/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8579762
FF3 on WonderSwan

>>7426820
The sad part is, we were so close to living in the timeline where Final Fantasy III was released on WonderSwan Color and then ported to PlayStation. Then Square saw which direction the winds were blowing with the WonderSwan Color and got greedy. "Let's cancel III and give them a quick crummy port of IV as a consolation prize, III deserves to be remade on PLAYSTATION 2!" Cue Sony: "Square, we love you, but no way in hell are you releasing a decade-old game on our PS2, come back when you have something new," causing Square Enix to eventually resort to Nintendo DS to salvage the concept in truncated, butchered form. And this is "good enough."

>>7340150
Yeah, but FFII was the black sheep of the classic era to the point where even the crystals barely have anything to do with how they are in the Sakaguchi-directed games. I think this is the one case where you can argue that the post-WonderSwan Color release was objectively better than the original, since the original was so "experimental" (read: sloppy). Now why we got the crummy handheld port of FFIV instead of FFIII, your guess is as good as mine, but the issues raised by >>7341667 such as the DS hardware limitations of the monster number in battle (which was resolved by FFIV 3D) wouldn't have crept their way in every rerelease since I assure you. In both versions, I think Onion Knight is still by far the gamebreaking class if you play your cards right, or at least it eventually outdoes the Ninja.

>>5633607

>>2422474
Front Mission and Riveria are actually 2002 releases. The Wonderswan didn't had that long of a lifespan, since practically all the third party support was dropped in 2002 and it was eventually discontinued by 2004. Shame that Final Fantasy III remake was scrapped though. I didn't like the 3D remake on Nintendo DS and that seems to be the only version being ported nowadays.