It was OK. I enjoyed the combat a lot but the gameplay feels incredibly dated otherwise - especially the boring repetitive quest designs. I know it's only a remaster of the original game, but shame they didn't give it a more comprehensive overhaul as a legit remake. A lot of the mini-games are bad and I found most of the gameplay outside of the combat quite boring, especially mandatory fetch questing to push the story forward.

Story and especially the dialogue are insanely corny even for FF standards. Sometimes it's funny and charming, sometimes it's just obnoxious and lame.

I respect it for having a fairly short golden path though; I beat it in around 12 hours and that included like an hour of grinding the training missions. It was an easy game to play through, though if you actually want a challenge it's definitely worth playing on Hard.

Feels like a straight-to-video spin-off of the main FF series, which I guess is appropriate. Enjoyable to a point but the combat did so much of the heavy lifting for me.

Reviewed on Dec 24, 2022


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