A confession to make. (spoilers) (oh, and it's a really long post)
Note to mods and admins and such: I'm not 100% on the rules about mentioning emulation. I know you can't ask about how to get ROMS and all that, but I figured this thread was okay. If it's not, please delete it and my bad, etc...
So, yesterday, I decided to start playing a translated ROM of Final Fantasy III, for an NES emulator.
It's clumsy as heck, playing a video game on a keyboard. Just doesn't feel... normal, you know?
But anyway, this game is really good. I can't believe that this game has exists for 16 years and I am just now getting around to playing it.
Because I played FF4 for the SNES first, I'd swear this game has the exact same feel. Even the worldmap chipset seems to be the same as the one used in FF4, just with the quality of NES graphics.
This game has an abundance of airships. And I like that. I was disappointed that Cid gave me an airship so early, because ownership of the skies is usually something you have to earn in other FF titles. But I was quite relieve when instead of firing a weapon from my ship to destroy that rock, we simply collided with it, destroying the ship and the rock.
But I have had several airships since then. A boat that turns into an airship... That's classy! Why didn't Square revisit that idea in a later FF? And then there's the one that can go underwater. That one is my favorite because it goes so fast, and honestly, FF3's world map is ridiculously huge. There is a lot of ocean in that game. It took me a while to figure out the whole floating continent thing, because, well, it's a weird concept, but I get it now.
Anyway, I got another Airship now, and this one is huge. This is the one where you can actually walk around on deck, visit the Big Chocobo, catch a few Z's or even pick up a Hi-Potion from the vending machines.
I'm sure that this ship was the inspiration for the Big Whale in FF4.
I just did the part where you fight Titan, and you get 3 new jobs, Summoner, Warlock and Shaman. I think I gotta go see Unne (who seems to be a woman in this game) and Dorga now, but my new pimpin' ship isn't working right. Everytime I try to fly up through the mountains (where you get in fights in the air), something seems to push me away, and I have no clue what I'm supposed to do, so I've just been leveling up a bunch.
They keep blowing up my airships! Even my fast speedy cool underwater one is gone now!
I don't use shields. Much like in FF2, I simply don't make use of shields. It's not worth losing the attack power.
Oh, and Moogles! I don't recall seeing Moogles in FF2, so I'm pretty sure this is the first appearance of the Moogles. I wonder why they weren't in FF4? Were they in FF5? I never played the entire game, just most of it, so I don't know for sure.
In the DS remake, I hope they just automatically unequip your character when you change his job, like FFT or FF5. It's annoying when I go to change and then I get reminded that I have to unequip first. But of course I don't have enough room to unequip, so I have to destroy some stuff I don't need , or sell it if I'm near a vendor.
I feel like I'm missing a lot of stuff in this game. I had a ship that could go underwater and I only used it like twice. Are there hidden places underwater? Like, a city that sells level 8 white and black magic, maybe? Or maybe some new weaponry? My Knight has had two "Defenders" for a long time, and I'd like to upgrade.
The game seems short, too. I've got what appears to be all the job classes, and I've already rockstar-trashed 3 airships, and I just started yesterday. I did play virtually all night, but even so.
M. Knights are awesome, too. The ones who use Kotetsus and stuff? The one I have always gets like 11 hits every time he attacks. My Knight is awesome and all, but my M Knight is way cooler. It took me a while to realize that only my M. Knight could hit those stupid monsters in the Cave of Darkness, or else they'd split into more monsters. I died a couple times, getting paralyzed and charmed.
Monks/Karatekas are also freaking sweet. I noticed that his attack power is higher when I don't equip any weapons on him. Seems to be true in battle, too.
I also feel like there are a lot of job classes I'm not using to the full potential. But why would I want to train a Geomancer or a Bard when my Viking does way more damage and can wear heavy armor, so he doesn't die all the time?
Another thing that reminds me of FF4 are the "conditional dungeons". There are places you can't access unless you're small/toad and so forth, much like in FF4 when you can't walk through Cave Magnes with metallic equipment.
And yet another FF4ish thing is the secret walls. But they're everywhere in this game. They're all over the place. In the North American version of FF4, the secret passageways in the walls were outlined so you had no trouble finding them. And I think in FF5 they were outlined if you had a Thief in your party. But in this one, they're mighty reclusive and I'd bet that I missed out on some cool stuff by not looking for them. The same goes for secret doors. You know, walls that bust open when you push a nearby switch? They were usually pretty evident in FF4, but I found a few just pushing on random candles. Took me a long time to learn that you have to push an invisible button on the other side to open the door back up.
So I'm pleased with this game. FF3 is a fantastic game. In terms of gameplay, it rivals the best video games ever made.
And I wanted to ask, is there anyway to "unlearn" a spell once you give it to a person's spell list? I know you can swap spell lists, like if you decide that you want a different guy to be your white mage, but don't want to buy spells again, you can just swap their spell sets. But is there anyway to remove a spell from a spell set if you don't want it there? I accidently put an ugly Fire2 in the middle of my white magic.
Wow, I just noticed that I wrote an awful lot. Well, I guess that's what happens when you play an awesome video game, all night long.
Honestly, I could go on much longer than this, but I won't. For now.
