11th February 2007, 8:32 PM
And with this game, I get the impression the GBA has been pushed a bit too far. This probably should have been released on the DS instead.
Yes, I actually got it. Well, it is still my favorite in the series. Unfortunatly, the port job wasn't exactly the best. First of all, graphically it is nearly identical to the original. No additional graphics in the least, as I predicted as the updated graphics in IV and V were about the same quality as FF6 originally was (even with the tiling taken into mind, as it's done VERY well). Unfortunatly, they couldn't even keep up the old graphical quality, so improving it was out of the question. The sound is sometimes different, not better, and in some cases worse in fact (various sound effects are reduced from sounding pretty much exactly as they should (train sounds) to some unintelligable "BZZT" sound effect. The special effects are a little off too. Aside from slowdown, the worst yet in these GBA ports (FFIV had some, but I barely noticed it, and FFV, as far as I can tell, doesn't really have any), there's also poorly executed ones. The "Banisher" effect no longer takes pieces of the enemy away in it's beams of light, the enemy just vanishes and the beams of light just go up empty handed. Oh, riding chocobos and the airships is pathetically slow.
Further, the extras lack some of the extras included in the PS version of the game, like the colloseum, but the beastiary does work better, basically slowly unlocked as they are encountered like in the others.
I haven't beaten it yet, so I can't say anything of the other extras. I expect the dungeon to be interesting at least.
What I can say is the translation has been redone. Now, the original SNES version got it almost spot on, so there's not much to change, but they did alter enough to give it a somewhat different feel. For the better, I think. They did, oddly enough, keep a lot of it like the original translation. Character names, I understand, but they also sort of kept other things I'd rather they translated correctly as well. All in all I think it would have been best if they had either put this on the DS or PSP.
Yes, I actually got it. Well, it is still my favorite in the series. Unfortunatly, the port job wasn't exactly the best. First of all, graphically it is nearly identical to the original. No additional graphics in the least, as I predicted as the updated graphics in IV and V were about the same quality as FF6 originally was (even with the tiling taken into mind, as it's done VERY well). Unfortunatly, they couldn't even keep up the old graphical quality, so improving it was out of the question. The sound is sometimes different, not better, and in some cases worse in fact (various sound effects are reduced from sounding pretty much exactly as they should (train sounds) to some unintelligable "BZZT" sound effect. The special effects are a little off too. Aside from slowdown, the worst yet in these GBA ports (FFIV had some, but I barely noticed it, and FFV, as far as I can tell, doesn't really have any), there's also poorly executed ones. The "Banisher" effect no longer takes pieces of the enemy away in it's beams of light, the enemy just vanishes and the beams of light just go up empty handed. Oh, riding chocobos and the airships is pathetically slow.
Further, the extras lack some of the extras included in the PS version of the game, like the colloseum, but the beastiary does work better, basically slowly unlocked as they are encountered like in the others.
I haven't beaten it yet, so I can't say anything of the other extras. I expect the dungeon to be interesting at least.
What I can say is the translation has been redone. Now, the original SNES version got it almost spot on, so there's not much to change, but they did alter enough to give it a somewhat different feel. For the better, I think. They did, oddly enough, keep a lot of it like the original translation. Character names, I understand, but they also sort of kept other things I'd rather they translated correctly as well. All in all I think it would have been best if they had either put this on the DS or PSP.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)