Final Fantasy 1 and 2 critically hitting the iPhone App Store

by Griffin McElroy on Jan 21st 2010 12:40AM

Yes, according to Square Enix's Facebook page, the iPhone will soon be the latest platform to carry the first two installations in the long-running Final Fantasy franchise. We found this to be very exciting news -- in fact, we're a little surprised Square Enix would simply abandon the announcement in the middle of the night on Facebook, placing it reticently between pictures of our estranged family members and our daily Farmville updates. Oh, well! No harm done.

No details or a release window were provided in the announcement, but a few screens were delivered. Looks like the timeless "Fight, Magic, Defend, Item, Run" command menu has been replaced with a more efficient, illustrated touch menu. You've come a long, long way in 23 years, old friend.

[Thanks, Isaac!]

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Tags: app-store, apple, final-fantasy, final-fantasy-ii, iphone, iPod, mobile, rpg, square-enix

Reader Comments (60)

I like to go back and play old stuff, but FF and FF2 would be pushing it: they're just too old. This new 'format' seems more inviting. Had I an iPhone, I'd be interested.

With updated graphics and a reworked menu system, the only aspect of these games that would make them feel "old" is your own nostalgia.

...and turn-based battles.
(of which I am a fan)

Holy shit!

If these won't work with a first gen Touch, there will be hell to pay.

i will join you in the raining of the firaga

I guess you could say that Square-Enix hopes its super effec....aww crap, wrong franchise...

Would have worked if the article was about Dragon Warrior Monsters

I think he meant pokemon...

nice graphics, wish this was for windows mobile, I don't have an iphone...

Get a PSP, that's what these are ported from.

These are ported from the PSP version!?!? Damn! I just beat the GBA port and this does look good.

Huh?
Decent phone games?

yeah, theyve been around for a while. All you need is your eyes open and a lack of bigotry, but you managed to express neither of them with only four words.

Tetris traveled all the way from the past to say "Hello!"

Pretty cool. Wonder if we'll get Dragon Quest I, II, and III on here too.

Interesting choice of icon for the Items selection. I better see a Tea Potion in game...

Is there any chance that VII, VIII, or IX could be released on the iPhone? I'm not sure of the specs.

There IS a PSX emulator avaliable through Rock, but I don't believe it works terribly well.

All the PS1 FF's probably could be, but if you have an 8GB, it would take up a little over a gig of your device, per game... And that's MINIMUM... Wouldn't leave you with room for much else.

The 3rd gen Touches and 3GS's probably could handle FFX, again the file size would be minimum 4GB, heavily compressed.

@diskoboy

A PS2 game on an iPhone? Are you fucking high?!

WANT CHRONO TRIGGER

The world will never have enough platforms for Chrono Trigger remakes.

Is the DS version of ChronoTrigger somehow more definitive than the SNES release? Or is it less definitive on the PS platforms? I thought they were all essentially the same, although I've never touched any of them but the original.

the DS version has all full game, a couple new areas to explore, and all the cutscenes from the PSone version.
pretty definitive.

The DS version also lacks the crippling load times (for every freaking fight) that the PSX version has.

I'd rather get Chrono 3 than another Trigger port.

A PS3-style remake of Chrono Trigger, on the other hand...

super excited.

one thing i just realized though... I remember when i played it a lot of times i would just tap a repeatedly... thats not going to happen here...

nonetheless this will make a few of my classes a lot more interesting

no no no.. it's Fight, Magic, Defend, Item, Boot to the Head

can't you read Iconese?

I bequeath... another boot to the head.

...and another one for the wimp.

FF2 has such a weird leveling system. It's kind of like Oblivion in that using skills levels them up, but to increase HP you have to get hit. So the best way to do that is to let people die and then revive them.

FF2's leveling up system became the SaGa series (starting with Saga 1, otherwise known as Final Fantasy Legend outside Japan).

The lead designer for FF2 was not Sakaguchi but in fact the SaGa guy. He's also responsible for FF13.

I saw a billboard today for Farmville as I was driving down the highway.

You want a cookie?

GTA: Chinatown Wars came out tuesday, on the iPhone.

It's scary to think the iPhone/iPod Touch is actually becoming a good mobile gaming device!

EA's great support, Gameloft's recent efforts, id's support, the platform has had serious support for some time.

Unless it will someday sprout buttons and a d-pad, it will never be a good gaming device.

It most certainly looks sweet. That's for sure I how ever have no Iphone so I can't get to giddy about it.

So the 20th Anniversary editions with weird buttons instead of commands?
How'll the menu look?
The game looks too cluttered now, so I'll pass. Besides, I already bought FF1 for Famicom, NES, MSX, WSC, PS1, GBA and PSP which I thought was the definitive version. FF2 I only have for Famicom, PS1, GBA, and PSP, but wasn't too fond of it to begin with.

FF1/2 for PSP was pretty, but I consider the GBA "Dawn of Souls" as the definitive version, since...
- You get FF1 and FF2 all-in-one
- No loading times

Wow! That was a lot of acronyms!

I would have shortened Famicom to FC, but most people wouldn't know what it was if I did.

Interesting. Final Fantasy I is one of the two Final Fantasy games I've actually played (along with III), but I lost the GBA cartridge before I could beat it. Might have to pick this up when it goes up in the app store.

This almost makes me regret getting an android phone instead of an iphone. If I didn't own FF1 on nes, ps1, and gba I might be more tempted by this. Great idea for Square though, those games are perfect (read:simple) for a phone as long as the updated interface gets the job done. If they get Ogre Battle or Final Fantasy Tactics on the iPhone, I'll cry.

Having tried a number of "top-tier" App Store games, I've got only one, potentially futile hope for this game: that they *don't* apply the usual console/handheld mentality when it comes to launching. The vast majority of games I've seen launch into a loading screen, then a menu, before you even get to the game, and then when playing, you have to be sure to finish what you're doing (ie, save) before exiting. Considering how often I'm having to read emails or texts or make/receive a call, this seems like an incredibly poor design.

My hope: when you exit the game, it should save exactly where you're to, then on relaunch (which it should do in less than 10 seconds) it should go back exactly where you left off.

Call me a purist, but something with those screens doesn't sit well with me. Too "westernized"? Too "modern"? Can't put my finger on it...

I'll stick with my GBA FF games, thanks.

I can't stand iPhone games that have "on-screen" buttons. If Apple released an iPhone with hardware game buttons, they might destroy the industry.

I don't care what anyone says: FF1 is the greatest RPG ever made.

I wonder if this'll include the uber-dungeons from Dawn of Souls.

OH GOD NOOOOO! The last thing my iPhone needs is a 40 hour RPG T__T

...might as well tell my family we won't be talking much anymore.

HOLY SHIT !!!

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO PLAY THE SAME GOD DAMN GAME!

Serious can't Square just translate and port over a game that never came out in the US like Bahamut Lagoon?

Maybe you should ask Sega that question too.

Hey, an iPhone Genesis emulator. GUESS THE GAME RELEASES!

It's OK. I'm pretty sure you don't HAVE to play it...choice made even simpler if you don't have an iPhone.

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