Released over two years after the launch of the PS2 in the US, Final Fantasy Origins featured remakes of the first 2 Famicom Final Fantasy games with sprites in the SNES style. Much like Indiana Jones surveying the potential Holy Grails from which to drink, I had to “choose wisely.”Īround a decade later, I bought Final Fantasy Origins on the PS1. I couldn’t spam the spells as much because they were of such limited quantity. Once I got used to the limited spell casting per day, I rather enjoyed it.
At first, this pissed me off I was more accustomed to gaining spells through gaining experience levels and using a pool of magic points to cast them with (not only did Dragon Warrior use this system, but the Final Fantasy series would adopt it starting with Final Fantasy IV). Each spell felt like a valuable token to be used only in emergencies against hard enemies or bosses. To make magic matters worse, you were stuck with a limited amount of spells you could cast unless you slept at an inn or in a portable house. Unlike Dragon Warrior, the first RPG I ever played, Final Fantasy required magic users to buy spells from a store. The half mile walk back home never went so fast! In the back of his vast game stash, he dug out Final Fantasy on the NES for me to borrow. Everybody wants to visit an old classic now and then, but what happens when the new versions, while more accessible to modern gamers, lose something of the original’s vim and vigor? It’s an awfully fine line between fun and frustration.īack then, I made a friend who had every video game system known to man and then some (he was the one guy with an Atari Jaguar on his Christmas list who would actually get one!).
Over the years, I’d have a chance to not just play the original game, but enough remakes to shake a Warmech at. Instead of owning the video game, all I had was a Nintendo Power Final Fantasy strategy guide jammed with well over 100 pages of maps, tactics, and so-so Western paintings of heroes, monsters, and quests. In 1991, nobody I knew had the game on the NES, and there was no internet to speak of at my house.
Final Fantasy started for me as a fantasy.
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