![]() ![]() ![]() Video game preservation is a big topic in the gaming sphere because many companies fail to ensure their back catalogue remain playable to a public interested in the history of the medium. ![]() Should dialogue boxes have faces? Is the Kaiser dragon dungeon still part of the journey? Have famous glitches like Wind God Gau been preserved or “fixed”? There are so many minor iterations on the game in the name of bringing it to a new audience that it’s beginning to lose all sense of actual self. It's also very weird that a game which is almost 30 years old still can’t seem to find a definitive identity, especially one that was lauded as damn near perfect when it was released. Only the soundtrack truly soars now, especially in the redone opera scene, but that alone isn’t worth $18. Spell effects and backgrounds have been updated, but now they seem like cheap gimmicks shoved into the world like a crappy magician who bothers you while you’re eating dinner. It’s the video game equivalent of photoshopping every fold and wrinkle out of a model until they drop into the uncanny valley. The original art hasn’t been updated so much as smoothed over until everything looks like lifeless, shiny plastic. I watched a lot of gameplay reviews of the Pixel Remaster, and the more I did the more I felt like the whole thing was a scam meant to prey on damaged millennials longing for the carefree days of the 1990s. I was all set to do it a fifth time now that the Pixel Remaster has just been released on Steam and iOS, but maybe it’s time to break up with the game. Once on the original SNES when it was still called Final Fantasy III, twice on the PlayStation on both disc and the online store, and once again for the Game Boy Advance version that had a new dungeon. Since Final Fantasy VI was released in 1994, I’ve bought it four times. ![]()
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