Good job system, great music, simple but effective story.
anyway the load times aren't bad in a vaccuum, but the game is built around there not being any load times anywhere, so when the PS1 version introduces them even for something as basic as displaying the menu, it gets pretty annyoing. A proper PS1 port of the game would have cached the next area ahead of time, and always kept the menu in RAM, because the PS1 has more than enough memory to do that sort of thing. However, no optimizing was done to the game and it comes off as sluggish.
the PSP version of FF4 does for example not have any increase in loading times even if you play it on an UMD, and even if the graphics are more advanced, because it has been better optimized for the console it runs on.
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