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FFIII is on the DS/PSP is a decent enough remake that does an alright job of giving the protagonists some personalities and giving the narrative a bit more meat (still pretty "generic" by today's standards, but you can't really help that given it's an update to an old NES story), but it can get kind of grindy and has some weird difficulty spikes.

The Pixel Remaster version is easier and I personally prefer the 2D visuals, but it goes back to the original NES story and removes the player characters' personalities making the narrative feel basically just as thin as it did in FFI. I love the job system though, and the Pixel Remaster made that even better by removing the penalties for switching jobs.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

people talk about how bad 2 was.

Pure slander. FFII is a fine game (at least the modern releases) with some good characters and a decent enough story considering it came from the NES era. Its only issues are that it's a bit removed from the rest of the series mechanically speaking (though that doesn't make the leveling mechanics bad, per se) and that the non-Pixel Remaster versions are a bit grindy, especially since most of the guest party members come to you with poor stats and little or no magic.