Final Fantasy V is fantastic.

Dawn of Souls sucks. I had a fan-translated NES ROM of FF2 and it was much better.

Honestly, I never had a problem with FF2. But I fucking hated FF3 (the real one, not FF6) in its original form. I hated that all four characters were just palette swaps of each other. Either give me four distinct characters who are part of a specific storyline, or let me choose the combat class of my four cookie-cutter douchebags. I played the game for about an hour than gave up out of disgust.

username wrote:

thats a silly reason to hate the game.

I disagree. That was a huge step backwards from the previous 2 games. In FF1, you got to build 4 characters from the ground up. They had no backstory, but you got to pick their classes. In FF2, you had four unique characters, each with their own sprite who were part of a greater story. In the NES version of FF3, you're four generic orphans who all look the same. It's awful. The DS remake fixed this by giving each character a distinct name and story.

When I played the DS remake, I also learned that you could switch classes, something that I hadn't learned in the first game due to my impatience with it. I probably would have liked the NES version better if I had learned this.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Syd, you do realize that you can, in fact, "choose the combat class of [your] four cookie-cutter douchebags." That's what the statistic development system in the game is all about, hence the generic pallet swap artwork for the characters in the default class. To have taken that screen shot, you would have had to have been far enough in the game to acquire the first six or so job classes.

See my above post.

jprime wrote:

I beat FF3 on an emulator twice a few years back, myself. I wonder if it'll hit the VC as an import title, DS version notwithstanding.

Unlikely. The import VC titles we get are all games that require little to no translation work. I believe Sin & Punishment's translated menus are the extent of VC-related translation work.

Yeah, I played a translated NES ROM, then gave up on it. This was quite awhile ago, probably like 6 or 7 years ago, shortly after I finished FF2 with a translation patch. Then obviously I played it again briefly earlier to get the screenshot.

If I had had an instruction manual back then and known about class changes, I probably would have really liked it... I love the class system into FF5. I really should go back and try it again, so that I have a better idea of what was added into the DS version.

I can understand the graphics thing. I'm not too keen on FFIV with new graphics. If I had liked FF3 the first time around, I might not have liked the DS version.