cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26619304
This goes for mobile too (was just browsing mobile FF games and realized they’re 20% off). Yay!
Am I the only one who thinks those prices are still too high for 25+ year old titles? Don’t get me wrong, absolutely love the games, but this “discount” feels closer to what it should be.
Square 🤝 Nintendo
Charging 2-3x too much for games you already bought.Original price of $10 each feels about right. They put work into the graphics, music, and bug fixes. But stripped out all the additional content of later releases.
$18 for one of these games is ludicrous. I would have preferred to just pay for the older version that they removed from the app stores.
Absolutely not alone on that. Square Enix’s prices on all their old titles are about 50% more than I’m willing to drop on them at any given time.
All 6 games bundled for 30 dollar/euro would be fine.
I totally agree. I recently bought on sale Final Fantasy 1 for mobile, mostly because I didn’t feel like digging out my PlayStation and putting in one of the original remastered disks. To be honest, the load times were pretty long on a kind of it being PS1. But the prices they’re asking for for all of these remasters are excessive. Also some of them have 3D instead of pixel sprites; FF4:TAY in particular was ruined that way. You know what I’d like to see; all of the newer Final Fantasy is done in pixel art style. Like from 7 onward. That would be fun.
I’d argue there are better ways to play all of these except maybe FFIII (Japanese FFIII, not VI)
Do note that I’m a weird person though, if you just want to play the games, those versions are fine and effortless
As I said in another topic, this is the only way to play FF3 in its original form (or at least close to it) and in a language other than Japanese, outside of emulation. The DS remake is fine, but it is definitely a different experience.
I don’t like that they stripped out all of the extra content that the other releases added.
I can’t speak for the other, but in my opinion the Woolsey Uncensored version is the best way to play FFVI.
I use the Woolsey translation as part of Dancing Mad, which compiles a lot of stuff and gives you the option to use MSU1 for CD quality tracks.
I use the Synthetic Origins tracks by Matthew Valente which tries to be as close to the original as possible while using uncompressed samples.
Great tip, I’ll look into it for my next playthrough!
Sale goes for iOS and Android too
The PS1 games on Android are also 50% off. Although on my device, I can’t buy them directly because it’s “not compatible”. But I can buy it on an older device, and it will be available for download.
