FINAL FANTASY II

show.

Will this go down as a Final Fantasy 2 style decision in the history

books? My

understanding is they committed to the original Western release.

Yeah.

Graphics quality post-modernize.

Yeek is the Final Fantasy 2 of JRPGs.

All right.

Like, which one of these is real and which one of them is fake, right?

I'm going to say the fake one's the Final Fantasy 2 one.

You are correct.

That is the one that is

Are you not amazed? Are you not entertained, Tim?

Yeah, I would say to Chris, I haven't kept up on Final Fantasy, but I look at this 8-bit, this brings me back to the Final Fantasy that I know in terms of Final Fantasy II was one that I played from start to finish.

All the way to the very final boss that I never beat.

And I don't know.

I will listen to Saga music all the time.

As far as playing the games, I won't even play Final Fantasy II.

Well, you might enjoy Romancing Saga 3.

It's really good production quality, production values.

Awesome.

I remember, I think Smoo and I had, had futzed around with an FF2 translation patch, um, But yeah, I was not really up on that kind of thing.

Like I was aware of the FFs that we missed because at this point I was posting on the RP Gamer Final Fantasy message boards where of course we're all nerds here.

It's common knowledge.

Like, Zelda II was nothing like Zelda I.

Uh, Final Fantasy II ma- took, it made big changes.

In general, this is, this is true of just a lot of-

E- Ys III became a side-scroller.

... or Final Fantasy.

It was a hit.

And then the very next game does so much to change, like in Final Fantasy II's case-

Yeah.

And so happened to be.

The cover game is Final Fantasy II, Might, Mystery, and Magic.

And, yeah, it's a pretty cool, like, this guy on the back of, like, an eagle with a sword drawn, like, with the moon, massive moon at nighttime shining over this keep.

Yeah, I like that cover because it has actually nothing to do with Final Fantasy 2.

And you can see our little friend Nestor, the then mascot of Nintendo Power, with the derpy face and the weird hair and, you know, all that charm from the early 90s, late 80s.

Some of the games that were featured on this issue, Volume 30, on the NES.

Flintstones, Final Fantasy II, 4.

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? So I didn't know that there was...

Release.

And, and the publishers called it Final Fantasy II, because they hadn't received Final Fantasy II or III.

So, and then they released Final Fantasy VI in North America, and they called it Final Fantasy III, which is what led to the Final Fantasy I, II, and III in the US and why it's confusing.

I see.

But, but we never had that problem, because we never got anything, and we just got VII.