Game Review: ファイナルファンタジー

Final Fantasy is one of the games that I've beaten on original hardware, back when I was a kid and had endless hours over summer break to throw myself against digital challenges. I never owned the game, but a friend down the street did, so I borrowed it and holed up in the basement with my party to fight forest imps. I played for a few hours, made it to the Marsh Cave, and got utterly destroyed over and over again. I had to return the game, but my failure rankled me until I went back to that same friend and asked if I could borrow the game again. I spent hours outside the Marsh Cave, killing monsters until I was hugely overleveled, and then went down into the depths of the earth and slaughtered everything in my path. I was so overleveled that none of the rest of the game was really a challenge, and I beat it a week or so later.

For the reason, and because I've beaten it a couple times in the years since then, I was originally planning to play through the iOS port of Final Fantasy and write about how I liked that compared to the original, what I thought of the changes to make to more like other Final Fantasy games and how the difficulty held up when the characters used MP instead of the original magic system, all of that. Unfortunately, I started the iOS port several years ago and played through extremely slowly, and the last update to the iOS Final Fantasy deleted everyone's saves. They recently updated Final Fantasy IX to make it unplayable, so maybe they're just trying to clear everyone's plate for Final Fantasy VII Remake? I am immune to their tactics by virtue of not owning a PS4, so with nothing stopping me, I switched over to the version of the game I knew best.

Well, except that it's in Japanese.

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