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. WW: May 27, 2014Mode(s), (remake only)Final Fantasy III is a developed and published by for the.
The third installment in the series, it was released in 1990. It is the first numbered Final Fantasy game to feature the. The story revolves around four orphaned youths drawn to a crystal of light. The crystal grants them some of its power, and instructs them to go forth and restore balance to the world. Not knowing what to make of the crystal's pronouncements, but nonetheless recognizing the importance of its words, the four inform their adoptive families of their mission and set out to explore and bring back balance to the world.The game was originally released in Japan on April 27, 1990. The original Famicom version sold 1.4 million copies in Japan. It had not been released outside Japan until a was developed by for the on August 24, 2006.
At that time, it was the only Final Fantasy game not previously released in North America or Europe. There had been earlier plans to remake the game for 's handheld, as had been done with the first, second, and fourth installments of the series, but the game faced several delays and was eventually canceled after the premature cancellation of the platform. The version of the game was positively received, selling nearly 2 million copies worldwide.It was also released for many other systems: the Japanese Famicom version via the on July 21, 2009 and January 8, 2014 , an port of the remake on March 24, 2011, an port on March 12, 2012, a port in late September 2012 (downloadable-only format outside Japan via ) and a port via in 2014. The battle screen. Messages such as 'Miss' appear in text boxes, like earlier games in the series.
Animated messages or digits are also shown on the characters, like later games.The gameplay of Final Fantasy III combines elements of the first two Final Fantasy games with new features. The combat system remains in place from the first two games, but are now shown above the target following attacks or healing actions, rather than captioned as in the previous two games. Auto-targeting for physical attacks after a friendly or enemy unit is killed is also featured for the first time. Unlike subsequent games in the series, magical attacks are not auto-targeted in the same fashion.The system featured in makes a return following its absence from.
The system featured in the first game also reappears, with some modifications. Whereas in the original game the player chooses each character's class alignment at the start of the game and is then locked into that class for the duration of the game, Final Fantasy III introduces the 'job system' for which the series would later become famous. Jobs are presented as interchangeable classes: in the Famicom version of the game, all four characters begin as ', with a variety of additional jobs becoming available as the game progresses. Any playable character has access to every currently available job and can change from job to job at will. Switching jobs consumes 'capacity points' which are awarded to the entire party following every battle, much like. Different, and are utilized by each job. A character's level of proficiency at a particular job increases the longer the character remains with that job.
Higher job levels increase the battle statistics of the character and reduce the cost in capacity points to switch to that job.Final Fantasy III is the first game in the series to feature special battle commands such as 'Steal' or 'Jump', each of which is associated with a particular job ('Steal' is the specialty, whilst 'Jump' is the Dragoon's forte). Certain jobs also feature innate, non-battle abilities, such as the Thief's ability to open passages that would otherwise require a special key item. Final Fantasy III is also the first game in the series to feature, which are called forth with the 'Summon' skill.
Plot Setting One thousand years before the events in the game, on a floating continent hovering high above the surface of an unnamed planet, a technologically advanced civilization sought to harness the power of the four crystals of light. They did not realize that they could not control such fundamental forces of nature. This power of light would have consumed the world itself had the light crystals not had their natural counterparts: the four dark elemental crystals. Disturbed by the sudden interruption of the careful balance between light and dark, four warriors were granted the power of the dark crystals to recapture the power of the light crystals. These so-called Dark Warriors succeeded in their quest, and restored harmony to the world. But their victory came too late to save the doomed civilization, whose culture was reduced to ruin, though their floating continent remained.
On that continent, the circle of Gulgans, a race of blind and fortune-tellers, predicted that these events will ultimately repeat. Characters. — Hiromichi Tanaka 3D remake Following the failure to remake the game for the WonderSwan Color, and Square's merger with former competitor to form Enix in 2003, the company posted assurance that the game's promised remake would not be completely forgotten, and there was speculation that it might find its way to 's or Nintendo's as its predecessors had. Considered porting the game to the, but was eventually convinced by Nintendo to develop the title for their new handheld system, the, a decision that would later be positively reinforced by the commercial success of the. The Final Fantasy III remake was first announced on October 24, 2004, but detailed information did not emerge for a year. Hiromichi Tanaka headed the project as both the executive producer and director. His guidance and supervision were needed because the remake was not a mere graphical update as Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II 's remakes were, but a total overhaul using the Nintendo DS's capabilities.
Along with 3D graphics, a opening scene was produced for the game, similar to those found in the ports of the 2D Final Fantasy games for the. Programming was handled by developer.