Dark and Divine
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FFVI coming to Android & iOS
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Oh man... well there's another thing to add to my phone that will continue to destroy my productivity. FF6 was the first Final Fantasy I played, (back when it was III, on the SNES). Such an amazing game. Probably the only one out there that universally gives 7 a run for its money on "best Final Fantasy ever" status.
Finally. Looks like this is being released in Europe today at some point, but just on android for now.
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Android/Final+Fantasy+VI+(iOS+&+Android)/news.asp?c=56626
EDIT: It is now available on Google Play.
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Android/Final+Fantasy+VI+(iOS+&+Android)/news.asp?c=56626
EDIT: It is now available on Google Play.
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How the hell did they mess it up this badly? From the previews it looked like it would be a pretty competent remake with no graphical anomalies. If Square Enix can't even manage a competent re-release of one of their old games, what possible hope is there for new titles from them?
FFVI Android image gallery & review
From what this person shows and tells...I'm actually positively impressed. This port doesn't look nearly as bad or lazy as I thought it would. There has been effort in changing the battle menus, character portraits still look good etc.
You can clearly see of course how the sprites are inspired by Lemmings-artwork. Still think that was a bad choice, but aside from that I can't really hate on this port just for being "different".
From what this person shows and tells...I'm actually positively impressed. This port doesn't look nearly as bad or lazy as I thought it would. There has been effort in changing the battle menus, character portraits still look good etc.
You can clearly see of course how the sprites are inspired by Lemmings-artwork. Still think that was a bad choice, but aside from that I can't really hate on this port just for being "different".
The biggest problem is the sprites, far and away.
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That's a very good link that does highlight how good the port is to actually play.
The graphics are rather generic, but I can forgive that because they do breathe a fresh coat of paint onto the game, and scenery in particular does benefit from it, even if the sprites are a downgrade. The world looks lush. The new battle HUD feels a little gimmicky, but it does make battles a lot easier to manage, and the music sounds ace in this.
The only major problem I have with this version is not having a fit to screen option. Seriously. With the vast array of mobile phone screen sizes out in the market nowadays, this option should be standard. I should not be forced to stare at big black borders on either side of the game screen. I should have the option to widescreen it if that is what I so prefer or choose to experience the game as, especially with the new graphics slapped onto it which would have easily accommodated this and not make it look too stretched out in such a mode.
Hopefully they remedy this in a future update.
But aside from that though, an excellent update / remake so far.
The graphics are rather generic, but I can forgive that because they do breathe a fresh coat of paint onto the game, and scenery in particular does benefit from it, even if the sprites are a downgrade. The world looks lush. The new battle HUD feels a little gimmicky, but it does make battles a lot easier to manage, and the music sounds ace in this.
The only major problem I have with this version is not having a fit to screen option. Seriously. With the vast array of mobile phone screen sizes out in the market nowadays, this option should be standard. I should not be forced to stare at big black borders on either side of the game screen. I should have the option to widescreen it if that is what I so prefer or choose to experience the game as, especially with the new graphics slapped onto it which would have easily accommodated this and not make it look too stretched out in such a mode.
Hopefully they remedy this in a future update.
But aside from that though, an excellent update / remake so far.
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The problem isn't that any individual element of the graphics looks terrible in and of itself; it's that the art styles clash horribly. Figaro is a super-detailed model, which looks like utter shite next to the sprite of Locke which looks like they just took the smudge tool in Photoshop and called it a day. The character sprites are definitely the worst part of the game; they have way less detail than anything else on the screen. The enemies and backgrounds are okay as individual elements, but the styles still don't go very well together. They also washed out some of the detail in making everything brighter, but that's almost to be expected on a cell phone port since they have to compensate for the fact that people are going to be playing the game in broad daylight.
Someone posted this as a comment on Kotaku and I can't emphasize how much better it would have looked:
The character sprites actually have more detail than they did in the original and none of the art styles conflict with one another.
There are a few new features that look like improvements; Cyan's Bushido in particular looks like it will finally actually not completely suck. But on the whole I don't regard this as an improvement.
Someone posted this as a comment on Kotaku and I can't emphasize how much better it would have looked:
The character sprites actually have more detail than they did in the original and none of the art styles conflict with one another.
There are a few new features that look like improvements; Cyan's Bushido in particular looks like it will finally actually not completely suck. But on the whole I don't regard this as an improvement.
The sprites are definitely the worst part of the game.
That does look REALLY good.
Someone posted this as a comment on Kotaku and I can't emphasize how much better it would have looked:
The character sprites actually have more detail than they did in the original and none of the art styles conflict with one another.
That does look REALLY good.
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I like the battle menu revamps, some of the graphics look lovely and I'm sure the music is great but that's not enough to convince me, unfortunately having to see a spelling error within the first few moments of dialogue and horrible sprites has ruined any hope I had for this to be a successful revamp, honestly how could they be so careless with the translations?
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http://kotaku.com/major-glitch-makes-final-fantasy-vi-unbeatable-on-andro-1505100344
To be fair FFVI already had plenty of glitches and things with the original code/game anyway. If they had to work with that code while doing the updated versions mistakes wouldn't/don't surprise me *imagines new dev team trying to get through that minefield* and being like wow this is far out ... wait how did I get the airship outside Narsh
And things 
To be fair FFVI already had plenty of glitches and things with the original code/game anyway. If they had to work with that code while doing the updated versions mistakes wouldn't/don't surprise me *imagines new dev team trying to get through that minefield* and being like wow this is far out ... wait how did I get the airship outside Narsh
And things 
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yeah, i'm not feeling the sprites they're using with this and ffv
is this a new translation/localisation? given that they managed to misspell a word within the first few minutes. i mean, they must have like 4 scripts at this point
is this a new translation/localisation? given that they managed to misspell a word within the first few minutes. i mean, they must have like 4 scripts at this point