Introduction
Hello, I'm Cool Ghost. In this thread, I will be doing an LP of the DS remake of Final Fantasy III.
What is Final Fantasy III?
Final Fantasy III is a game, originally released by Square for the Famicom in 1990. It was an 8-bit game with cover art that looked like this:
That's not the version I'm playing, though. The version I'm playing was released by Square-Enix for the DS in 2006. For the longest time (16 years, give or take), this was the only main series Final Fantasy game that hadn't been released in English. It was also the first main series Final Fantasy game to be remade for the DS (followed by Final Fantasy IV). It's a 3D game with cover art that looks like this:
(In Japan and Europe, anyway. If you're worried about the North American cover art, look at the logo at the top and then imagine a white square around that. Give or take some words and markings and you've got it.)
In a lot of ways, this is a very early Final Fantasy game. Things were revamped and updated for the modern era, but the basic structure is still very old-school and a lot of modern convenience features aren't here. A lot of modern inconveniences are also missing, though, which is nice.
The Structure of the LP
This will be a screenshot LP. All screenshots, all the time. I'm planning on keeping a twice-weekly update schedule (on Mondays and Fridays), but something will probably come up and I will probably miss an update or two here and there. Don't worry about it too much. If there's a lot of posting and I feel like it, I might throw in a third weekly update on Wednesdays.
ON SPOILERSDon't spoil things from this game. Unmarked, marked, spoiler tagged, hidden in the background of a linked image, none of that stuff is cool. No spoilers.
I've probably missed something here, but let's get this show on the road anyway!
Table of Contents
- Part One: Falling Into a Hole
- Part Two: Nerd Defender
- Part Three: Spooky Town
- Part Four: The Gang's All Here
- Part Five: Sealed Cave Prep and Mechanics Talk
- Part Six: Down to Business
- Part Seven: Back to Normal
- Part Eight: Incredible Drama
- Part Nine: Exploring Canaan
- Part Ten: A Bad Place for Children
- Part Eleven: A Useless Little Town
- Part Twelve: No Boat Stuff
- Part Thirteen: The One-Eyed Serpent
- Part Fourteen: Enterprising
- Part Fifteen: Child Rescue Squad
- Part Sixteen: Exposition Exploration
- Part Seventeen: A Bit More Flavour
- Part Eighteen: The Tower of Owen (First Part)
- Part Nineteen: The Tower of Owen (Second Part)
- Part Twenty: On the Sea Again
- Part Twenty-One: Underground Beachfront Property
- Part Twenty-Two: Fire Walking
- Part Twenty-Three: Tooling Around
- Part Twenty-Four: Academic Malpractice
- Part Twenty-Five: Castle Hein Postgame Show
- Part Twenty-Six: The Airship Enterprise
- Part Twenty-Seven: Cave of Pains in My Ass
- Part Twenty-Eight: Whole New World
- Part Twenty-Nine: Sewer Level
- Part Thirty: Home Invasion
- Part Thirty-One: Explorers of the New World
- Part Thirty-Two: Civil War
- Part Thirty-Three: Somebody Dies, I Promise to God
- Part Thirty-Four: An Album by The Smiths, or Maybe The Decemberists
- Part Thirty-Five: Getting Back to the Task at Hand
- Part Thirty-Six: Doga Party
- Part Thirty-Seven: Bards and Bullshit
- Part Thirty-Eight: Shitty Temple at the Bottom of the Ocean
- Part Thirty-Nine: Waking Up
- Part Forty: Vehicle Searchin'
- Part Forty-One: The Invincible
- Part Forty-Two: Gimmicks Ain't Shit
- Part Forty-Three: Rare Earth Crystals
- Part Forty-Four: The Knight
- Part Forty-Five: One-Job Town
- Part Forty-Six: The Sea Serpent
- Part Forty-Seven: The Dragon King
- Part Forty-Eight: Magic Circle Shitheads
- Part Forty-Nine: Ancients' Straight Path With a Couple of Treasures Slightly Aside
- Part Fifty: Magic Alternate Cave Dimension
- Part Fifty-One: Forbidden Weapons Round-Up
- Part Fifty-Two: Blehh. Bleurgh.
- Part Fifty-Three: The End of Xande
- Part Fifty-Four: Comeback
- Part Fifty-Five: World of Darkness I
- Part Fifty-Six: World of Darkness II
- Part Fifty-Seven: World of Darkness III
- Part Fifty-Eight: World of Darkness IV
- Part Fifty-Nine: Cloud of Darkness
- Part Sixty: End of the Adventure
- Bonus Part: Mognet Side Content
Job Profiles
- Job Profile: Freelancer
- Job Profile: Warrior
- Job Profile: Monk
- Job Profile: White Mage
- Job Profile: Black Mage
- Job Profile: Red Mage
- Job Profile: Thief
- Job Profile: Onion Knight
- Job Profile: Ranger
- Job Profile: Knight
- Job Profile: Scholar
- Job Profile: Geomancer
- Job Profile: Dragoon
- Job Profile: Viking
- Job Profile: Dark Knight
- Job Profile: Evoker
- Job Profile: Bard
- Job Profile: Black Belt
- Job Profile: Devout
- Job Profile: Magus
- Job Profile: Summoner
- Job Profile: Sage
- Job Profile: Ninja
Addenda
- Addendum: Official Art
- Addendum: Party Construction in Final Fantasy III DS
- Addendum: The Timeline of Final Fantasy III
Fan Creations
Upon seeing my pixellated 150% resize portraits for character dialogue, megane hooks the thread up with some fine replacements:
They're even colour-coded!