Great game - annoying glitches

I never played the Final Fantasy games when I was younger and they first came out state-side. On a whim (and looking for a way to waste time :) I downloaded the iOS port of FF I a couple of years ago. What a great game! And I could see why this series has endured for so long. FF II built on the first beautifully.

Recently, I downloaded the 3rd installment. I really appreciate the shift to 3D, the great gameplay, fun story, tongue-in-cheek humor, etc. I haven’t been able to put it down since I downloaded it and that’s not something I can say about most games I try out from the App Store.

The reason I’m not giving this a higher review is the fact that the game crashes so frequently. In the middle of a huge battle and get a phone call? Buh-bye; try again after the game quits to the Home screen and you have to wait through the splash screen and continue/load from a point before the battle. I see the game was updated in June of ’14 to address this sort of thing. But quite a lot has happened between then and now including iOS 8, iPhone 6/6+ and so forth.

I think Square-Enix is a great game-making company. But they seem to follow what can be considered an old model: develop a game and release it into the wild for better or worse. It’s great they’re occasionally updating games to fix issues and bugs, but not nearly frequently enough for the ever-evolving iOS platform. To the best of my knowledge, FF I & FF II are still letterboxed for pre-iPhone 5 screens (3.5”). Likewise FF Tactics. And I paid over $10 each for these games! Yeah, the content and quality justify that cost, but not SE’s seeming lack of attention to their product. I still get attention and updates to apps I paid $0.99 or nothing for, years after their original release. Sure, they are usually (but not always) nowhere near the complexity and quality of the FF series, but I’m not left wondering if every update is going to be the last, forever stuck in 3.5” screen, 32 bit whatever.

Please, Square Enix, continue to show love for your games. You’ve started to by re-releasing for different platforms, but we iOS gamers would love more attention to your ports!

PhillyB79 about FINAL FANTASY III (3D REMAKE)