Final Fantasy 3 was the last of the NES part of the series and the first to use the famous Job System that a few titles in the series have become quite well known for. The story follows 4 youths on their grand adventure through the lands to restore 4 crystals and save the world.
Now I like Final Fantasy 3, but fucking hell is it a really annoying game. The game itself is fine, it's basically the same as Final Fantasy 1 and 2 but it plays a lot smoother and looks a bit nicer compared to it's other 8 bit counterparts. The problems with Final Fantasy 3 really only come in when the game starts forcing jobs on you.
You can tell that Square were really proud of this system that they had implemented it and they sure as hell were going to make sure you used it. Sure, you can use a normal job setup of fighter, utility, black mage, white mage, but there are certain parts of the game where that shit just won't fly.
The one part of that game that I will never forget is the two dungeons with the monsters that multiply on hit unless you one shot them or use magic. They are found in a long dungeon and and if you let the multiplication get out of hand then you are just fucked. What you were supposed to do was change everyones job to Dark Knight and just physical attack your way through all the enemies. So not only did the dungeon take me ages because I was being hard headed about my party, but the solution to my problem was fucking boring.
The same goes for other areas of the game that will just shove a handicap on you for absolutely no reason such as any section that involves turning your party into frogs or mini people. Still, despite all my complaining about the game being a bit annoying Final Fantasy 3 is great.
The DS version is a hell of a lot easier than the NES version so really you only want to give this one a go if you're looking for a bit of a challenge. The things that I have complained about above I don't remember being an issue at all in that one.
Well, onto Final Fantasy 4, view it here
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