Good game, poor app – FINAL FANTASY VI (Old Ver.) Review

I never played this title back in the day. I started on Final Fantasy IX, then X, then XII, then back to VII. I played the first two on mobile as well. Couldn’t play much on X-2 or XIII because they both sucked, and didn’t get the chance on VIII. So with that background, I wanted to try out the last of the 16-but era. I’m not interested in a 3D remake of a 2D game. I usually don’t like such changes in art style, but as I didn’t play the original, I don’t miss it, and at least there’s some censorship removed, only more lenient version is PS1, and I won’t deal with load times. Anyway, I’m about the halfway point now, leveling characters abilities up. All I can say on this app is you better save your game every 5 minutes, because it crashes quite often for no reason. And cloud saving crashes it about half the time, although at least you don’t lose progress there. I’m using an iPhone 8 Plus with the latest update. Not sure if it’s simply Apples iOS updates breaking these games, or that the game developers have gotten lazy. I’ve read many reviews that say this is a sloppy port. Gotta say, up until FF13 it seems Square put forth a better effort. FF12 is easily the best of the 3D for playability, 10 for the linear story, and 9 is still my favorite as it was my first.
Review by Jdawg909 on FINAL FANTASY VI (Old Ver.).