Final Fantasy - Nintendo
Richard Cavin
on the game. Is it good, challenging? Does it game save or password
features? I've played a ton of nintendo games and have learned to be
real cautious about some of the new releases that are coming out. They
are just pure junk. A lot of old C-64 games are showing up! Anyway,
comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Richard
PS - I'll post a top ten of my favorite Nintendo Games if anyone
is interested.
David Rodal
I say it featured in nintendo power, In the magazine it looked like it could be
a great game. It LOOKED cool, I however have to agree with you in that looks
can be decieving (sp???). I would be very interested in knowing more about
it from someone who knows. Cause I am very interested in it if it is as good
as it looked in the article....
David Rodal
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>Has anyone played Final Fantasy on the nintendo. Looking for comments
SYNOPSIS: If you liked Dragon Warrior, buy Final Fantasy.
Well I had been anticipating this release for a few months, biding my time.
I was getting bored of beating on Baseball Stars so finally I broke down and
went out to find it. I looked all over the damn place to no avail. I was
about to give up and leave when I walked past a KayBee toy store and decided
to check it out. Lo and behold, they had it! ($47.98) I quickly scooped it
up in my sweaty little hands and ran home with it.
First off, this game is very similiar to Dragon Warrior, except better. You
get four guys this time around, picking from Fighter, Thief, Black Belt,
Red, White, and Black Mages.
The fighting in FF is more fun than in DW because your four guys take on from
one to nine enemy guys at once and you can use different spells in addition to
traditional mano-a-monstero. Otherwise combat is pretty much the same as DW.
I got real bored with building up my levels in DW, but so far I haven't gotten
all that bored in FF. The variety monsters is much better in FF.
I also like the fact that they provide you with maps so you don't have to
spend hours mapping out your world, which would get incredibly tedious in
a world as big as FF (it is a fairly gigantic world). It also has a neat
little onscreen map function which is almost useful.
I don't like the fact that the instruction manual is a virtual walk-through
of the game. My advice is to use the book to learn game basics, then lose it
and figure out the plot on your own.
A BIG dissapointment, though, is that the save mechanism sucks. No password is
needed. So after I played the game a couple of hours, my roommate accidently
erased my game by picking New Game instead of Continue. Without so much as an
"Are you sure?", my game was vaporized. So if anybody else uses your deck,
better lock up that game.
This game is a serious time consumer. I can tell its going to take much longer
than DW did. It has the potential to become a chore, but hasn't become one
yet. I would have to give it a thumbs-up so far, with advance warning that
this hasn't passed the test of time yet. Caveat Emptor.
Let me know what you think.
Mark Marino
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Jim Adams
Just picked it up Tuesday. After two intensive nights of playing, I
still like it. It does have a battery save feature. Unlike Zelda,
however, you can only run one party at a time. The game involves a lot
of hack and slash to build up experience. The hack and slash, though, is
not a "hand/eye coordination" challange, but a brain against brawn type.
Basicly, you tell your characters (a party of four) how to fight and a
round robin insues against the monsters. Different things work differently
against different monsters.
The worst part about it the game, IMHO, is that the 80+ page booklet that
comes as the instructions tells you how to win and what to do to win as it
tells you how to play. Even then, it is hard to glean the instructions out.
I found myself just glancing at the book and then trying the game to see
what happens. The game also comes with a map of the world. All this help
is a little puzzling to me. It takes much of the challenge out of solving
the puzzle and puts it to winning with different characters.
One of the nicest things, thought, is they give you a chart of weapons
and armour and list how good each thing is. Very useful.
I would say get it.
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