FINAL FANTASY III Game Reviews

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A ton of fun with a Chemistry Set. Honestly this game becomes awesome when you know what you’re doing (right dungeon with right class setup especially at that mini dungeon where your physical classes can’t do damage) and/or job leveling every battle from the start by doing 5 actions, including defending (1st character can end 5th turn attacking with everyone benefiting as defense occurs first regardless of order), which auto battle helps a ton. I enjoy the quality of life (pixel remaster standard of amped up soundtrack with art, maps, quicker/diagonal walk speed, quick auto battle that remembers your past actions). Unfortunately, the jobs are not explained in game, nor are you able to see your job level in status (it’s in the job menu). The story is great for its time, and I like the rotating guest characters, though they don’t participate in battle like the 3D version. It is nice they didn’t pull the 3D version should one want to try (though note the Onion Knight is default here, and an unlock there, with Freelancer just being a bad job that doesn’t get stats buffed when you max it out, though unfortunately it’s character level and not job for onion knight so you can’t exploit early), but this game is a lot better given you have quicksaves, multiple enemies who don’t have a ton of health, and the other characters make up for having identical kids (3D gave distinct names/slight personalities). My favorite part of the game is how quickly you get an airship and the initial jobs though I find warrior kinda useless given monk is a bargain (and strong with Tonfa you can find) and you need money for magic in that mini dungeon. The wightslayer is nice for the Red Mage, though it does phase out after the first 2 dungeons. It’s still better than FF1 given you can dual wield even shields (some like the Viking to bait weak physical attacks while the rest of the party attacks unscathed). Just remember, if this version of the game frustrates you, you were playing this like a typical RPG without trying to game the system for ridiculous power, which is no fun. You do have to retreat back to town as you can’t buy Phoenix Downs until after that mini (2nd) dungeon (nice change though early you need to always heal at the spring first, as inn won’t revive), which would compound if the difficulty is excessive for being underprepared (not underleveled as you’ll be job leveling every battle with that 5 turn defense strategy, though it is only one per battle). Quicksave and healing spots do make the final dungeon (You have to manually backtrack at the top floor as the story forces you to a point of no return to undermine the Gil you make to buy shurikens before the final boss area) easier too, let alone you won’t have to only use the OP ninjas/sages as bardsong for the bard has you go first to buff the party (alternate attack/defense) with decent hp healing at higher job levels. Devout and Magus have more spell charges than the sage, and a petrification strategy is fun with those 3 equipping golem staffs to kill anyone susceptible in 3 hits rather than waste magic.

It’s okay.. Freezes and can inadvertently lose progress if you receive an email and/or change apps while playing. Happened three seperate times now mid play.

Awesome!!!. This is the best version of 3 hands down! The graphics/sprites are great, The remastered soundtrack will take your breath away, and the addition of tap mode for the mobile ports is genius! I’ll definitely be picking up all 6 Pixel Remasters. (As a side note to Square, PLEASE FIX iOS FF9!!!)

Cool. Played the ds version, never got to play this one. It’s nice and love the music and everything but I also found a bug or glitch idk what to call it. Regardless it’s when you’re on the boat. If you get too close to an edge the character may look like he’s off the boat but you’re not in land. They won’t become unstuck at all. Have to shut the whole game down and come back in to the last save. DO NOT save while in that state because you will come back just stuck. Tried it out with the quick save option rather than my regular save.

Controller support. Controller support

Iphone 6s plus crash. I play tge game bow normal but sometime game crash and close i hope you can fix this. This defect sometimes appears when there are many effects such as the emergence of the island from under the water. Thx

Well done, but could use some improvements. Love getting to play an old classic for the first time. There is just nothing more nostalgic than the 8 & 16 but era console RPGs. Love that Square remasters this in 2D and the graphics look great. It’s the update I’ve been waiting for. Wishlist: - Please fix the font. It doesn’t match the aesthetic of the game. - Please allow the removal/hiding of the d-pad graphic on the screen. It clutters up the UI in a not-good way. - Please add controller support With these fixes, this easily becomes a 5/5 game for me.

Great, but needs controller support. This surpassed my expectations, given Square’s track record with mobile releases. The game is absolutely lovely: Easy to control, with great graphics and a fantastic remastered soundtrack. (A slightly nicer font wouldn’t hurt, but it honestly bothers me less than I imagined it might.) One very clear downside is that there’s no controller support. Seems like an insane omission, especially given that other Square Enix RPGs support it. It’s not a huge problem in FFIII, but I think it will make the titles that use the ATB system (IV, V, and VI) sort of a pain. Hopefully they add it!

Game Crashes. This is completely unacceptable. This game crashes before the opening scene finishes playing. I literally can’t even play the game I paid for. I’m on iPad and this is the exact issue I had with the FF1 pixel remaster. Only this time it’s substantially worse. This is absolutely ridiculous and I will not be supporting this company again. To release a product with such a glaring issue and to not even work to fix it is just deplorable.

Keeps crashing. Every 5 minutes

No controller support?!. I was so happy to have the original Final Fantasy III, instead of the remake, finally officially available in English, but there’s no controller support here! Hoping it gets patched in later 🙁

Actually Pretty Great. I am a huge fan of this remaster. It hit a lot of the notes, but here’s a short pros and cons list. Pros: + Great control. I play on iPhone and iPad (only needed to purchase once), but mostly my iPhone. I haven’t had issues, and most of what I’ve messed up on in terms of control was my own fault save for one gripe (see cons). + This 2D title is a part of history. As far as I can tell, this is a solid rehash of the original, and I’m excited to keep clipping through it. It feels like the original with job changes, and that’s what I was hoping for. + This is what I expected. And my expectations were pretty high. They really did (sort of) re-invent the wheel here, and I haven’t been disappointed so far. + The music is OUTSTANDING. Industry reviews have said it all over, but still, it’s worth noting. Cons: - There’s an issue on my iPad: the game crashes. I am going to chalk it up to being an older iPad because it works flawlessly on my phone, but they should nip that in the bud. - 8-way movement is awkward. It’s the one grip I have about the movement. - If you’re not into touch controls, you probably won’t be a fan. It’s all touch controls—you should know that going in. Thank you, and if pick this up, I hope you enjoy it!

Has issues.. Main menu keeps bugging out also when I can get the game to load , it has no audio. Dissatisfied after almost 20 dollars.

The best version of the best 8-bit FF. Just not on mobile. I'm so glad to see Final Fantasy III finally have its original 2D version remade to re-enter the modern gaming landscape, and be preserved in games history for all time. This is the best looking, best playing version of FF3 ever... except here on mobile where an awkward touch interface drags down the gameplay. This new remaster is begging for a re-release on a real video game system with a real game controller. Until then, this beautiful new version stands as almost perfect.

Good game but crashes on iPad consistently. Title

How Does This Issue Exist in 2021?!. This game doesn’t let you listen to other music or podcasts while playing. How does an app releasing in 2021 still have this issue?! I can’t give any app with this issue more than 1 star.

Here’s a Gem…. This game is exactly what I hoped it to be! Here’s a gem for you guys… If you’re using an iPhone to play, and have a smart TV accessible, you can use “screen mirroring” (a feature on your phone) to play this game (or any game) on your smart TV! I have a 4K tv, and it does the game even more justice! I see the remastered colors even better on a larger screen! My phone then acts as a controller then… I would love to see this game add the actual controller usage, but it’s just fine for now. Thank you Square Enix for what you do for us fans! Can’t wait to see what else you come out with!

Controller support needed. I love this game so much but it would be so much better if it had controller support!

Buggsssss. Every 5 mins or so it boots me out of the game . Infuriatingly frustrating.

Controller Support. The pixel remaster is amazing and would be top notch if it weren’t destroyed by the fact that there is no controller support.

Controller support?. I love Final Fantasy. Have done since the early 90’s. It was so much fun playing through the 3D versions, and now I love these pixel remasters, except for one crucial flaw: either give us controller support, or actually use the touchscreen to its full potential like in the FF VI 3D version. This weird ghost controller thing, never has been, nor will it ever be, an effective way of controlling an FF game. Come on, already, Square Enix, this is just being unacceptably lazy at this point. You can, and need, to start doing better, y’all.

No controller support in 2021. A brand new game that doesn’t have controller support. What a shame

No controller support??. No controller support was a total letdown for me.

风格不喜欢. 还是比较喜欢时间之轮的美术风格

Controller support for backbone. Would be 5 stars for me but lack of controller support is a bummer

Perfunctory works, not recommended to buy. Boss has a single skill.. The final boss, Dark Cloud, will have one skill throughout. Rush out of the work, not recommended to buy.

I slept on this game for so long. I can’t count the many times I have started this game on the DS and never finished it. I got this version and I’m falling in love with it. The story is nothing out of this world but it has an unique charm to it. I find myself drawn to the world and I feel a need to explore every nook and cranny. The job system is awesome, I played FFV but the jobs in this game are pretty cool (Monk and Geomancer OP). I can’t wait to finish it and play the others!

Backbone Support. I love having this game on mobile, but maybe you guys could add controller support? I play games with Backbone and I would LOVE to be able to use it on this and the other Pixel Remasters!

Great game but need technical improvements. Pros + Awesome soundtrack. + Beautiful sprites. + Auto battle and easier job level up - less grinding. Cons - 8 way movement is too clunky. Prefer 4 way movement. - Typo on Caanan, should be Canaan. - English language font type look out of place. Could use a better font type to improve readability. - Biggest complain for me is the random crashes. I’m playing in Pad Air 2, iOS 14.6. Please fix this as I can’t enjoy the game with these crashes.

A Good (if archaic) Game. Final Fantasy III was a game originally made in 1990 on the NES/Famicom. This pixel remaster stays true to much of the original game’s design philosophy, which can be both enjoyable and a hindrance. It uses the old Charge system of magic rather then the modern MP system, Inns don’t revive KOed party members, and airships not being able to fly over mountains are just some of the things in this game that might throw you for a loop if you come in after having played other FF titles. The plot is paper thin (it was originally an NES game, after all) and lacks some of the improvements/changes to gameplay and story that the 3D remake gave us. But at its core is a perfectly functional RPG. It expanded on the first game’s Job System with improved customization options. This is not a game that holds your hand and the difficulty can spike up rather suddenly at times. Its older design philosophy can be easy-to-hate at times, gimmick dungeons that require Mini or Toad are a sour point for me in this game, but the combat is enjoyable and it’s a solid experience if you’re in the market for an old school RPG experience.

missing controller support. The rest of the remake looks and sounds great. Easy access to a final fantasy I Haven’t played. Great The on screen controls are loose and unpredictable. Its not ruining the play through. But, it does force me to constantly think about the input mechanism which takes away from the experience

30 minutes in, an honest and simple review. I’m a young but long time final fantasy fan. I wasn’t alive back when some of these games were released. However, I’m still a fan of the classics. This, honestly, is not as bad as everyone is saying it is. The graphics look very nice. They are low-res and crisp just as god intended. There’s some inconsistency with the ui and I’m not a fan of the font, but it’s pretty easy to get over if you just focus on playing. The music, now I’m a big fan of the music. They aren’t using the original tracks for FFIII, but re-orchestrated them and honestly I think it was the right thing to do. The game sounds beautiful so far, and I’m eager to hear more. The thumb stick control is a little finicky, but you can kind of use it like a directional dpad if you press the directions. The battles are very faithful to the original and fun, and there’s a bit of modern magic going on. It’s not a sloppily thrown together port of an old game, there is actually some work done here and that is great. If you’re looking for a 1:1 copy of the original, emulate it or find yourself an old NES and cartridge. I’m enjoying myself so far!

Great Game, Poorly Optimized. FF3 is a great game, easily my favorite NES FF. A lot of the Pixel Remasters here on mobile have had frequent crashing issues (Except FF6) but this one has been the worst so far. Please fix stability. My device isnt old nor is it overheating while playing.

Request for controller support. Please add controller support!

AR feature missing?. If I’m not mistaken there was a AR (augmented reality) feature advertised with this game. Does anyone know how to access this feature? Other than that this is one of the best versions of FF3.

Good Game, if You Can Through All the Crashes. Enjoying it thoroughly but it crashes on my 5th Gen iPad about once every 10-30 minutes, presumably due to out of memory (usually occurs when I switch scenes or open the menu). Similar to issue with the first two Pixel Remasters, but much worse for this one. Wait for a few patches for them to fix their memory leaks.

Needs controller support. Please add support for controllers on iOS.

Poor movement controls. While the game looks great, runs smoothly, and sounds great the one area it really falls short is the movement mechanism. That weird on screen analog does not work well at all and I find that I fight my movements just to get where I want to go. The tap feature is also not great and clunky. The biggest miss is the lack of controller support. The other games work with them no problem but these do not seem to work with my Razor Kishi. Which would make this the perfect way to play these games.

The Definitive Final Fantasy III. I was skeptical, given how they didn’t give this a console release. I played the NES original and DS Remake so this had quite the shoes to fill. However I’m about two hours in and can say with no reservations that this the definitive way to play. The spritework and textures are spot on, from obvious stuff like character sprites and enemies to more subtle things like how water shimmers and clouds roll by. The thing nobody talks about though is the music. While it does borrow a tune or two from the DS remake otherwise it’s all original and the best of any version of this game. From rock to orchestral everything feels epic an extraordinary. It’s the kind of OST you’d buy to listen to on its own. As for gameplay it’s largely the same as any other version, save for one difference. It uses a spell slot-based system for magic. In short this is just like the NES version. To those unfamiliar though basically magic is divided among several levels and each level has a unique pool of points to draw from when casting their respective spells, with each spell costing one point. For instance level 1 spells can have 9 points, level 2 can have 5, and so on. I like this return to form because, since spamming high level spells alone isn’t an option like in more modern RPGs, you have to be more strategic and economic. The downsides are the price (18 bucks is a bit much for what you get), a lack of controller support (hopefully a future update will add this), and omission of the DS remake’s added story elements. The last point, where each party member had their own personality and plot, is sacrificed to make this more in-line with the NES original, sure, but it’s still missed. Besides that though I still think this the definitive way to play Final Fantasy III.

Needs controller support. Would be a much better experience with controller support

So good - almost perfect. Just need appleTV support and it’s perfect

Avoid.. They’re requiring me to buy it a second time on my iPad after buying it on my iPhone. Don’t give these vultures your money.

CONTROLLER SUPPORT!!!!. copying my FF6 review because somebody needs to address this: FF3 is obviously a great game but for the love of god would have putting controller support in a game already with controller in mind be so difficult its like you’re intentionally trying to upset your player base (plus the steam version already has it so there is absolutely no reason iOS should have launched without it. Keeping this 2 stars because its playable and its a great game but there is seriously no excuse for lacking controller support

Love it but crashes a LOT. I’m having a great time with this and all of the pixel remasters but this particular game crashes all the time, to the point where I’m almost quicksaving after every battle.

No controller support. SE never gets this right. Please support MFI controllers. And please add it to FF8 as promised.

Horrible font. The font is tiny and unreadable. Until this is updated, I would not bother playing.

My only 5-star of the first 3 pixel remasters. I’m a die-hard FF fan. I’ve played every core game when it was released (including the ones that initially didn’t release in America) and have spent countless dollars on ports and sequels. I like the new graphics and music across all 3. I’m a little frustrated that there’s no controller support, especially because the tap-to-walk pathing in this one wouldn’t path through hidden walls (it did in the other 2, so it’s weird it didn’t for this one). Nonetheless, this port is the only port of FF3 that I’ve ever actually enjoyed. In fact, this was only the 2nd time I’ve beat the game, while I’ve beaten the others plenty of times (minus 11 & 14, which I don’t consider real games in the series, but are still enjoyable in their own right). I’m glad bonus content in all 3 was removed because it was never really balanced well and never made much sense (not to mention they were pointless), but I’m also sad there were no attempts at adding content. It would be nice to see tons of side quests added or what-not that actually build and strengthen the story (not “Go find my dog” or “Gather ingredients for my family dinner” types of quests…). There’s no reason to make a “true to the original” rerelease… we can just go play the original if that’s what we wanted.

Review/controller. These pixel remasters are really good I'm enjoying the old school final fantasy games alot more. Hopefully now and in the future pixal remasters they had controller support especially to the backbone controller

How is less content an improvement?. Final Fantasy fans are really easy to please. Square slaps new pixelated graphics and a remixed score on an inferior version of the game and FF fans act like they did them a favor. Oh course Square is just setting them up to sell them the “DEFINITIVE COMPLETE VERSIONS” in a few years with all the added content. Pixel remaster fans get mad at me for saying this now, then when the next versions come out they’ll claim those versions were always better. Just watch it happen. Let’s be clear about the pixel remasters. Only the first 2 FF games are improved. 3-6 have less content and less challenge. They are objectively inferior versions of the games because there isn’t as much to do. Whether you feel that the added content in previous releases was necessary or not is irrelevant. It’s *LESS CONTENT*. Not as much stuff to do and the game ends faster. This isn’t an improvement. Pixel remasters aren’t the pure classic versions anyway, there are lots of changes from the original releases 30+ years ago. So if they’re gonna alter the original games, why wouldn’t they include all the extra content released over the years? How can you call something a “definitive version” when it’s a barebones release? The 3D version is way better. More challenge, more content, more jobs, and an entirely new introduction.

Great final fantasy game. Great game would be five star if it supported controllers

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Controller support. Hello square enix, this will be a masterpiece properly reborn with controller support

No controller support. Why release this on iOS and PC and have zero controller support on iOS???

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Great remaster but needs controller support. It’s great seeing the original NES being remastered while keeping the DS port for 2 versions to play. It’s amazing. However none of these pixel remasters don’t have good controls for phones and really need controller support.

Tap controls not working great. Can’t tap through to the other side of secret passages, have to switch to virtual joystick controls to cross through secret pAssages.

Crash. If you switch to your camera app and come back, it resets with no autosave. Make the option to run in the BG please.

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Awesome Game - Needs to address bugs and optimization. I enjoyed the game - it was a lot of fun to play. Will change star rating once the following is addressed: 1) The game could be better optimized for iOS - it makes my iPad Pro 12.9 2020 run hot and run through its battery 2) Final achievement for earning all achievements does not get rewarded - I have tried to troubleshoot by logging in an out of Game Center, force closing the app, etc..nothing works Suggestions: 1) Controller Support 2) Square Enix restore - I would like to be able to play the game on other platforms utilizing the Square Enix backup feature 3) Apple TV app

Updates. You should update this and other final Fantasy pixel remastered games 1-5 and later then you make final fantasy 6 compatible with more newer devices both Apple and android device and include performance improvement to those games as well

风格不喜欢. 还是比较喜欢时间之轮的美术风格

Controller support. Controller support