Final Fantasy I & II Coming to iPhone/iPod Touch

DRagon Quest or Chrono Trigger would be nice.

"fins4o8 wrote:

DRagon Quest or Chrono Trigger would be nice.

I'm not sure how well Chrono Trigger would translate to the iPhone's touch controls. CT requires some pretty precise movement at times.

woot!

"Desides wrote:

I'm not sure how well Chrono Trigger would translate to the iPhone's touch controls. CT requires some pretty precise movement at times.

Would be nice if they did nevertheless, one could only dream.

"fins4o8 wrote:

DRagon Quest or Chrono Trigger would be nice.

Ditto

Trailer's out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuj7dwnEgnA

Game's available on the App Store now. iLounge has a review, and they score it a B (translates to about an 8.5/10), but it's written for those who've never even heard of Final Fantasy before. Example

A blue box displaying character stats appears in the bottom-right corner whenever you’re not moving. Touching this box brings up the in-game options menu which provides more detailed character status, access to inventory items and the game’s save and configuration options. Tapping on a character will bring up even more detailed statistics; each character has a number of different attributes that are initially determined by their character class and increased as the character gains more experience in battle and completes various quests.

Anyway, slightly more practical comments about saving and the touch controls:

Your progress within the game is automatically saved so that you can resume from where you left off after returning to the app. You can also manually save your game in one of the three provided save game slots. There appears to be no way to load a saved game or start a new game from within the app itself—you must exit the app and then reload it in order to access the main menu on the opening screen. Note that you cannot save your game during a battle nor is it automatically saved—exiting and reopening the game during a battle will resume in your location prior to the encounter.

For the most part the on-screen control system works quite well, although the ability to tap anywhere on the screen to initiate a conversation with a character and progress though the conversation sometimes caused a bit of frustration—we found ourselves restarting the same conversation by tapping the screen one too many times. Gamers accustomed to full freedom of analog joystick movement will find Final Fantasy’s limited, two-axis character movement to be a little cumbersome, as the on-screen touchpad only lets you move up, down, left, or right when navigating the world map; there’s a tendency to want to slide your finger around the touchpad to change direction, and since characters cannot move diagonally the controls end up feeling a bit unresponsive as your characters make the sharp 90 degree turn. Lifting your finger from one arrow button and tapping the button for another direction works much better but feels less natural.

$9 gets you the full bundle. Honestly, it's worth it.

I would kill for a nice port of Chrono Trigger...

I just played through FF1 this week on JNES. some people have that book that they reread once a year.. i have FF1. god i love that game