FINAL FANTASY III
FINAL FANTASY I-VI Bundle
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The games that inspired a generation come to life once more, in the ultimate 2D pixel remaster!
Purchase the bundle and receive
- FINAL FANTASY
- FINAL FANTASY II
- FINAL FANTASY III
- FINAL FANTASY IV
- FINAL FANTASY V
- FINAL FANTASY VI
This bundle lets you purchase all six games from FINAL FANTASY 1 to FINAL FANTASY 6 at a discount price. It also contains a sound track, featuring total of 20 tracks and total of 14 unique wallpapers.
Enjoy universally updated 2D pixel graphics and the beautifully rearranged soundtrack. Gameplay is improved with modernised UI, and extras such as a beastiary, illustration gallery and music player allow further immersion into the world of the game.
*These games are newly developed remaster editions based on the original titles. Some of the changes and additional elements found in other remakes of these games are not included.]
KEY FEATURES:
- Universally updated 2D pixel graphics, including the iconic FINAL FANTASY character designs created by Kazuko Shibuya, the original artist and current collaborator.
- Beautifully rearranged soundtrack in a faithful FINAL FANTASY style, overseen by original composer Nobuo Uematsu.
- Improved gameplay, including modernized UI, auto-battle options, and more!
- Dive into the world of the game with supplemental extras like the bestiary, illustration gallery, and music player.
About the GameThe original FINAL FANTASY III comes to life with completely new graphics and audio as a 2D pixel remaster!
A remodeled 2D take on the third game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics. All the magic of the original, with improved ease of play.
With the power of light nearly eclipsed by the power of darkness, only the crystals’ four chosen adventurers can save the world.
Experience the iconic job changing system first introduced in FFIII – switch jobs at will and use various abilities as you progress in the game. Change into a variety of classes like Warrior, Monk, White Mage, Black Mage, Dragoon, Evoker, or even call monsters to do your bidding with as a Summoner.
Enjoy the exciting third installment in the FINAL FANTASY series!
KEY FEATURES
- Universally updated 2D pixel graphics, including the iconic FINAL FANTASY character pixel designs created by Kazuko Shibuya, the original artist and current collaborator.
- Beautifully rearranged soundtrack in a faithful FINAL FANTASY style, overseen by original composer Nobuo Uematsu.
- Improved gameplay, including modernized UI, auto-battle options, and more!
- Dive into the world of the game with supplemental extras like the bestiary, illustration gallery, and music player.
*This remaster is based on the original “FINAL FANTASY III” game released in 1990. Features and/or content may differ from previously rereleased versions of the game.
Steam User 17
After playing Final Fantasy XIV for a quite a while now, I figured that it would be a good idea to see where everything started, and thanks to these lovely Pixel Remasters of the first few Final Fantasy games, it is easier than ever to do.
Overview
As all the other classic Final Fantasy games, FF III is a turned based jrpg with a huge open world and not too much guidance. Since it’s a rpg from the “old days” it expects you to talk to NPC’s to find out where to go and to explore its world. Which has its charm but can certainly be challenging if you haven’t played a game like this before.
(But in case you get lost, there are guides, so don’t let this discourage you from enjoying this great game.)
Story
Chosen and blessed by the Crystal, you and your group of three friends were chosen to be the Warriors of Light, and send on a journey to prevent the world from falling into darkness.
It's a classic of good vs evil story and the balance of light and dark. It won’t win any story of the year awards nowadays, but it is still a very good fantasy tale which will keep you hooked through the entire game from start to finish.
Gameplay
After a brief intro and learning the very basics of the combat system, the world is yours to explore within certain limitations. Monsters don’t scale with your level (thankfully) so I can happen that you run into monsters which you aren’t ready for yet.
Like in most classic Role-Playing-Games you level up through combat, find new gear, new key items through quests, and unlock new skills and jobs along the way. One of the benefits of this system is, that if you hit a little wall, you can always just go and grind monsters for an extra level or two and overcome the wall. You never really get stuck. I still recommend saving often and to do so on more than one save file, just to be sure.
Features
-A huge open world
-Lots and lots of enemy variety
-A huge selections of Jobs / the ability to switch jobs at any time
-Tons of different spells, gear and weapons
-Lots of dungeons with different themes and creative challenges, like needing to shrink yourself to reach certain places.
-Modern, optional, comfort features, like quick saving at any point, and a menu to increase exp and gil multipliers from 0.5x to 4x and the option to disable random encounters
Graphic/Audio/Tech
For the Tech, I had zero issues, no stutters no crashes, the game is perfectly optimized for modern PC’s
On the graphic side, if you enjoy pixel art, this game looks fantastic. The world is full of wonders, and the sprite art is great. Enemies, Combat backdrops, and dungeons in general offer so much variety in their optic. The spells especially look fantastic when used, and you won’t grow bored of looking at them.
The soundtrack of Final Fantasy III is still a feast for your ears, it’s really amazing how much they managed to do with the tools they had back in the day.
Final Thoughts
If you like older jrpgs or are a fan of the Final Fantasy franchise and haven’t played this game yet, I can only recommend it. The world is huge and offers a lot of variety, the combat system is a lot of fun and its all packed into a good story that keeps you hooked from start to finish.
It maybe takes a while to get the hang on it, but it is absolutely worth doing so.
And if you are a Final Fantasy XIV player like me, you will discover so many places which also exist in FFXIV, it will put some smiles on your face and provide a lot of “ahhhh” moments.
Steam User 11
The remasters start to pick up in difficulty with this one so make sure you bring lots of shurikens with you!
Steam User 9
What a blast!
FF3 was a huge step forward for Square Soft back then and you can clearly see the roots and growing ideas that helped Final Fantasy became so popular and successful nowadays.
All the mistakes from FF1 and FF2 have been replaced by better solutions. First time we see job system - what is currently core of FF14 - that allows you to play with different classes/party comp. Locations or great main theme make appearances in FF14 as well (Shadowbringers theme). Definitely recommending this title for any FF fan.
Grab the Moogle Mod Manager so you can use quick-save on shortcut or speed booster (like in few other FF PC ports).
Steam User 9
I came to FINAL FANTASY III (Pixel remaster) with some knowledge about the game, like gameplay mechanics, class system and a bit of story from FF and FFII. I have recently just complete FF and FFII and I loved every moment of both games. After completing it I moved onto FFIII. I also have NEVER played any other Final Fantasy game but FF14 and FF15. I love my pixel games and to see a gorgeous - pixel remaster - of the original "FINAL FANTASY" games I had to play it.
PROS
⚫The soundtrack was amazing. You get to listen to all the songs in the main menu and some of them are just so heartwarming.
⚫The auto-battle option is a welcome addition to a game like this.
⚫The UI is so good in this game. I had a look at the older UI that was used... yeah... this new, improved, modern UI is a much needed welcome for new players like me.
⚫You can dive into the world of the game with supplemental extras like the bestiary, illustration gallery, and music player.
⚫They took the class system even further in depth in this game. They added in actual class's, JOBS they are called, such as - Warrior, Monk, White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, Thief, Ranger, Knight, Scholar, Geomancer, Dragoon, Viking, Dark Knight, Evoker, Bard, Black Belt, Devout, Magus, Summoner, Sage and Ninja. You see... the amount of replayability behind this game if you would rather play different class's. Phenomenal.
⚫The level design/Dungeon designs improved drastically again. Instead of only having one map to explore they added in another MASSIVE world below you that you can explore. Each new area looked stunning. My favourite area was World of Darkness. It looked amazing.
⚫They also added in hidden items around towns and secret chests which actually made me, you, run around searching the towns and talking to the NPCs for clues on where to go and how to get these items.
⚫They did improve on the "Where to go next" feeling a SO MUCH with this game. I basically never felt lost at all. With the addition of secrets in towns, while looking for them some NPCs told me where to go and if I forgot, I would just speak to them again.
CONS
None that I can see, in my opinion, the game was perfect.
My Verdict
As a complete "noob" to the FINAL FANTASY games, with no knowledge of PREVIOUS games (1-13) this was an amazing journey for me and I loved almost every moment of it. I would recommend this game to anyone that likes turn-based games and the Final Fantasy series or to anyone like me, that's wanting to learn all these references and experience an amazing game series.
9/10. A stunning Final Fantasy game for newer players, which continues the journey in the FF universe and an AMAZING "Pixel remaster"
Steam User 10
The redemption arc of Final Fantasy series. After mediocre entry of Final Fantasy II, Square learned their lesson and made Final Fantasy III as a proper way of making an awesome JRPG with something new to offer.
While Final Fantasy III is not the first JRPG to have a job/class system, that honor would go to Dragon Quest III, it did MASSIVELY improve on it. For starters, you can change your jobs wherever and whenever you want, so the game actually encourages you to experiment until you find the right job. I might sound I am preaching to the choir but this is an honest truth, the Job system is the cake of this game.
Basically, Square realized they screwed up FF2, brought back some things from FF1, took the Job system from Dragon Quest 3 and improved it. Everything else is an obvious improvement, story is fun, there are multiple worlds to explore, enemies are more fair than FF2 and the game is just an overall improvement, probably the best game in the so called "NES trilogy".
The only thing I dislike is the pricing. This game is expensive. 18$ for a 30 year old JRPG, that's not really something most people are gonna spend on. Not to mention, the game rarely goes on off sale, and when it does it's only 20% off. If you have money and you want a good old school NES adventure though, grab it.
Steam User 7
Continuing my playthrough of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, I've now finished Final Fantasy III, so it's time to review it. By this point, one should be familiar with the graphical style of these Pixel Remasters, there doesn't seem to be a lot of changes between games, except, maybe, on character and enemy sprites. Otherwise, it remains pretty consistent, as does most of the gameplay.
Now, after Final Fantasy II's drastic changes to the leveling sytem, this game seems to return to a more traditional formula, since you get experience points after fights to level up. What's new in this game are jobs, which work as specialized classes. You start out with the Onion Knight job, a basic sort of Jack-of-all-Trades, but as you progress through the story, you unlock more specialized jobs with their own strenghts and weaknesses. Also, choosing a job doesn't lock you to it, so you can switch your party around for any situation (although some jobs are particularly useful). Spells in this game also work the way they did in the first Final Fantasy; there's eight spell levels, and you can equip three per level. Like in Final Fantasy, White Mages specialize in White Magic, Black Mages in Black Magig, and Red Mages can use both types. Then, there's also summons, which work like spells, but require the Summoner job.
Now, the story. It begins with a world in chaos, after an earthquake has caused the Crystals of Light to weaken, and the forces of Darkness to rise. You play as a party of four young people, who one day, while exploring a cave, come across one of the Crystals are named the Warriors of Light, destined to restore balance to the world. Without going into spoilers, something I liked about the story was its theme of balance, as it doesn't necessarily say it's the forces of Light versus the forces of Dark; in the game's past, it was four Warriors of Dark who saved the world. Along the way, you'll meet many interesting characters, and explore many different areas (the initial world map may seem small, but it really opens up after a certain point in the story).
Well, I've already talked a bit about gameplay in the opening paragraphs, so there's not much more to add; it's a fairly standard turn-based RPG with random encounters, and just like in the previous entries, there's auto-battle to speed things up when trying to level up a specific job or something. The soundtrack has been reimagined from the original 8-bit tracks into something more orchestral, and they did an excellent job with it.
All in all, this is yet another solid entry in the Final Fantasy franchise, and so I recommend it.
Steam User 6
This pixel remaster is soo much better than the 3D remake! Ohhh Yurrrr