It's a solid game for what it is, but many fans concur that every effort to make for a more complex story and multifaceted gameplay system resulted in a blander retelling and more constrained combat.Įnter Pixel Remaster, and if there's one mainline Final Fantasy we can say with personal certainty is best-played in these 2021/2022 versions, it's FF3. It wasn't until 2006, some 17 years later, that the West got a taste of the game, albeit in a heavily modified, full-fledged remake for Nintendo DS. In its native Nintendo Entertainment System format, it never released overseas. Dawn of Souls' FF1 technically lacks the one more dungeon added in Anniversary, making for a close call, but we have too soft a spot for the more pixelated look on the GBA.įinal Fantasy 3's an interesting case study. With all that content nowhere to be found in Pixel Remaster, we recommend the earlier stuff if it's an option. And Dawn of Souls in particular is quite literally two games in one, as it bundles the first two installments, including a Final Fantasy 2 with a strong bonus dungeon of its own. That's especially painful in the first Final Fantasy, which, between Dawn of Souls and Anniversary, had added enough extra dungeons to feel like two games in one.
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The Pixel Remaster series has a grievous wound to it, after all, and it's the lack of bonus content added to most of the games in versions past the first and prior to this newest line. But that doesn't always mean they're the best way to play overall, a fact (or, admittedly, an opinion) which applies to the first two games more. It's a worthy way to play any of these entries for the first time, with great graphics, better-than-ever soundtracks, and more.
The recent Pixel Remaster series covering the first six mainline Final Fantasy games is, in many ways, superb.
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