LogFAQs > #972990883

TomNook7 posted...

FF3DS's not that bad lol. Look at it from another perspective: people hated it for being too faithful to a Famicom game from 1990. It was kind of like Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. If nothing else, it had updated graphics, it was portable, and it was the first english release. It was fine for what it was.

It absolutely is that bad and it's not faithful to NES FF3 at all. I really cannot emphasize just how much worse the gameplay is. The numbers are completely, absolutely plum fucked, the damage you take is a horrendous RNG fuckfest with some attacks hitting for either trivial or oneshot damage just due to variance, the game lies to you about the damage you inflict (did you know Shurikens break damage limit? No? Fuck you for assuming the game wouldn't hide the actual damage you're inflicting!), the RNG turn order removes much of the strategic element the game might possibly have in favor of playing a slow, grindy, frankly shitty battle strat out, and significant griding is fairly enforced just to push through bosses like the kraken unless you research ways to cheese ahead of time online a lot. Every single issue FF3DS has is compressed into this video, and the writeup here is probably the saddest and most telling thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjbhjq7afI

'oh yeah it took more than a decade to finish this game in a low level run because it was so dumb and random'

It's a bit easier if you actually grind, obviously, but just looking at FF4DS as a comparison point shows why FF3DS is so bad. FF4DS is a ballbuster, but it's always fair. At no point is excess grinding necessary, and you get incredibly potent and reliable tools to handle the stuff the game throws at you. FF3DS not so much. I can write an actual thesis about all that's wrong with this game but honestly saying 'fuck Hiromichi Tanaka, may he never work in videogames again' covers it nicely.