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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:43PM skyblaze said

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Oh man, screw the freeness and infinitely larger selection of Google Image Search, I am SO going for those art galleries

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:52PM bensmith91 said

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@skyblaze

I seriously wonder how many people buy those... I mean, surely they know those same images are probably online somewhere for free
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:45PM skyblaze said

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@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

this is FFIII, not FFVI

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:47PM Faceless Troll said

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@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my This is the remake of the NES FF3. Not the SNES FF3.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:48PM skeldare said

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@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

It's a port of the DS FFIII.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:48PM melao said

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I tried to play FFI on the iOS, but the lack of D-Pad bothered me a lot! I want this on Xperia play. :) I will buy this phone as soon as I can.

@Mr Esc From the pictures this look like the FFIII Nintendo DS remake.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:51PM bensmith91 said

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I'm sure this title will be on sale when the next big title comes out (War of the Lions should be out sometime soon). If $16 is too much for an iPhone game for you, you can probably wait till then..

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 5:52PM milliniar said

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hmm to buy now or wait for the inevitable sale price?

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:11PM Epoque said

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@Mr Esc "... Square Enix's 3D remake of Final Fantasy 3 when it made its way to DS back in 2006 ..."

A remake of Final Fantasy VI has yet to make its way to Nintendo DS, despite the clamouring of myself and a few million others.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:19PM (Unverified) said

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why does an ff7 image gallery cost more than an actual game. something is not right here...

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:19PM skipjimroo said

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Wow! That's a lot of Squeenix love for the app store there. I had no idea their mobile back catalogue was so vast.

I hope the (I have no doubt) rampant success of those titles persuades them to consider expanding the slim pickin's on the Android Marketplace some time soon.

Not that there isn't a plethora of RPG action to be found there already of course - It's just that nothing else scratches the same itch as that victory fanfare at the end of each battle.

Hmmm...I wonder if I could get it played at my funeral. Just as I roll off into the crematorium furnace...

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:24PM ZayCube said

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It makes me sad that my Android phone never gets any of these awesome games. :(
I wan't Tiny Wings, Infinity Blade, GTA: Chinatown Wars, Peggle, Plants VS Zombes among many other games on my droid as well.

What's up with iOS always getting the good stuff?

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 7:25PM The Only Girl said

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@ZayCube
I think its because Android programming actually requires work. SquareEnix seems to either port or dump trash on the app markets.

Good thing they got that hippo.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2011 5:43AM Shinchi said

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@The Only Girl
You know it's much easier to create stuff on Android than iOS? right? Apple use one of the most bizarre backwards languages going for their apps.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2011 9:26AM (Unverified) said

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@Shinchi Most newer 3D Iphone games only work on 3g, 3gs and 4. They only need to optimise there game for 3 different hardware configurations. Which would be easier when dealing with DS ports such as this and GTA.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:26PM jph89 said

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@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

I still like FMA. The 1st Anime was weird as hell though.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:28PM Funkmaster General said

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I would have much preferred it if they simply cleaned up the original sprite version. I am not a fan of this look.

Also, this game made me hate my life and every other living thing with it's (what I thought to be) crushing difficulty.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:41PM Martin C said

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This game looks absolutely fantastic on a retina display. They also somehow found a way to implement the virtual dpad in a way that's not annoying.

Enjoying it so far.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 6:46PM daevv said

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$16?!?! *throws up alittle in my mouth thinking about iOS future game prices*

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 7:14PM The Only Girl said

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@daevv
Yeah! How dare they charge a reasonable price for a great game!
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 7:53PM Funkmaster General said

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@The Only Girl

When compared to other games on the app store (iphone, not ipad) it is not actually a reasonable price. It is a greatly inflated price, one that Square Enix has been working toward.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 10:50PM Hoops said

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@daevv After the early adopters have paid their square tax, square can lower it around christmas time. Sadly it seems unlikely it'll ever hit the $.99 sweetspot.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2011 8:57AM hami83 said

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@Funkmaster General And when you think about the quality of the games you buy for 99 cents, vs a game like this. You think... Hmm.. It IS a reasonable price.

Unless of course you think EVERY game in the App store should be 99 cents even if it's a 30+ hour high quality game.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 7:13PM The Only Girl said

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Needz moar android.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 7:46PM VeeDeeVee said

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Ouch! That's kinda pricey. Still I have this for my DS so until it drops to 59p I'll stick to... my... DS.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 10:42PM Prince David said

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@VeeDeeVee I will to, but the appeal of having it on my phone is big.. Plus the graphics look more polished on the iPhone than they do on the DS. I might rebuy this game for iPhone when I get the iPhone 5
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 7:49PM VeeDeeVee said

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@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my
Americans are funny. They think everything revolves around them LOL.
Why would Square Enix remake a game that was only released in a country that wasn't their own? No sir. This is the FF3 that every country outside of America knows it as. Nothing to get confused about.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 7:57PM bigwhiteyeti said

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See this is great, and I would most definitely get it, were it not for the fact that there is no way to back up app data on the iPhone. So if I have to reset my phone, or remove an app to free up space, I lose ALL of my game saves. My 2 playthroughs of Plants vs Zombies? Gone. My high score in Fruit Ninja? Gone. All those countless hours getting 3 stars in every level of Angry Birds? Effing gone.

Fix your shit, Apple. Let people back up app data, and maybe I'll consider you a real gaming system.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 10:27PM melao said

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@bigwhiteyeti well I had a problem in the PS3 filesystem for no reason and I lost all my saves as well... Even my FFXIII saves.
Shit happens.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 11:09PM bigwhiteyeti said

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@melao

The difference is that the PS3 has the option of backing them up to an external drive (which I do), and now to the cloud (for PS+ users). The iPhone platform has no such function. Which means you're screwed no matter what.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 11:59PM (Unverified) said

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@bigwhiteyeti
iTunes backed up app data when you sync with it.

It's possible to access application data using third party tools as well. It's certainly an area that needs improvement, but there are solutions.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 8:14PM darthdavid said

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Chaos R, looks real temping now....

Posted: Mar 25th 2011 7:08AM zfallen said

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@darthdavid
It's worthwhile, get it if you want a new experience that isn't a remake.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2011 9:01PM Pilander said

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AAUGH!

Is there still no mention about War of the Lions? We've officially been in Spring for almost a week now. I'm ready.

Well, does anyone have anything decent to say about Secret of Mana on iOS? Maybe that can tide me over for a few months.

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 9:24PM Punkrawk Bbob said

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@VeeDeeVee

Nothing to do with Americans thinking the world revolves around them. This is the localized version (for NA). They named it FF3 in America once before, what is so crazy to think that they would do it again? If anything we have Square to blame for the confusion since they renumbered them here, as well as named every RPG released on Gameboy Final Fantasy even though they weren't.

Regardless, this is NOT the one with Locke, Celes, Terra, Edgar, and Sabin if it's still unclear. This is the first game that introduced the diverse job system that pervades the series irregularly (FF3, 5, Tactics, 11, 14)

Posted: Mar 24th 2011 11:09PM gatotsu911 said

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@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my
What are you thinking now? Fullmetal Alchemist is legitimately excellent. A little kiddy in some aspects, maybe, but a rollicking good fantasy tale by any standard.

Posted: Mar 25th 2011 5:59AM Shinchi said

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So..... I wonder how much Final Fantasy Tactics is going to cost on release then.... £20

Posted: Mar 25th 2011 8:41AM Doomedlion said

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Far to much for an ios game I will wait for a price drop squreenix is adlib far to much for there games they have released over and over again I love there older games but they need to remember these are older games and there being greedy

Posted: Mar 25th 2011 8:58AM mynameisjay said

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I've NEVER played a Final Fantasy game. There I said it. Is this one worth jumping into or should I start with 1?

Posted: Mar 26th 2011 1:47AM LowKeyyyy said

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@mynameisjay start with the latter/newer entries (preferrably VI or VII)
the old FFs are very outdated.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2011 7:08PM clawbytes said

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Port it to XBLA and me and tens of thousands others will buy it on day one of release.

Posted: Mar 26th 2011 3:38PM gatotsu911 said

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@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my
It wasn't really an action show, nor was it really about making any sort of profound philosophical statement (admittedly, its attempts at philosophizing were often juvenile); it was, however, an excellent fantasy adventure/mystery show with great characters and gripping plotting/pacing, and I'm not sure how much more you could ask for out of an anime series.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have only seen a handful of both anime series, but have read a fair bit of the manga.

Posted: Mar 28th 2011 2:49AM Ziphion said

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Anybody know what's up with Mognet?

In the DS version, you unlocked a huge number of extra things, like the best weapons/armor in the game, an extra dungeon, and the Onion Knight class, by sending and receiving messages via Mognet to people and NPCs.

In the iOS version, I really don't know what's up. You definitely can't send messages, but you randomly receive some from NPCs... Does anybody know whether all of the Mognet rewards are actually available on iPhone?

Because if not, that really sucks.

Posted: Apr 1st 2011 3:13AM mikemyerz666 said

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They should've just created a port of the original nes version and gave it the SNES graphics like they did for the first 2. I bought ff, ff2 and secret of mana since they're on sale, and I love them. Ds port can suck it, and I'm not paying $15 for a port on my phone.

Posted: Apr 3rd 2011 4:46PM (Unverified) said

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Can I get a recommendation as to which of the three iOS games I should get (I, II, or III)?

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