Worthwhile entertainment for FF fans

This wasn’t a great game, but I got my entertainment value out of it. If you like the FF series and you are driven to play all of them and see how they evolved, you can’t go wrong here. It’s pricier than many games, but there’s no ads or in app purchase nonsense, just straight up play time. It took me about 40 hours to play through. The story line is dreadful, the animation is decent but the characters all look like they are 5 years old, it’s laughably bad. But the battle is entertaining, the job system is an interesting evolution, overall it was satisfying to play through and beat the cloud of darkness. I’m playing on an iPhone 8 and it was rock solid stable, no technical issues.

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Update: where are all these one star reviews coming from?! After all the updates this and every other FF title still runs perfectly! Don't listen to the trolls So I beat this game a while back as a part of my crusade to purchase and beat all FF games on the App Store. This...game...is...a...masterpiece!!!!! I LOVE the old school polygonal pixely 64-graphics. It brings me back to the days of playing Zelda on my N64. Not to mention Quest 64...the best turn-based RPG ever for the N64. Needless to say this is without a doubt the most amazing Final Fantasy game I've ever played! By far the best and most enjoyable part of this game is the sophisticated job class system, where you can change each party member's job class at any time during the game as much as you want with a total of 23 classes becoming available to you throughout the game. The boss battles are EPIC and unforgettable. Probably the best of all the Final Fantasy games, with the final boss being one of the hardest son of a guns I've ever faced! Everything about this game is so incredibly rewarding, from beating that tough boss that's been slaughtering you to shreds to the mind blowing story line. It's the best 16 bucks you could ever hope to spend in the App Store!!!❤️❤️❤️ Next stop...Final Fantasy IV!!!!!!!

Great game and even now has much more potential

The game has a very captivating story, though the story isn’t really portrayed in the best way, the plot for an rpg like this is very good, honestly a remake to this game in the style of final fantasy XV but still keep the same battle menu and encounter style as the remake/ original, or make the play style a little similar to secret of mana. The beginning CGI movie looks amazing too it fills the player with many emotions with the animations and music together, a movie about this game wouldn’t be a bad idea, especially being that the characters in this game don’t really get the attention they deserve within the final fantasy franchise. Playing this game and going through the story and really diving into the game always puts a smile on my face and thinking about the circumstances of the protagonists and their development throughout the game is also nice to think about, sadly you don’t really get to see that much with the game but still to think about it is still heart warming. Honestly just a really good game with a lot more potential

Onion Knight armor and weapon drop rate...

Played the game from the NES and DS. My main issue, is the drop rate for the Onion Knight Armor gear and their weapons. The Red Dragon drops the Armor Piece. The Green Dragon drops the Onion Gauntlets. And the Yellow Dragon drops the Onion Helmet. All of the dragons also has a CHANCE to drop Onion Sword (extremely rare) and the Onion Shield (Rare). The drops rates for all of them are HORRIBLE I spend days and days; weeks and weeks; months and months; even years! For over a year I only gotten the Onion Shields. And nothing else. The drop rate should increase more! Having the drops rates like 2-5% chance is just bad! All I keep getting is Elixir, like seriously. And when I finally get something from Onion's; it's an Onion Shield. At least boost up the drop rate for the Onion Armor and weapon to 25-30% drop rate. Because this 2-5% chance drop rate is annoying! I have many hours on this game to complete the set for my characters and still nothing. Please! Make the Onion Knight Armors and Weapon drop rates at least to 25-30% drop rate! I mean, finding the dragons are hard enough to find; so why make it 3x harder to find the complete set for the Onion Knight class. Please, increase the drop rate for the Onion Knights Gear and Weapon. Please.

It’s pretty good; minor improvements needed

I think it’s pretty good, but I wish the devs would have played Doom and Destiny to get an idea of the best way to create controls for a tablet/phone. It is annoying when crossing the millions of bridges when my character is sprinting into the corner of the bridge and has the hardest time going around, despite my movements trying to get them there. Which I find weird because I have it set to walk, not run. I guess that option is broken? Overall, good work, but I’m afraid that they won’t update it to fix bugs.

Great RPG! No Auto-Battle?

I love this RPG. It can last for as little or long as you want. Well made and produced... I wish it was optimized for bigger screens instead of stretched, but at least we can change it back to normal in options. BUT, the PSP version on the PSN has an auto-battle option that would really improve the gameplay for mobile. Why wasn't that implemented in this version? For the reviewer who said it was $15 for the first chapter... What are you talking about?!? There aren't chapters, and this is a fully premium game. It's $15 for the whole thing, however long it takes you to beat it.

Make this a universal app?

Game is okay, port is decent. Purchased this years ago for my iPhone and never finished it. Now that I want to pick it back up on my iPad, I have to repurchase the game in “HD”? Even better, Square Enix has inconsistently updated SOME of their apps to universal apps, but not all. This game, along with TWEWY, FFT, and others I’m sure; must be repurchased to play full screen on an iPad. However Final Fantasy IV, Chrono Trigger, and most others were converted to universal apps instead of separate purchases. At the very least Square should grant the HD edition of these applications to owners of the mobile version for free. Literally NO extra work was done by them for the iPad version, why should users have to pay twice to enjoy this game on all their Apple devices?

Nostalgia at its Finest

I remember owning this game for the Nintendo DS and the Prima Strategy guide. It is such a blessing to be able to play this game again without the hardware and owning the game. I am so glad the same 3D remake with added quality of life (QOL) improvements. For example without spoilers, you can now do the Mognet sub-quest without the need for other people. You can also have a cloud save every time you enter a new room so if you die, you can revert back to your cloud save without starting a dungeon over again! If you miss playing FFIII and miss the original soundtrack (which you can switch between Arranged or Original) then you should play this game. I play this game yearly trying different job combinations and team compositions. 5 stars! Would definitely play again.

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