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FF3 Pixel RemasterHoly fuck was that the biggest nosedive I've seen in an FF game since FF15's 2nd half. Game is all super fun, interesting jobs, lots of adventure, vehicles everywhere, and then it's like FUCK YOU SIX HOUR DUNGEON CRAWL with every boss spamming the same all-party shit move Quake/Meteor/Particle Beam over and over and over and job variety? No fuck you, it's Sage and Ninja only because they're better than everything else.
What a boring tedious marathon that is so long it's essentially like 20% of the entire game. Absolutely hated everything from the Earth Crystal onwards. I'd go as far as saying that 20% is the worst endgame of any FF ever. If I tried this on any of the other versions without saves I'd probably have just given up. I got several game overs during this segment so all the saves constantly saved my ass.
It's too bad the end sucks so hard since the rest of the game is a great FF.
Cloud of Darkness is ridiculous too in HP. Either you buy a ton of shurikens or the fight takes forever. I was broke and couldn't afford shurikens and I did like 1k damage per turn and the boss has 120k HP. It literally took like 100 turns over 20+ mins. God.fucking.awful.
So overall feel pretty mixed on where it stands as an FF. I guess it's better than FF13, everything is better than FF13.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and say out of the initial group of FF1-3 Pixel Remasters, FF1 is the game I enjoyed the most. Outside one spot with the poison cave early on, that game was just pure fun without any annoyance or frustration found in chunks of FF2/FF3.
Kinda glad FF4 Pixel is next, coming from that can use a super easy no effort FF.