I just found out today that Square released the original Final Fantasy as an iPhone App!!!
The thing took forever to download, even via wifi…
…but the graphics look gorgeous!
The touch interface is admittedly a bit tricky…
…and yes, my heroes are all named after Fraggles!
Granted, I’m not sure how the playability for this will be long-term because already I can see how grinding for levels could get a bit tedious with the touch interface (you can’t just hold down the A button like you could through battles on the NES). I’m also curious to see how the battery life manages, both with the rich graphics and a full soundtrack. Honestly it’s been so long since I’ve played the PS1 port of this game, I can’t remember if these are just the new/updated graphics from that transfer, but I was still impressed of just how sharp they look on a 3″ screen!
From what I’ve gathered, they’ve also made available Final Fantasy 2 and 3 as well – not the SNES versions that are technically 4 and 6, but the original 2 and 3 from Japan. I never actually got around to playing those on the Playstation, but maybe they might be worth checking out now.
Either way, very cool iPhone port!