Collection essentials #606: Final Fantasy III (DS)
This is a remake of Final Fantasy III on the Famicom (Japanese NES), which I’ve already written about. You can read my past post here . In the late ‘90s, when Final Fantasy was more popular than it had ever been, Square got into the habit of porting or remaking the earlier games in the series to various platforms. It started with the three SNES titles getting ported to PlayStation. Then, a handheld console exclusive to Japan called the WonderSwan (released by Bandai and designed with the help of Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi) was blessed with remakes of a few retro Final Fantasy games, including enhanced versions of Final Fantasy I and II and a downgraded version of Final Fantasy IV. A remake of III was planned, but never released. The remakes of the first two games were spruced up and released on the original PlayStation in the early 2000s, but III was still left out. As the middle of the 2000s decade drew near, Final Fantasy III oddly became somewhat of a neglected, mysterious entry ...