šŸ’Ž The Beginner Final Fantasy Club (BFFC)

Japanese Language Book Clubs
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But we already talked about Manaā€¦ :rofl:

Tl;dr In Europe, Mystic Quest was the name used for the first game in the Mana series.

In the USA, Mystic Quest was the name used for the game called Final Fantasy USA in Japan and Final Fantasy Legend in Europe.

Of course in the US, Final Fantasy Legend was the name of the first game in the SaGa seriesā€¦

(If you thought the ff3/6 thing was badā€¦)

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i specifically said final fantasy usa :stuck_out_tongue:
itā€™s for the super nintendo, and is probably my favourite game ever :heart_eyes:

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I know, I couldnā€™t leave a chance to bash early Squareā€™s naming practices alone though!

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I donā€™t understand the implication of calling it ā€œFinal Fantasy USAā€ in Japaneseā€¦ Iā€™ll have to give it a try I suppose.

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Are there guns? :rofl::face_with_peeking_eye:

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I was imagining an FF1-style party in the world of GTA Vice City. Masamune is a sniper rifle. Cid deals in stolen cars. There are chocobos for some reason.

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You knowā€¦ Iā€™d play thatā€¦

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yā€™knowā€¦ now that i know the series was originally based on d&d, it really doesnā€™t make sense that they thought americans wouldnā€™t understand how to play

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Added my name to the list. Seeing the table laid out like that, Iā€™m very tempted to hop on FF11 and be the first person with a checkmarkā€¦ I do own it, but like, l o l.

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I finished transcribing what I expect will be week 1 of FF3. I end up at nearly 4k characters, but almost all of that is optional and itā€™s a nice little self-contained arc so I donā€™t want to break it across multiple weeks.

I may do a double-week to give people more time to get into it though, since thereā€™s also the new job system to get used to.

Iā€™m pretty excited to play this one with the club to be honest, itā€™s starting to really feel like a ā€œproperā€ Final Fantasy in terms of world building and tone.

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Iā€™m really curious to know how the DS version and the PR version compare. Not sure yet if Iā€™ll be going back to home (as in 実家) before the club start but if I do Iā€™ll try to grab my old DS and see if itā€™s still boots!

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The beginning is likely to be the most different as your characters all have individual backstories in FF3D but are nameless warriors of light in other versions of FF3, so all the character intro stuff will be 3D exclusive

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Yeah the very early content diverges quite a bit in the 3D version, but it seems that the rest of the game follows exactly the same structure so it should be possible to follow along with the club.

I suspect that the 3D version has quite a bit of extra Japanese as a result though.

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FF3 is the only classic one Iā€™ve never played, so Iā€™m REALLY excited for it. It not having a GBA port and maybe the fact you went back to nameless characters probably put me off a bit at the time. Also not a big fan of the 3D models on the ds, I liked the sprite work of the GBA ports a lot more.
Now Iā€™m actually looking forward to making up another party of heroes. I had a lot of fun picturing my party in FF1 week to week, and the jobs in FF3 are going to make that even more fun.

Also it seems that FF3 in particular gets a LOT of references in the FF14 plot which Iā€™m playing at the moment, so Iā€™m really curious to see how many more references I will be able to understand once weā€™ve played itā€¦

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It does!! Iā€™ve played both versions, 3D first. When I played 2D later I was flabbergasted by how much less dialogue there was haha.

Iā€™ve got a soft spot for the 3D version, Iā€™m super excited to replay and to see what everyone else thinks about FF3 in general. :fire:

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Yeah, I think itā€™s tied between FF3 and FF6 for which of the FF games has the most references in FF14.

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Final Fantasy 3 (3D remake), Final Fantasy VIII Remastered and Final Fantasy IX have just landed on GoG and are on sale:

Note that this FFIX version does not seem to support Japanese.

Iā€™m personally not too fond of the look of FFVIII Remastered but it may just be me being a purist. Steam does have the original FFVIII PC version butā€¦ it doesnā€™t support Japanese.

So to summarize the state of digital download versions of the PS1 FF games on PC as far as I know:

Game On Steam On GoG Supports Japanese
Final Fantasy VII :white_check_mark: :cross_mark: :cross_mark:
Final Fantasy VIII (original PC version ) :white_check_mark: :cross_mark: :cross_mark:
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark:
Final Fantasy IX :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :cross_mark:

So yeah, things get messy once we run out of the Pixel Remastersā€¦

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Do the Switch versions support Japanese by changing the systemā€™s language? I was hoping for that to be the case so I could play them there.
Searching online it seems that they allowed to do it on ps4

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Do the games support Japanese:

Game European Switch store Japanese Switch Store
Final Fantasy VII :japan: :japan:
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered :japan: :japan:
Final Fantasy IX :cross_mark: :japan:

The Japanese version of FFIX also lists English, Spanish, French, German and Italian as being supported, so no idea why Japanese is not available in the EU version.