I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much. With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations for magic abilities (especially ultima which really needed it from the original lol) however there are a few things I don’t remember being in the original. Those being status effects guaranteed to hit you unless you are very high level, the ATROCIOUS “Rng” battles (literally a fight every few steps), and the most important of them all - and the reason why I gave 2 stars - THERES NO SOUL OF REBIRTH MODE. If I’m paying $10 for a 20 year old game remastered you should at least throw in the modes that were in the original. It’s such a shame and feels scammy not to include it. Ps. I think post lv10 thunder animation on the original version is better than the remastered.

该版本没有包含重生之魂

Missing controller support

This app did the absolute bare minimum in terms of upgrades. Visually the same as past ports yet they managed to remove the postgame. This is a port that's lesser than previous ports and if I could request a refund I would.

Please add support for the Backbone app

This is by far the worst game in the ff 1 to 6 bundle. It’s about as much fun as playing ff Mystic Quest. (& if you’ve never played ff Mystic Quest, good for you!) The characters mostly don’t have any class restrictions, which means they can use just any weapon or spell, which means functionally, every character is more or less the same as every other. You need to level your weapon skills, a feature that would later reappear in Secret of Mana. (The plot of this story is also quite similar to Secret of Mana’s.) You need to build your magic skills as well. The landscape of this world can be more than a little aggravating, so use the transportation options available to you. The ending is a little too “Flash Gordon” and therefore tedious for my taste.

I am impressed by how much boost adds. They just updated it to match the console versions for getting quadruple Gil/experience (stat, spell or weapon level buffs in this game), turning off random encounters (helps with backtracking or going to Mysidia early for better weapons, or Holy if you’re rich) and even have controller support and a dash button. I never imagined being unarmed would be viable (with berserk helping push past those defensive walls), though I recommend shields for mage types, double shielding (for better evasion) the turns you use magic in as you can now equip mid battle, as you cannot physically attack with a shield anyway. The fact you don’t have to rely on unintuitive strategies like hitting yourself to get stronger (and using group magic to slowly buff it) or fixing such slow growth that Ultima was unplayable as you needed to be well rounded in all spells/weapons tremendously improves this game. You can even get overpowered by attacking and evading with 2 equipped shields when older versions didn’t let you attack. The only minor issues I have are that: they nerfed teleport to not auto kill, they patched out dual wield killing 2 enemies (which prioritizes shields protecting you unless you get an early flame/ice bow or try unarmed) and there are no gameplay extras like soul of rebirth postgame (dead party members who transferred equipment if you had the foresight with blood sword for a difficult Ultima weapon battle) or the arcane labyrinth (using key words learned from the plot that made their own dungeons to make stat grinding more unique, though boost no longer needs this filler). Overall, these fixes (and improved music though you can’t choose the original unlike console) help minimize the issues I had with past versions, and shutting off random encounters (as well as having maps available) helps stop the trap doors encounters and needing to overpay for Cid’s one way expensive airship (quadruple gold fixes this) from being nuisances.

Would love to make iPhone a capable console for playing games like Final Fantasy!

The game is amazing. Full of nostalgic memories from my past. I purchase all Final Fantasy content. Within this game is a really annoying bug to overlook. All enemy attacks inflict their status affects 100% of the time.

I love the early final fantasies and just purchased the bundle of the first six. I would love to see these games with controller support!