I think this is the best FF game...

[Wolf Kanno]

f*** the complaints. I'm playing through this game again right now and i think it's one of my favorite FF's. I played a rom of it once (it was badly patched), so if it wasn't for this I probably would never have played III. As far as 3D ruining the nostalgia factor, to me this eerily had an NES feel to it. Just the way the overworld was represented, the way the screen changes when you enter/exit an area, I think it really combined the best of the old with the best of the new.

Also I think they did a great job of balancing the utility of the different jobs, which I hear was a great improvement upon the original. I'm at about endgame and I'm using characters I've never used in FF, like the Ranger and the Bard (yeah, I said it).

In a way, this is the first modern FF, because not only did it move the series forward as far as gameplay, but it did so within the context of previous games. Playing the original 3 is fun because you start to see more and more how all the games since then have built off of what was already accomplished back then. And in a way III is the bridge between that, not only providing a basis for the later games, but in a sense being the first one of them, to try to go back and recapture that intangible essence that makes Final Fantasy.

Damn straight!

The gameplay is fun (am I the only one here who feels the Geomancers are just insanely broken?), the story is especially incredible and deep when you realize when it was originally written. Desch, Unne, and Doga are some amazing characters and it definely has that old school addictive charm.

I'm still waiting to hear my favorite track from the game though... "Roaming Sheep". (SPOILER)I have to defeat Doga and Unei so I can go to Eureka.

Does broken mean overpowered or useless here? I never found Geomancers useful outside FF Tactics. "Roaming Sheep" is a track that was only played in the FFIII: Eternal Legend of the Wind special soundtrack. It doesn't play anywhere in FF3j, and it doesn't appear in FFIII DS soundtrack, either, so I doubt it's played in the DS remake. The same goes for the song "Breeze".

Overpowered, I've had a geomancer in my party since the class became avaible and pretty much nothing the game has thrown at me looks like it can truly beat it. Though it does have issues in water based dungeons but it's a small price to pay for near omnipotence Though I have finally removed it for a Magus so I can have more control (and access to Flare and Erase )

That's a shame cause both "Breeze" and "Roaming Sheep" were my favorite tracks I've heard that were associated with the game. It would have been cool to hear the arranged version of "Roaming Sheep" playing during the ending or credits...