FINAL FANTASY IV (3D REMAKE)

It’s good but the original was better when it came to the battle scenes the villains look rushed and pixelated compared to the original. also i remember how cool it looked when you would hit a target with magic and spells compared to this. Since its a strategy game the flow and look of the battle scenes are important and i dont get that with this version. But its still a good game

This is one of the most iconic RPG’s of SNES. I’ve been a fan for a long time of this franchise. Let’s start with the positives. 1st, I enjoy the new look of the game. The characters, cut scenes, world graphics, and how the weapons change as you get different ones…. All very cool additions to the game. Even the augment stuff and trophy hunting didn’t bother me, I found it fun to add this to the beloved game itself…. Follows the story exactly, no weird changes or anything, and all of that is 5 star work!!! Now, the negative that’s a total vibe killer…. The MUSIC!!! Ugh… I don’t know if the new composer is like totally tone deaf or just decided that he wanted to “improve’ one of the greatest soundtracks of all time, but the problem is like nails on a chalkboard…. This person completely changed many of the bass lines and it totally vibe kills the game for me…. The ever popular battle music for normal battles, like dude you can’t mess with that! And what about the drum programming in that battle music? It’s like you programmed a drummer making a mistake on the hits, there ain’t even no kick drum with the cymbal hits!!! Ugh, and Mount Ordeals???? The bass line totally changed the song and there’s no magic there anymore. Just absolutely BRUTAL!! This is just a couple examples out of many. One of the best experiences of playing ANY final fantasy game is the music, especially Nobuo Uematsu’s work. His music sets the vibe for the game. So, to actually have the audacity to change it yourself or incompetence to take on this challenge and fail that horribly, it’s truly an outrage. I can barely keep playing the game hearing this brutal destruction of so many of the wonderful tracks this game had. It drives me crazy…. I could’ve done such a better job…. Anyway, that’s why the 3 stars. Overall great remake, and it’s a shame that the music didn’t keep up with the game.

I played this game back in the day and with this port, the boss Goblez is basically unbeatable with the way it is set up. Everything you hit him with basically just heals him….sad that i got this far in the game and now i face a bug that makes what used to be a relatively easy boss into the ultimate badass…lol

I love the 3D version of this game and I would love it even more if the game music wasn’t shutting off randomly to where I have to reset my phone

This was my favorite game from childhood and I absolutely love watching the cutscenes bring to life moments of a story that I treasure. The controls; especially in battle; are as counterintuitive as anything I’ve ever tried to use. I thought I could counter that with a controller, but this game does not support it. Any battle that I can’t auto-battle through (though I do love being able to set auto-battle commands) usually just leads to me quitting the game for a while. The quality of life improvements are mostly a nice addition, but taking away the ability for characters to equip a variety of weapons is unwelcome. Overall, this is a nice nostalgia hit, but ultimately not very viable as a game.

The 3D aspect really isn’t an upgrade over the original sprites. And this applies moreso to the music. Not one musical track was improved over the original. You really need to offer the original music as an option because the new versions just sound odd.

Love the games originally, still do but the timer on a touchpad does not work well with me at all. Put an option for a turn based setting I would be a fan again.. worse part is that time is important and when pressing a button does scrolling instead it’s impossible to get a pattern down like with a game pad. Have the timer with no option to turn it off is one the reasons I stopped following the franchise back in the day actually. I liked taking my time figuring it, and die very little as my personal play style. Like slow chess. You all made it where that’s not possible . Only speed chess then to add challenges to don’t add options, you take them away. If they just had the option 🤷🏽‍♂️. The rest is cool, and having timer for second run would be bonus way to play a second time too, oh well. I was gonna work my way through series but the timer is to annoying for me . Reminded me why I stopped playing 😝 Oh grey tail turned in twice and did nit receive “reach ring” even though it said I did. Did not appear in inventory. Also,battle graphics manipulate battle timer and not in a good way =-/ But I would still do five stars if they just had the option to go “turn based” in settings. That menu wait thing does not achieve the same thing. Can still have speed play factor for characters performance on turn based. Taking away options to make it more difficult is not creating for challenges it feels manipulative. That pre load commands is cool but then in after years the took it away 😝 more taking away for challenges and that was lazy coding for sure. It’s the exact same game just reorganized and for challenge make it harder to choose actions 🙄. They put asteroids hitting earth to block the entrances to parts of the game not used from old template. Could not even bother to put a tail in them. After years the game they rushed out for money, not content. You can see in tower of Babil I think unused floor from old game, blocked by mysterious powers. Lol even most old random town treasures in after years same from 4 😜 Off to look for a game like dragon quest/warrior. Or play them all again 😁 they got after game content that’s pretty cool 😎 If you all add turn base options to games let me know, I’ll work my way up to current 😁

This is my second Final Fantasy game. I recently bought a backbone one for my phone. I love old games and this one had me hooked at the start. Highly recommend!

I enjoy the lower difficulty than the DS as well as mapmaking (items if traveled 100%) and cinematography within the story, which voice acting and improved graphics make moments, like the moon showing through the window in Cecil’s bedroom or the opening that was added (though brainwashing is overused). The battle system also allows you to choose what attack to repeat and you have augments to experiment with multiple commands, including hotkey magic and fun window designs. All of which are not in the pixel remaster, as well as the depth of Dark Knight Cecil’s mask that he fully wears in battle, and partially has in cutscenes or shows his eyes if he wants. He also has a soliloquy while opening the menu. The main issues I had are that you backtrack a lot with a useless teleport (towers, sealed cave and tunnels are not dungeons) quicksave is kinda dated, forcing you to save and the default combat speed is slow at 4, so you’d have to set it to 1 after the first battle. Edward’s harp sometimes clips through his cape like when Tellah attacks him, but I’ll take that with the best versions of his bard songs to quickly regen and later haste the party (he’s not as good in the after years/pixel remaster). Also, Cid working on airships has the worst animation I’ve seen in a game as sometimes he’s not even holding the hammer properly. Fortunately, Golbez’s motivational backstory, normal difficulty being challenging but fair, and developer’s office extras not in the pixel remaster, make this the definitive version despite the fact they messed up and I lost my defender Kain had equipped despite him returning to the party in the endgame. It was better than his Gungnir, so just robbing me makes no sense.

I’m sure the game is fine and has all it’s old school charm however, the audio refuses to work. Not matter how much I uninstall/reinstall