is a step up from previous games in the series.Īs a DRG main in FFXIV, this fight brought a smile to my face. It’s a little bit much, but the different ways the developers experimented with exploration throughout the game were fun. It’s almost like someone told the development team that one of the coolest parts of the first game was the moment you got the airship, so they came up with different ways to destroy your ship over and over again so you could get another one or a more souped-up version. It does this in part because you get not one but five different airships throughout the game. Final Fantasy III is slightly more linear than other games of the time, though it might not be exactly clear where to go, but the game cleverly blocks off areas you aren’t meant to reach yet. You have to talk to NPCs to figure out where you should go next. To progress, there are some opaque event triggers. Otherwise, Final Fantasy III’s gameplay is mostly what you’d expect from an NES RPG. It doesn’t make the game easier, necessarily, but it is less punishing than the original, and I am grateful for that. There’s also a mini-map in each dungeon (and on the world map) which shows where all the treasure chests are and helps you figure out which hidden path gets you through the room. You can sprint in towns and dungeons as well. Particularly in the very long final dungeon, this can be an absolute lifesaver, so you don’t have to run all the way through it again if you wipe. First, there’s an autosave function that puts you at the start of any room you die in. Luckily, in the Pixel Remaster version, there are plenty of helpful quality of life improvements.
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In the original, this could be particularly troublesome since there were no save points in the long dungeons, which are chock full of hidden pathways and dead ends. Combat is your standard early Final Fantasy turn-based affair, but sometimes your ability to act before or after the boss will determine whether you live or die.
Some bosses will spam moves that take off more than ⅔ of your health every turn. Unless you want to grind for a long time, you have to play around with jobs anyway because Final Fantasy III is hard. There are no cross-class skills, though your job impacts your stat growth while leveling. Jobs level up separately from your character, and the higher the level, the more powerful they become. Unlike previous versions, you can change classes without having to expend any currency. You unlock more, like Dragoon, as you progress as well as basic-class upgrades, like Knight and Sage. Early in the game, you have access to a few classes, such as Fighter and White Mage.
While the first Final Fantasy game offered you some freedom in your jobs at the beginning of the game, Final Fantasy III is the first entry where you’re allowed to change them as the game goes on.
The first area where you can feel the developers stretching their legs is the job system. Although some of the experiments bog down the gameplay, overall, the many quality of life improvements - both small and large - in the Pixel Remaster version make it mostly a success and surprisingly fun to play. You can feel Hironobu Sakaguchi and the rest of the team having a blast playing around with their series. Final Fantasy, of course, has always been known for experimentation, even as far back as Final Fantasy II.įinal Fantasy III is no exception. All of that is true, but when I go back and play games from this era, the thing that strikes me is experimentation. Conversations about NES RPGs are often about the wrong things.
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