I originally didn't like the Famciom version of FF3, it's a rough game with a story that's a step back from 2, an overall uninteresting job system, and just kind of a lack of memorable moments or setpieces.
The remake does fortunately fix some of these issues, but overall is still just a good game, which relative to other Final Fantasies, is a low bar in my opinion.
First I do wanna mention the improvements, the job system is vastly improved when it comes to character variety and abilities, now every class has some form of secondary ability that truly adds more identity to the cast, stuff such as Advance on the Warrior, Retaliate on the Knight, Barrage on the Ranger, or Soul Eater on the Dark Knight. These give these classes at least some more viability and uniqueness past "they can attack things and maybe they have a bit of magic!
Unfortunately the one downside is the job adjustment phase system, in which your stats get halved for a few battles after you change jobs, overall I managed to just continue to progress and not mind the lower stats, but this is worse than the Capacity system from the original.
I think the battles overall have been enhanced, the game is much harder and has more interesting boss fights, I found myself using more items like attack items and messing with strategies I never would in the original (such as Bard Songs or Scholar's innate Item Lore), the final boss in particular going from a boring heal attack heal attack to a fight with interesting attacks and patterns that can be quite down to the wire.
Unfortunately the game barely improves on the story and the graphics are worse, the flow between areas still feels quite sporadic but it's not too bad, and the chibi-esque art isn't great. The music is fine, I really like some of the remixes but there's also an 8-bit option for people who prefer it.
Imo this is a good RPG that's fun to see the origins of the job system ,but is overall a very rough game and one of the worst Final Fantasies.
7/10 Flare Waves/10
The remake does fortunately fix some of these issues, but overall is still just a good game, which relative to other Final Fantasies, is a low bar in my opinion.
First I do wanna mention the improvements, the job system is vastly improved when it comes to character variety and abilities, now every class has some form of secondary ability that truly adds more identity to the cast, stuff such as Advance on the Warrior, Retaliate on the Knight, Barrage on the Ranger, or Soul Eater on the Dark Knight. These give these classes at least some more viability and uniqueness past "they can attack things and maybe they have a bit of magic!
Unfortunately the one downside is the job adjustment phase system, in which your stats get halved for a few battles after you change jobs, overall I managed to just continue to progress and not mind the lower stats, but this is worse than the Capacity system from the original.
I think the battles overall have been enhanced, the game is much harder and has more interesting boss fights, I found myself using more items like attack items and messing with strategies I never would in the original (such as Bard Songs or Scholar's innate Item Lore), the final boss in particular going from a boring heal attack heal attack to a fight with interesting attacks and patterns that can be quite down to the wire.
Unfortunately the game barely improves on the story and the graphics are worse, the flow between areas still feels quite sporadic but it's not too bad, and the chibi-esque art isn't great. The music is fine, I really like some of the remixes but there's also an 8-bit option for people who prefer it.
Imo this is a good RPG that's fun to see the origins of the job system ,but is overall a very rough game and one of the worst Final Fantasies.
7/10 Flare Waves/10