FINAL FANTASY

Good game, confusing music track list

This remaster is great and is a must-have if you enjoy JRPGs or have any interest in the original Final Fantasy! I don't have anything original to say about the game itself, so I'm going to use the rest of this review to talk about the confusing music track list:

As of writing, there are 2 music DLCs for this game, one of them is a pre-order/bundle freebie with just 3 tracks, the other is the full 33 track OST for $14.49. The in-game music player sadly has only the first 27 tracks. I almost recommend the beautifully remastered OST, but I'm disappointed that it doesn't also include the original Famicom music.

Speaking of, the game features an 8-bit chiptune track for the opening cutscene, which didn't exist on the original Famicom game. I love it and if this old school track was created exclusively for this remaster, then I wonder why this wasn't done for all the other tracks that weren't on the Famicom...such as the various battle and building themes. If that sounds too much like a nitpick, then I'd argue that this could have given the game more replay value to experience it with both the chiptune and remastered music.

My final verdict is that this game is worth 1 play-through, but make sure you choose pixel text and remastered music in the settings menu. Please wait to buy the OST unless Square Enix updates it.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. All of the modern QoL improvements make it really easy to play. The new BGMs are cool, but the classic music being included was a nice touch.

I had the Final Fantasy 1 and 2 pack on the Gameboy Advance and could not get into it. I don't know I just have not been able to get into RPG's. The pixel remaster though is very nice and has amazing quality of life improvement (maybe if a little overboard.) What always got in the way for me in RPG's is the grinding to fight bosses, I always thought it dragged out the experience and makes the game overstay its welcome. The remaster adds in a way to increase your leveling up by either doubling or quadrupling your experience points. I do really like this but the one thing that kind of holds it back is that once you do that, the games challenge falls apart (except for the final boss.) The story is nothing to write home about but it was one of the first of its kind so I will cut it some slack. If you have problems getting into RPG's or if you are interested in starting them, the remaster will be perfect to start off with.

love most for the the game. but the final boss is a little bit cheese to beat. But i need meat it again and it just take very long. but overall fun 7.8/10 (Plus music is amazing. PEAK sounds of my Ears)

3.5/5 - Great to see where the series started, with some familiar themes and music! Can easily sit down and play through this in a few hours.

Crazy how a game this old is still very enjoyable. FF has the formula down pat form the start.

Takes me back with the nostalgia of it all but with some slight quality of life improvements that make the game feel more fluid in playability

A cute little game that deserves your attention and praise for both it's simple jrpg fun and historical significance. This remaster makes the first final fantasy much more accessible to play and nicer to look at. I had fun, got all achievements, and ended in 20 hours.

A really faithful remake of the original, and for someone who has begun to binge all of the Final Fantasy games, this game was truly an amazing introduction to the franchise. Good world building,sound design and art style all culminating into a cohesive well thought out story line that never fails to keep you wanting more of it. Highly recommend, 10/10. Cannot wait to play the sequel after this gem of a game.

8/10

Chill game, felt nostalgic even if I never played the original.

There are a lot of hints that come from npcs so it's important that you speak to everyone or you may even miss some key items needed for the story to continue. I can imagine that if you couldn't access google for some of these hints then the game would have taken way longer back in the days.

You can definitely tell that this game/series had a massive influence on a lot of games even if it is relatively simple. Nothing is particularly hard and you can for example find all the chests by yourself needed for 100%. This remaster comes with many quality of life improvements from the original game but the game could still in my opinion had more detailed systems in the battles, but since it's a remaster of a very old game by this point I understand and could put myself into not caring as much about that.

Only thing I feel could be better is the price ratio. This game came out almost 40 years ago by now and just because it is a remaster I don't feel the bundle of these games should cost as much as they do, and they very rarely go on sale which just feels greedy.

This is probably a good version of FF1, though i prefer the art style of the PSP one. It's a full remake of FF1 in the art style of its successors, yet almost as barebones as the original version. There are no quest markers so at times you just run around, wondering what you're supposed to do. The quality of life improvements are welcome but they could have done more. The story of four guys kicking ass is nice i guess, but you never get to know these people. It's clear to me now after playing FF1 that the brand got as big as it is because of its later itterations, not this game in particular. There's no reason to play FF1 today or even this version. But if you're curious, go check it out.

At first it is a very funny game with an old school feeling but after few hours it turns extremely repetetive with hundreds of unavoidable fights.

The game is still a little rough around the edges, but with the amazing QOL changes that the pixel remaster brings it is still an amazing game

This game has been my introduction to Final Fantasy and it is amazing. It is far from perfect, but as an introduction to this franchise I feel that it fulfills it's purpose amazingly. Besides that I feel the game is bare, which is expected as it's the first game and is old, it is amazingly paced and I had a lot of fun exploring areas. I'm going to attempt to 100% it.

Fun and interesting game. Wasn't too hard but had some fun challenges along the way. Final boss was a kicker though lol.

Very bare bones both in terms story and gameplay, this game hasn't aged as well when compared to newer final fantasy games, but this version has some good quality of life additions like being able to toggle random encounters on and off, which makes exploring dungeons less tedious. I still like this game despite its flaws and older game design and its lack of meaningful story. It's a good game if you just want a basic rpg without the story slowing you down. It's a very short game and can be beat in 10 hours or less, but there is replayability by starting a new game and choosing completely different classes.

I'd recomend to get it on sale if you're a final fantasy fan or just want a short and cozy rpg to play for a bit.

The first time I completed this game, was in 20 minute intervals in the handicap stall where I worked in 2012.

The Pixel Remaster has some nice QOL, such as turning off random encounters and boosts to EXP and Gil gain. However, my favorite part of this game is that you can pick what your party is. Whether it be a team that's useful or just 4 of the same class, it's up to you. The story itself is very simplistic and the game is short, but it's a very enjoyable experience and a great start to getting into JRPGs.

My only complaint was that if you don't have a knight, then you miss out on using most of the items. It seemed like nearly every equipment I obtained from chests was exclusive to the knight class.

8/10

So, this is the game that started the series with the most ironic game in history...does it hold up?

It has a rather nice enemy design with quite well-drawn bosses. The gameplay is fully turn-based and whether you like it or not depends on you.
What I personally don't like is that this game has (almost) no story and characters making the only reason you would like to restart the game a run with other classes. With 6 classes, that's not that big of a motivation, especially considering I know that Thieves are a pain.

TL;DR: I will recommend the game since it's a nice, but I would suggest that you rather buy FF 4, 5 or 6 before this one, unless you really want to see the series from the start and even then, I will recommend that you will skip FF2 which is the worst in the series (I will die on this hill). I rate it a 6,5/10 (for 1987 it would probably be an 8/10)

It has a unique charm in that this is more a Dungeons and Dragons game as anything else. I appreciate that about it and that it doesnt try to be something it isnt. While this is not my favourite release of this entry I feel that, unlike some of the other pixel remasters, this version does offer a slightly different experience from any other version of FF1. It uses the classic spell slot and level charge system one would expect from D&D and uses remade sprites of the original famicon/MSX designs which no other version deigned to use as they all seem to base everything off the PS1 release. There are some changes from the original however, and the game feels a fair bit easier as a result. That said, I do not miss having characters swing at empty air if another member takes a target out first. I would probably still recommend the Dawn of Souls or PSP versions over Pixel Remastered but it is unique enough of a release that fans of old non-final fantasy RPGs may find this version coming out ahead.

This is the first Final Fantasy game I have ever beaten.

I thought the game was fairly easy all the way through it until I came upon the final boss.

I was humbled very quickly. Super satisfying to see him go down though after multiple attempts.

The original and the best! The game that spawned the biggest and best RPG franchise that continues to soldier on and impress.

No words can describe the awesomeness this game is, it speaks volumes already for itself.

Such a classical game and the Pixel Remastered version is solid. It’s easy to play with both a Gamepad or with a keyboard. Having the option to play it your way is great. The only issue that I faced was with trying to figure out how to change the resolution of the game. However, once I figured it out, it was AMAZING!

For me, it’s 10 out of 10 for the OG classical Final Fantasy game.

I have played this through many times on the Nintendo. It was one of the highest rated games on that system. This version is a bit easier. The Money comes faster. You do not have to wait for soooo long after fighting to get back to movement. Music sounds much better. This is one of the classic RPGs. It is a good starter game for younger people or a re walk through our youth for us older Gamers. A good starter game to learn the RPG genre. Most of these RPG games sprung out of D&D or Utlima or the Wizardry series. I remember watching in school on the Apple II someone older than me playing Wizardry. Then I was able to play Telengard eventually. Atari 2600 was out the same time as the Apple II. Few years later we saw our first Nintendo and we marveled over the graphics. LOL A game does not always have to be cutting edge to be good or enjoyable. Enjoy this little Gem. There are informational guides, maps, manuals and such for versions of this game.

I started my FF adventure with the 4th FF game for SNES about a year ago (which I thought was FF2, learned about the confusion soon after). Everything about it was captivating, especially the story telling and lovable characters. Upon completion I knew I had to start from the beginning, and here I am.

So far, soooooo good.

Have to say. If you've played the original version of this game, the changes made to the remastered version take some time to get used to. The fact they switched the magic system to more of a D&D version (I.E. can only cast a certain # of spells per level) rather than the original MP system is kinda annoying. I much preferred the option to either spam a bunch of low level spells rather than being limited to a specific# of level 1, specific# of level 2, etc. really changes the difficulties of the battles. I'm still early enough in the game (just got to the pirate town) that I'm not sure of other changes to the basic game mechanics compared to the original.

If I'd never played this game before, I don't think I would have had an issue, but I remember buying it when it first came out and basically locking myself in my room and spending nearly 40 hours straight playing it (and living off a diet of blocks of cheddar cheese and ruffles potato chips) and maxing everything out, finding all the hidden weapons, and then playing it a few more times in a row after that first playthrough, coming back to it and finding changes to the basic game mechanics a little disorienting.

This is, unfortunately, not a good game.
(TL;DR: 1. Play with a walkthrough, 2. Ditch the Thief, 3. Even then, the game is somewhat mediocre.)

Essentially, it all boils down to extremely outdated game design that makes the experience quite unsavory.

One of my biggest gripes is the obtuse structure of the game. I have been playing it without a guide, and it has required many poorly postsigned small triggers:
- Figuring out what to do once you have the Earth Crystal is a bit hard. I had found the next important town, but see next bullet for why I was stuck anyway...
- Got stuck because I did not notice that in Crescent Lake, if you go behind houses in the top-right corner, there is a small passage that leads to a whole other small area.
- Had to look up online whether what turned out to be the Levistone was obtainable, since it looked important but was not clearly reachable. It turns out, while most breaking ground tiles are bad, one breaking ground tile gets you there, but it's not clear which one that would be from the geometry of that level.
- Figuring out what to do with the Levistone is extremely obscure. You have to remember that an NPC was very vague in one town, and to guess that you should talk to him again now that you have the Levistone.

In general, while at the beginning of the game a dancer character helps you know where to go next if you're stuck, from some point onwards she just seems to say "heh, whatever". And at this point the game has opened a lot and there are multiple things to track, this would be the best time to have a helper...

My second biggest gripe is that the game systems just seem badly designed.
- Dungeons are very long, I guess this forces you to stock up on items and use them, so maybe that's better than many other FF games. The maps in this version are a godsend, because the dungeons are full of long empty corridors that would waste a lot of time exploring without a map.
- The Thief class is garbage. My Thief is just a bad Warrior.
- Elemental stuff doesn't seem well thought out, sometimes it might not even be implemented? The Fire Sword has worse stats than the Ice Sword, but in the ice dungeon, it seems best to keep the Ice Sword because elements just don't seem to matter.
- Most fights are best fought with auto-attacks from everyone, to save MP. The only reason to waste MP is large fights where auto-attacks are too slow.

Now on to the good points:
- The game is absolutely charming.
- The music is iconic, and has not aged poorly. (unlike the grating Dragon Quest themes)
- The QoL adjustments are welcome, taking this extremely tedious game to a fairly tedious game.

Overall, I'm having an okay time, but I would never recommend this game as "a good time".

I really liked this game alot as a start to my chronological journey to final fantasy its a really basic game but surprisingly holds up well with its story.
-very short game only took 15 ish hours to 100% all the achievements
-lovable little story Classic

Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy is a simple RPG in terms of story, battle mechanics, and leveling up. There is also a job system where the player must choose four out of six possible jobs. The jobs cannot be changed once picked, but they can be upgraded.

The high encounter rate can get annoying. However, the player can turn off the random encounters in the settings to avoid battles whenever he or she wants. The controller enable option is also great for those who prefer to play with a controller instead of the keyboard.

Overall, it is not the strongest game of the classic franchise. However, this is decent game and a must play for any Final Fantasy fan who has not played it before.

The original FF game, and still a fun ride. In my opinion, the definitive way to have a first experience of this game. It is missing the GBA/PSP content, but my recommendation is to play that version supplementary if you really love this game. In terms of visuals, music, and quality-of-life, this is the best version of FF1, and those factors should come first in a FF game over bonus content that is mostly superfluous. You only get your first experience once.

This game is definitively better in every way than the original. The graphics are way better than original, and there is an auto battle system that is VERY nice. Honestly, the only thing I didn't like was the price tag. I have never seen the game go below 30% off ever. Otherwise, the game is a very solid remake of the original.

These games are way too expensive for what they are. Love the franchise, but even on special these nearly 40 year old games are ridiculously priced. I'd pay 20$ for the 1-VI bundle, not the 100$ current price, which is more expensive than most modern triple AAA games with thousands of supporting staff, high end graphics, and millions of lines of code larger. Sad to see Square Enix be so greedy. MHO.

I love final fantasy. and i love the idea of returning to basics. But, there does really need to be an option for the anniversary content as well as the psp visuals.

Fun game, too bad it's the final fantasy. Sounds like they won't make any more after this one.

I've been a fan of the series for a while but I've never got around to playing all of the mainline games until recently. I decided in the brainrot year of 2025 that I would attempt to play them all and review them starting from the first entry.

Starting with the Story, it feels extremely barebones and straightforward as if it was pulled from someone's homebrew D&D campaign and can get really vague when telling you where to go next. Some of the major villains that aren't exactly the "Big Bad" feel lackluster with the Earth Fiend being "Lich" and the Water Fiend being "Kraken" with no added context. The ending wasn't groundbreaking but the time loop with Garland was satisfying enough to be fulfilling at the end of the game.

The Music is a big highlight and gives you a remastered soundtrack with the option to have the original music as well. The battle theme never felt old even after the multiple hours of grinding.

The Gameplay is classic Final Fantasy from the get go. The locations are unique and add some variety to the game with nothing feeling rehashed or recycled. The party system is customizable to a certain extent and can give you a little bit of variety and replayability to the game if you want to explore different builds.

The Pixel Remasters are a great way to get into the older entries of the series and can offer some nice changes like a world map or some XP boosts for those that can't handle the grind. I wholeheartedly recommend this game if you want a classic RPG that's short and sweet to go through although I would probably have a guide not too far away in case you get lost.

8/10

First time playing Final Fantasy so I have nothing to compare it to as a remaster.
While not the first JRPG ever released, Final Fantasy I is one of the earliest, and it really feels it. A lot of the complexity and nuance of later iterations of the formula are missing here, which is at times a strength and at others a weakness. For story, it's practically just a Good vs. Evil story with a few interesting story beats but very little nuance. It's a fairly decent game overall, but nothing spectacular like later entries in the Final Fantasy series.

What a great game. Relive the experience from the original with amazing music and beautiful remaster.

Nice bit of retro gaming for ya, its mellow and challenging as a turn based combat system. it is only as hard as you want it to be.

The first Final Fantasy game I've beaten! Sure, it's basic. Sure, you can speed through most of it easily, but you do get stuck if you don't talk to NPCs haha. Loved it though!

****Read this before PURCHASING!! This will save you time, money, heartache and a skewed review******
This is a remaster, NOT a remake. The difference is a remake has new content and different game play from the original. FFVII is a remake. This game is a remaster, which means it plays like the original 1989 NES version. If you did not like the original NES version, you will not like this. If you are an evolved game player from older games, you will not like this.
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This is a wonderful remaster. I like the few tweaks made to improve gameplay. For example, the higher level you are, the stronger your spells get. In the NES version, advancing levels did not have impact on the lower spells. This one the lower level spells will do more damage as you advance. The music and colors are beautiful. The play is much more smoother than the NES. Seems like it flows better. Other than that, it's overall the same like back in 1989.

This is the game where it all began. The arrangements with the tracks are superb. Also you get a gallery section with the work of Yoshitaka Amano with concept art of monsters, characters and enemies, the Bestiary and treasure chest trackers help if you are a completionist. It put things in perspective how it was back in 1987 for people to find this just out of pure grinding. I wholeheartedly recommend the game for what it is.

This review was done after playing two full games, the 2nd game I managed to get the 100% achievements and characters level 58 (I think)

What can I say, it's the og game that made the foundation for the series we have come to love today.

I will say that even by today's standards I think Final Fantasy 1 lives up to today's expectations. The combat is fluid, the classes all feel balanced in my experience (can even do some funny runs with 4 monks if you want and the game is very beatable still), the areas are still beautiful and the story; while very simple, is very effective and even has a great plot twist towards the end for the final villain of the game.

Final Fantasy 1 encompasses what we love about the Final Fantasy series and I recommend people to give this game a try whenever possible.

Also, the pixel remaster does the game great justice too. Performs well, looks amazing etc.

Give it a go!

The base game isn't very good. Every 10 seconds you get into a random battle, and 99% of them play out the same and in 98% of them you have no chance of losing. You attack, all enemies are dead by the 2nd or 3rd round. Heal if needed. While there are spells that are supposed to make this more interesting, such as elemental attacks, blind, or slow, 80% of the time it doesn't work and 100% not against bosses. So there's no reason to do anything other than straight damage or heal. Super annoying if you don't know where to go next, and have to fight 50 battles just to explore.

The developers of the remake understood this and added in quick auto-battle, they ability to turn off random encounters, and a minimap. I also used an online guide so I wouldn't waste time wandering around. I'd play this for nostalgia or story's sake, not otherwise. Still giving a thumbs up, because there isn't anything else the developers could have done that wouldn't have changed how the game fundamentally plays.

Final Fantasy I Pixel Remaster Review

This review may contain mild spoilers.

Platforms tested
Windows desktop

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[td]Finding certain enemies to fill bestiary can be very time consuming.


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[td]Remodeled art[/td]
[td]60 FPS cap with uneven frame pacing may cause stuttering.[/td]
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[td]The game is very light on the story and the story bits are easy to miss.[/td]
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Things to know?
Game has been updated with the boost options and enhancements from the console ports.
Game allows turning off encounters and to customize difficulty in the form of XP and Gil drop-rate.

Tl;dr

The classic that started it all. Final Fantasy 1 Pixel remaster has been upgraded to a more modern age by remodeling the graphics of the game and adding quality of life improvements. Many of the series staples, including Cid, Airships and iconic monsters are featured. The game’s iteration has stood against the time well and is well worth experiencing in this form. Highly recommended.
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Overview

Final Fantasy, first released in 1987 to Nintendo’s NES can be said to be one of the most influential role-playing games of all time and has greatly influenced all Japanese RPG titles. It has been re-released multiple times since 1987 with different editions having different features and content. This latest, Pixel Remaster is a remaster based on the original game and thus is missing the additional content that could be found in other versions, such as the FMV sequences in Playstation Origins release or the added dungeons in some other versions.
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Overview of the Story and Gameplay

Final Fantasy takes place in a fantasy world, which is held together by the 4 crystals, each representing element of earth, fire, wated and wind. The world is filled with different, dungeons & dragons inspired races, such as humans and dwarves.
The story starts as the four warriors arrive to Kingdom of Cornelia and are recruited to save Princess Sarah from the rogue knight Garland. These events start the warrior’s journey to seek out what happened to the 4 crystals and to restore them.
The player controls the four warriors on their journey. The game begins by creating the party members by naming them and choosing their classes from Warrior, Monk, White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage and Thief. The classes are permanent and cannot be changed, although later in the game it is possible to upgrade the classes to their stronger variants. For example, Black Mage becomes Black Wizard.

The game plays like any other Japanese RPG. The characters travel the world via overworld map, enter towns to talk with other characters and to do their shopping, enter dungeons from overworld and fight against monsters and bosses.
During their travels, the warriors get loot from enemies in the form of items, money and experience points and they can find numerous treasures during their travel.
The battles are menu and turn-based. The characters can act based on their classes, such as attack, use magic, defend, use items or even flee.
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The Tech

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster runs mostly locked at 60. The game has poor frame pacing which may cause stutters on some displays if G-sync is enabled. The settings are as barebones as possibly can be. One can choose from different display modes and from resolution and nothing else. Upon changing display mode, the game restarts. There is no way to increase the frame rate from the in-game settings.

The game supports ultra-wide resolutions by drawing borders to the screen. This is certainly nicer than the usual black bars, but unfortunately players are given no chance to change the borders.

On audio side the players are given a master volume slider, a BGM volume slider and SFX volume slider. Other options the game features are the language, brightness and customizing key bindings.

Apart from these, the game allows to choose between the new arrangement of the background music and the original NES soundtrack and to change between modernized font and a “classical font”. The game features a separate display filter to allow for a CRT-like look if one prefers such filter.

The options are different once the player has loaded to the game, with the display options completely missing, but new options such as Cursor Memory, Continue Auto-Battle and Default movement options appearing. In addition, the configuration screen now has the Boost menu to allow for customization of your adventure.

The game is by no means resource intensive. Frankly, it can be run with no problems on pretty much anything, which makes it fantastic to play on a Steam Deck or other handheld devices.
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Miscellaneous

DLC: The game has no content DLC. The game however has a wallpaper and arranged tracks DLC that can be received by purchasing all 6 pixel remaster games in a bundle.
The Wallpaper has 2 different wallpapers in different 16:9 resolutions from 1024x768 to 3840x2160. Frankly, I did not like the wallpapers for FF1.
The soundtrack DLC is 3 tracks in mp3 format at 320kbps. These are “Timelapse Remix” tracks of Main Theme, Matoya’s Cave and Battle. The mixes start as their original classical versions before evolving to their pixel remaster arrangements.

Achievements: The game has 24 achievements with no missable achievements. All achievements can be obtained in a single playthrough. The most challenging achievements are opening all chests and fighting every monster.
Pixel remaster adds a new map function that shows the entire area and location of chests. It’s also possible to open the map to check each area on how many chests you have collected during your adventure. This makes collecting all 249 chests much easier.
There are 128 different types of monsters, including bosses, to fight. However, some of them can be very rare to encounter and may require achievement hunters to fight with monsters for hours just to find that single one with 1/64 chance of appearing.

Extras: The game features a music player for all the soundtrack tracks as well as another extras menu with artworks from the game. In addition, the game has a bestiary that can be checked to see information on different monsters.
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My Opinions

This game is a classic and with the modern quality of life features, it’s fun to play. It took me around 10 hours to finish the game with all the achievements and most of that time was spent on looking for one certain monster.
It is very light on the story. So light that it can be very easy to skip almost everything on the story. But one has to take into account that this was made for NES in 1987, so the technical limitations and pioneering has to be taken into account.

Almost everything from Final Fantasy can be found in one way or another in many modern roleplaying games.
While I miss some of the quality-of-life improvements found in some other re-releases, like game speed toggle or improving battle speed, I didn’t really feel like I needed them. It was clear, that this was the first try as the loot was mostly worthless.
The game is quite easy, with only few real challenges, so if you’re looking for a challenge, there are other better games to play.

I am very happy to recommend this game and think it's well worth the price and time.

Amazing reorchestration of the original OST, lovely amount of resolution options, and has the original MP Charge system.

And that's where the positives end. It's got a terrible CRT-filter. Really ugly updated sprite work. Terrible font choices. And overall a really all over the place art direction. Some UI elements are pixelart, some aren't. There's really no sense of cohesion on that front.

Thankfully, all these issues can be resolved by mods, but there's so much more that this remaster should have had in order for it to make this the definitive version of FF1. And even with mods, there's still no option to play with the original spritework across the entire game, which is what would have made this the perfect way to play FF1.

If you're willing to mod the game it is a mostly great way to play the game, but SE should have done a better job with these remasters.

The definitive, and honestly only at this point, version of the OG. As someone who doesn't have a whole lot of time to game, I really liked the quality-of-life options that were included that allowed me to speed, and admittedly cheese, my way through the game a bit.

SCORE: 6/10 - ALRIGHT
Does this remaster do justice for my #3 favorite game on the NES? Well, it's a mixed bag. The updated graphics and music are perfect! Unfortunately, aspects of game balance have been adjusted for the worse because the entire adventure is way too easy at default, with the notable exception of the brutal final battle. Thus, I recommend: Configuration --> Boost --> set EXP to 0.5x and Gil to 0.5x. Currently, it looks like a beta (patch?) is in the works on SteamDB, so I may change this review in the future.

I remember I bought this game and started playing and thought to myself "this is going to be rough with having the quality of life features of an 80's arcade game, but it's a classic so I'm going to push myself to play." I had 2 or 3 save files that I didn't start right, or have the right mix of jobs in my party (spoiler, the default is arguably the best, or 2 fighters and 2 Red Mages). Once I got the right mix and was on a roll from a gaming mechanics perspective, I really got a chance to enjoy the story. What I found is why Final Fantasy is one of the most prolific game series of all time - and why this game set the precedent for so many other games that came after it. What I also discovered (and was not expecting to find) was that Final Fantasy has Easter Eggs that pay homage to things like Dungeons and Dragons (Mindflayers are an enemy for example) and the Legend of Zelda (with Link's tombstone). This was also my first Final Fantasy game - so I got to have an unbiased first look at this, without the quality of life features that the modern games have.

My Final thoughts on this Fantasy game is that it's good. Go and get it ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

It's a classic! If you know anything about Dungeons and Dragons, you'd be surprised how much this game pulls from it! It revitalized a great game from way back in the day and (speaking as someone that's never played a Final Fantasy game through to completion until now) is more than enough fun for someone to have for a good playthrough. c:

It's a soft recommend to anyone who wants to see where Final Fantasy came from.