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Best Final Fantasy Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game originally appeared on the SNES as Final Fantasy III. Now, 14 years after playing it on the SNES I get to replay a "Directors Cut" of the game on GBA. This was the first RPG I really enjoyed playing, and I highly recommend this to anyone who has not played it, or to anyone who would like to try an RPG. The story is good, the translation is good, the character developement is good. All in all if you haven't yet played it you need to.

JUST A LOT OF FUN

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has always been so much fun. I remembe rplaying it when I was about 13 or 14 and even today it just draws you in. now with more boss battles and magicite it's a must have for video game nostalgics and rpg fans alike.

A-nice.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

An exceptionally well-done remake to the SNES version. The extras are a fun addition as well.

Third Time's a Charm .....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well not exactly. Do not get me wrong, I love this remake of this classic FF game. But, for it to be considered the 'definitive' version as described. It would have to have the cut-scenes from the playstation remake. Which the GBA could not do though if possible then it would be PERFECT. Now in all truth, I enjoyed the original translation. But this translation may be a little bit better. Just a little. I have owned the original for the SNES (named FF III of course) Plus I still own FF VI for the playstation. Now for me to get this a third time, something must be wrong with me!? No not really I just LOVE this game. And I'm sure many of you will too.

Great conversion of a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You simply can't play this game too many times. The new stuff is a great addition, and the classic game itself is worth far more than Squaresoft charges for it. Buy it now.

"Oh, look! You all brought presents for me..."

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is one awesome game! Definetly one of the best games of all time and quite possibly the best out of the FF series.

So, the ATB system is still up and active...um, running (sorry for the redundancy). So, yeah, since I love this system of play, the battle system rocks! Oh, and now you can switch from one player to another without having to take a turn. Sweet!

Final Fantasy is renown for its usually stellar storylines. This story is no exception, and it is also the most involved storyline because of its large and diverse playable cast. It starts out with the regular story of an oppressive empire that campaigns for world dominance. (This is the third time this has happened, and every FF game that has had this theme so far has been an even-numbered game.) There is also a band of heroes that sets out to stop this empire. But, this is by far the biggest band of heroes Final Fantasy has ever provided. The cast is, for the most part, great and absolutely different from one another.

Okay, now for the villain. Introducing, the single most sadistically hilarious villain to walk the face of video games, the one and only, KEFKA PALAZZO! This absolutely insane clown makes for the quirkiest, yet most malicious, villain in the FF franchise, and I love it! He is one of the only characters in ANY kind of book, game, or movie that I love to hate. Kefka definetly took the face of evil and made fans bust a gut by looking at it. I think I can see some people are afraid of clowns. If Kefka were a real person, he would assuredly make me squirm in my pants because his sadism would freak me out.

I love the twin brothers Edgar and Sabin the best out of the heroic cast. For being such polar opposites, they have an undying loyalty to one another. The other thing they have in common is their fierce dedication to their interests. Edgar loves the women and Sabin loves his training.

The music is by far the best music I've heard in the series. Nobuo Uematsu outshines even himself to deliver this masterpiece to us, the gamers, and the beauty of some songs and the coolness of others really dig into the depths of Final Fantasy VI's heart and bring out a whole new world. This game also has the best final boss battle music in the whole franchise. "Dancing Mad" not only sounds awesome, but it also defines the madness and malevolence of Kefka. That is what music should do.

To sum it all up, this game is awesome and there really is nothing more to add to that. This is an FF fan's dream come true, and other gamers will certainly appreciate this game's coolness.

My third FF6 @@

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy 6 is one of the best in the whole series(best of all for me), I even bought FF6A from import site because I just couldn't wait until US release. This game has really moving and touching story, and each of the main characters has their own story and strong background. There are a lot memoriable famous scenes and musics in this episode, and the 2D graphic was the Top at that time when it was first introduced on SFC(still pretty good even for today's standard). If you have played FF6 before and own a DS or GBA, what can be more greater than be able to enjoy the story again anytime, anyplace, and there are some new events and features are introduced for GBA version :) If you haven't tried FF6, dont miss this chance. The only bad things for the GBA version are some of the music quality are not as good as original and some musics didn't match the end of scenes properly, but most of them are pretty close to original one. The good news is the famous opera scene music is improved.
In short, I would give this game 5 star for fun, and 4 star for overall due to the music, but this shouldn't to become the reason keeping you away it. I hope maybe one day FF6 will recive total remake on PS3 or whatever like FF3 on DS :)

one of the best final fantasy's to date!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i became a fan to this series after seeing Final Fantasy VII on Psone, but i always heard of this rpg series and wondered what was this series about... Initially you must keep in mind that this is a game that takes you and absorbs you into a world, like reading a great book that absorbs you completely... This game was of course orignally released on Snes back in 1994 and really is considered one of the best graphically translated games on Super Nintendo... It was crisp with some great music and entertaining story line, much like Chrono Trigger which was another incredible Super Nintendo game that came out around the same time also...

now to see this on a gameboy advance is amazing, its insane to think how much time has changed, what once a large console system could do, now a small portable system can do it and even better...

the games graphics are amazingly vivid and bright, which is a enhancement to the little more washed out look of the supernitendo version, not that the snes was not as good, its just the effect of having backlighten screen and also the graphical enhancement of the new game... it looks really good and leaves you with awe to SquareSoft/ Square Enix for making these classic Gems of RPG!

now as for the sound, yes somethings have been tweaked, but as most Star Wars fans, which might be similar to those of Final Fantasy, any cosmetic visually or audio wise causes some to be happy and others to be angered...

Purest will hate the fact there is a single change in what they considered a already perfect game, but its 13 years later and Square enix probably just wanted to give everyone something that was the same, yet shinned up a little and given a new glossy paint...

as for others who are willing to except the slight differences, this is still a incredible and beautiful game with 90% of the same moments of gameplay, just a slight difference in some music in parts...

Now not to change subjects, im a star wars fan and i hate change when it came to the re-release versions, but take it from me, eventually consumers will win and get what they exactly want in the end, George Lucas gave us the orginal release versions of the Original Trilogy last Fall, Square Enix might release something of the same for us in the future which is a exact on port of the original...

So for the time being just take this as a re-release of a classic to remind us Final Fantasy fans what made us fall in love with this storyline and kept us buying the titles up to Final Fantasy XII...

Escape from reality

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy is world that can only be fantasized about; in reality it may as well be Heaven to some, Hell to others. A world, weather true or false allows one to escape, to evolve into something this world can not offer. Final Fantasy is a world in which we all strive to find one day; it gives us purpose and meaning. I remember Final Fantasy from my childhood. I spent quite a bit of time in a mental hospital while growing up, my parents thought it to be appropriate to stick a 12 year old scared kid with a group full of gangsters, murderer's, rapist's, drug dependent psycho's. I was the youngest kid in the hospital the next youngest kid was a 16 year old Blood who has already killed a man and just so happened to be my room mate. After taking my belongings and beating me up, this particular gangster thought it'd be fun to sexually violate me. I'm only 12 and to young to read between the lines, yet know that I don't like it. Thanks mom and dad. I've never taken a drink, I've never smoked a cigarette, and I've never cheated in school or have been suspended. I never bullied younger kids or cursed. I got good grades and I was another one of the unfortunate kids to have the ADD label slapped right on me. In the early 90's it was a disease, an evil curse that only gets you locked away with no way out!!
So here I am for well over a year, I sit in solitude because I don't fit the criteria of AA or NA meetings, so I just sit, I sit until one day I'm told that I'm going home (only because the Insurance company couldn't afford to keep me in there any longer ). I finally get to go home and I find myself leaving the place more messed up then when I entered the place. The funny thing is that I wasn't at all messed up in the head before going to this awful place. I remember my parents having a packed bag all ready and set out for me telling me that we were going to the beach, without my brother's? I should've known it was a crock. I was tricked. We pulled up to a hospital out in the middle of nowhere, where I was taken away from the world as I knew it.
The only thing I took away from that place was Final Fantasy. It was the means of escape for many patients or criminals, what ever you want to call them. It brought a certain degree of sanity to these people that I could not understand yet knew that I wanted to share the same escape. This was a feeling that has long been forgotten, until the day Final Fantasy VII debuted. To many, including myself, this was the first Final Fantasy experience, which lead to FFVIII and IX. The sheer excitement and adventure it allowed us to be involved in only strengthened our desire to want more and learn more. It was then we learned the origins of FF I, II, III, IV, V, and the ever so unspoken FFVI which sparked the revolution. The games have been re-done re-mastered, and movies have depicted our imaginations. I feel as if we should go even further in our curiosity of the origins of Final Fantasy, those responsible for its creation, Japan. What an amazing culture, that provides us with an experience that we compare to an addicting drug. What else can they offer us? I see a society so peaceful, so energetic, and so happy. I understand, this is something that I want, and to attain that of which I, we desire, we must strive to mimic our values, and appreciate the culture that is JAPAN.
God Bless Japan.

Tara, the ultra modern witch and her loitering hangers- on.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the first of the modernized settings of the next to come FF games. Tech has mostly replaced the fanciful magic in privious installments except for this special woman named Tara(or terra or something-you can change her name). The muzak reflects a hint of the modern tech scociety of FFVI in a sort of disco/80's techno fasion. At the first your sutis fire missiles from plated cannons in the chest. Suits of armour that you DRIVE, not wear. This mage is utilized for her amazing talent that no one else has and she joins a resistance movement to protect her from the subjegation of selfish envious people who would experiment on her for her magic ability. The flamboyant King Edward uses a unique character class not preivously in other games called a "Machinist" and can use modern wheaponery such as machine guns(auto crossbows as they are called) and bio stunners a sort of "Wand of Detainment". Loche claims to be a "Treasure Hunter" but is a thief like any other game he "steals" for you. It is more useful in combat than one might think, he steals from monsters too, not just people. You get the bulk of your inventory from him. Thier are probalby a half a dozen or more characters for you to travel with and you can control multi-parties, not just your own. I suggest having Terra travel with your main people at all times as she seems to be the central charcater. Loche and Edward are also pivotol.

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