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Noi · (Yesterday, 05:36 AM)

I like how the Narshe cliff went from taking place at night (which is why everything is so dark) to just being completely bright.

CrackPebbles · (Yesterday, 05:36 AM)

I dislike ios gaming in general because I hate not having buttons, but other than its platform I don't see whats wrong with it, the "Its hideous" comments seem grossly exaggerated.

Pray For Death · (Yesterday, 05:36 AM)

Originally Posted by Reluctant-Hero

Hmmmm...

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

Wolves Evolve · (Yesterday, 05:36 AM)

We need to start a fan petition:

Square-Enix: Please Do Not Remake Final Fantasy 7, Please Don't.

TheFLYINGManga_Ka · (Yesterday, 05:36 AM)

Looks cleaner, possibly with a filter, but it's still a lazy effort and FFVI deserves better.

RedBoot · (Yesterday, 05:36 AM)

Originally Posted by KyanMehwulfe

.....there were houses down there?

Seriously. Never realized that before.

I think this is looking slightly better than FF5, but it's too early to tell. The only thing of any real detail we have is Terra's head.

Kadey · (Yesterday, 05:37 AM)

The game needs a proper 3d remake ala III and IV.

Teknoman · (Yesterday, 05:37 AM)

Originally Posted by CrackPebbles

I dislike ios gaming in general because I hate not having buttons, but other than its platform I don't see whats wrong with it, the "Its hideous" comments seem grossly exaggerated.

They smoothed and smudged the hell out of the character sprites and environment details, aside from the empire building.

suppadoopa · (Yesterday, 05:37 AM)

FFVI deserves better. :(

I hope no one buys this

Moonlight · (Yesterday, 05:37 AM)

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

Both screens do a disservice to the original game. That screen capture of FFVI for SNES is compressed to all hell.

encephalon · (Yesterday, 05:38 AM)

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

Probably because it looks like someone took a screen cap of a composite signal.

Lin Siniang · (Yesterday, 05:38 AM)

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

To be fair it looks like someone captured it from a sd capture card.

jschreier · (Yesterday, 05:39 AM)

They should just go all out and add Lightning as a mandatory playable character.

Syphon Filter · (Yesterday, 05:39 AM)

Originally Posted by suppadoopa

FFVI deserves better. :(

I hope no one buys this

what's wrong? looks fine to me.

Firestorm · (Yesterday, 05:40 AM)

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

I'd chalk that up to the shitty jpeg compression.

stfuppercut · (Yesterday, 05:40 AM)

Originally Posted by CrackPebbles

I dislike ios gaming in general because I hate not having buttons, but other than its platform I don't see whats wrong with it, the "Its hideous" comments seem grossly exaggerated.

I'm with you. I've got no intention of buying this or any cellphone games but if you guys want hideous just look at FF4 DS. This doesn't look awful.

hwateber · (Yesterday, 05:40 AM)

Looks better than the redone sprites in V at least

Glass Joe · (Yesterday, 05:40 AM)

They should just include original sprites as an option. Then everyone wins.

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

The original screen looks like a pretty poor, highly compressed grab.

Kodaman · (Yesterday, 05:41 AM)

Somebody stop this crime.

Tesseract · 05:47 AM

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Tripon · (Yesterday, 05:41 AM)

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

That's because he purposely picked a bad screenshot to display.

Reluctant-Hero · (Yesterday, 05:42 AM)

Originally Posted by jschreier

They should just go all out and add Lightning as a mandatory playable character.

Damn it, don't add fuel to their horrible ideas. You know they're watching. :(

Teknoman · (Yesterday, 05:42 AM)

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

Stretched but a little better quality.

Aquamarine · (Yesterday, 05:42 AM)

Here's a less compressed SNES version:

GBA port:

iOS / Android port:

Aeana · (Yesterday, 05:42 AM)

Originally Posted by Reluctant-Hero

Hmmmm...

Originally Posted by Pray For Death

As an observer who has never played the game, that original screen looks awful.

Let's try it without the terrible compression artifacts.

funkystudent · (Yesterday, 05:42 AM)

If they released this on XBL / PSN / Wii ware and it has achievements and stuff I would buy it.

Its just a shame Square hates console money.

Eaten By A Grue · (Yesterday, 05:42 AM)

The should just reuse the FFIII and FFIV remakes 3D engine. I rather them not bastardize the sprites like they are.

Mechanized · (Yesterday, 05:43 AM)

Whyyyyyyyyy do they keep using this horrible sprite style instead of sticking closer to the original? I'll buy it because I don't have a choice. For fuck sakes.

Reluctant-Hero · (Yesterday, 05:43 AM)

Originally Posted by Aeana

Let's try it without the terrible compression artifacts.

Much better screenshot, thanks!

And, yup, I'll take the original SNES release any day.

GAMERG0D · (Yesterday, 05:43 AM)

It looks okay, better than FF V. I can't believe mobile gets this and San Andreas in the same month, so much goodness.

Zulithe · (Yesterday, 05:43 AM)

Looks like they are putting a little more effort into this one. I like the text box. Sprites are big improvement over some of the recent "remasters"

But the lack of detail in the graphics that is lost in the translation is a real bummer.

There's actually some hope that I could buy it! But we'll see.

Teknoman · (Yesterday, 05:44 AM)

Originally Posted by Eaten By A Grue

The should just reuse the FFIII and FFIV remakes engine.

I'd have killed (well probably not) for a FFVI remake of IV quality with voice acting on 3DS or Vita.

EDIT: This has that bland look that Lunar PSP had.

Dark_castle · (Yesterday, 05:44 AM)

Originally Posted by KyanMehwulfe

.....there were houses down there?

Narshe.

While I still am not too fond of the RPG Maker sprites (and by extension and font and UI), I like that they re-designed the backdrops.

If they improve the game difficulty here, I might bite. FFVI is my one of my favorite RPG of all time.

hitsugi · (Yesterday, 05:45 AM)

Originally Posted by flabberghastly

We all knew this day would come. We all knew it would look soulless and disposable. Oh, well.

Should have been first post. There's nothing left to say about this.

RedBoot · (Yesterday, 05:45 AM)

Originally Posted by funkystudent

If they released this on XBL / PSN / Wii ware and it has achievements and stuff I would buy it.

Its just a shame Square hates console money.

This (and even the FF5 remake) would be nice on Vita, since the PS1 versions of these games have their own issues.

mattiewheels · (Yesterday, 05:45 AM)

I don't mind the smooth sprites, what I hate is Square's terrible English font in every iOS game. At least try.

McDougles · (Yesterday, 05:46 AM)

Can't wait to see enemies on screen to truly begin the vomiting process.

Het_Nkik · (Yesterday, 05:46 AM)

Originally Posted by Lin Siniang

Holy shit that new background for the cliff near Narshe screen is amazing. They're redoing the bgs?!

Looks exactly the same to me. Just brighter and zoomed in more so it's blurrier.

FantasticMrFoxdie · (Yesterday, 05:47 AM)

Day One (maybe)
please dont fuck this up squeenix

ivedoneyourmom · (Yesterday, 05:47 AM)

Like what I see, day 1.

Originally Posted by Teknoman

They smoothed and smudged the hell out of the character sprites and environment details, aside from the empire building.

You can't smudge or smooth detail that was never there to begin with.

Jiggaloboy · (Yesterday, 05:47 AM)

Damn that is groooooossssssssss. Original version looks way better.

Syphon Filter · (Yesterday, 05:48 AM)

Originally Posted by Jiggaloboy

Damn that is groooooossssssssss. Original version looks way better.

naw,original looks crummy.

Zeer0id · (Yesterday, 05:48 AM)

kill it

with

fire

Eusis · 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by Teletraan1

I see what you did there.

Haha, I didn't though. Gotta love double meanings.

Originally Posted by Syphon Filter

naw,original looks crummy.

Even if you feel that way I imagine someone like you might prefer, say, higher quality 3D for a remake then akin to better looking 3DS or Vita titles at a minimum then. This just looks cheap.

Rm88~ · (Yesterday, 05:49 AM)

Why? Why is the original, much lower-res version so much better looking?

RedBoot · (Yesterday, 05:50 AM)

Originally Posted by mattiewheels

I don't mind the smooth sprites, what I hate is Square's terrible English font in every iOS game. At least try.

Their fonts/UI are designed to be easily translated into various languages, so you get a crappy one size fits all approach. Sucks, but it makes development easier/cheaper.

sixteen-bit · (Yesterday, 05:50 AM)

They've got a bizarre look.

Gentleman Jack · (Yesterday, 05:50 AM)

Originally Posted by Aquamarine

Here's a less compressed SNES version:

GBA port:

iOS / Android port:

Is the GBA port substantially brightened to make up for the lack of a backlight on the GBA screens? Does that mean the mobile version will have the narshe raid start at high noon, then have it suddenly become night again as the opening credits roll?

cheststrongwell · (Yesterday, 05:50 AM)

Looks okay. Seeing Kefka in higher resolution worries me. He was one goofy looking son of a bitch in that psp game.

duckroll · (Yesterday, 05:51 AM)

Originally Posted by RedBoot

Their fonts/UI are designed to be easily translated into various languages, so you get a crappy one size fits all approach. Sucks, but it makes development easier/cheaper.

Yeah, cheap is definitely the first thing that comes to mind with these ports. It's a pity they don't care to threat their classics better!