Final Fantasy I and II Are Coming To the iPhone and iPod Touch 142
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jonasvdc tips an announcement by Square Enix that Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy II are being developed for the iPhone and the iPod touch. The graphics and UI have been modified to look and run better on the touchscreen devices, but everything from Cecil to the classic Black Mage is clearly recognizable. The announcement did not include any information on a price or release date.
Um, Cecil? (Score:5, Insightful)
Cecil isn't in any of the screenshots...because he isn't in either of the games mentioned. That's Final Fantasy IV, which has been known by that name in every release except for the US SNES version.
I can see being confused by the renaming, but how do you see a character in the screenshots who just isn't there?
Re:Exclusive? (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't mind exclusive deals, but it'd be nice if they wore off after a few months.
All exclusive deals wear off no later than 1,151 months.
I personally never played any of the FF series, only because I hadn't heard of it until like 7 or 8 came out, and I thought I'd have a lot of backstory to catch up with (though people have reassured me that I really don't).
Final Fantasy is a brand, not a series. With a few exceptions (e.g. Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2), each game has nothing to do with the last except being a role-playing video game made by Square.
Re:Question for anyone with an iPod Touch (Score:1, Insightful)
No. Very few iPhone games are any good -- some puzzlers are OK, Galcon is addicting, but apart from that almost none of the action games are worth playing at all. The touchscreen UI is awful for gaming, as is the motion sensing stuff.
I have a jailbroken device with the codesigning disabled, and I know how to use Google, so I've played almost everything worth trying. Most of it is crap.
Big name EA type games are almost all universally terrible, with bad load times, OK graphics, and untested gameplay. Some of the indie games are decent, but not worth plunking down hundreds of dollars for hardware on.
Just get a DS and an R4.
Re:Exclusive? (Score:3, Insightful)
Considering the quality of 3D back in the PS1 days, it was a mistake to move the series to 3D then. I know that it would have eventually happened, I'm just questioning the timing of the move.
Yeah I can see your point there. Games like Castlevania SotN showed what a 2D powerhouse the Playstation was, and a 2D FFVII would have been beautiful. Though some things like the change of perspective to look down the field of battle as Leviathan's gigantic tidal wave towering over the enemies that a moment ago towered over you were pretty awesome and hard to recreate in 2D. On the other hand, that was what introduced the strategic tradeoff between the damage a Summons would do to the enemy vs the time wasted watching the unskippable summon animation for the 1000th time.
I agree VI was the best in the series, but I don't think VII "jumped the shark". It was a good game. Even if they did go to 3D perhaps prematurely.
Re:Exclusive? (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah. That's why nobody liked Symphony of the Night. Oh, wait, it's one of the most beloved games in the Castlevania franchise.