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FINAL FANTASY II
SQUARE ENIX · 96 ratings · ★ 3.9
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Top complaints - extracted from 18 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
9 negative reviews mention this · 50% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Major flaw. Couldn’t get white wizard Minwu to join party and thus couldn’t move forward in game. This happens early on and it seems to be a problem that a lot players have. Waste of money." - genaricnickname
2
"controller"
7 negative reviews mention this · 39% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Controller support. Controller support" - Lettyus
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"support"
7 negative reviews mention this · 39% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Controller support. Controller support" - Lettyus
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"controller support"
7 negative reviews mention this · 39% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Controller support. Controller support" - Lettyus
5
"version"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Choppy scrolling. An issue across all of these remasters. The choppy scrolling hurts my eyes and renders these version unplayable for me. It’s unfortunate, as these have the potential to be the best versions of these games" - clcarrow
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"music"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Impressive remake - however. I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much. With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations f…" - Legiondary
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"status"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Impressive remake - however. I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much. With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations f…" - Legiondary
8
"final"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Impressive remake - however. I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much. With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations f…" - Legiondary
9
"playing"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Impressive remake - however. I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much. With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations f…" - Legiondary
10
"right"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Impressive remake - however. I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much. With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations f…" - Legiondary
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"enemy"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game-Breaking Bug. No controller support is incredibly disappointing. Any enemy that has an attack with a status effect will cause that effect 100% of the time. Makes sections of the game almost unplayable. Game has been out long enough this should have bee…" - Cormag
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"battle"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Impressive remake - however. I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much. With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations f…" - Legiondary
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Major flaw
Couldn’t get white wizard Minwu to join party and thus couldn’t move forward in game. This happens early on and it seems to be a problem that a lot players have. Waste of money.
Choppy scrolling
An issue across all of these remasters. The choppy scrolling hurts my eyes and renders these version unplayable for me. It’s unfortunate, as these have the potential to be the best versions of these games
Controller support
Controller support
没有包含重生之魂
该版本没有包含重生之魂
Missing controller support
Missing controller support
Bare minimum
This app did the absolute bare minimum in terms of upgrades. Visually the same as past ports yet they managed to remove the postgame. This is a port that's lesser than previous ports and if I could request a refund I would.
Game-Breaking Bug
No controller support is incredibly disappointing.
Any enemy that has an attack with a status effect will cause that effect 100% of the time. Makes sections of the game almost unplayable. Game has been out long enough this should have been patched by now.
Any enemy that has an attack with a status effect will cause that effect 100% of the time. Makes sections of the game almost unplayable. Game has been out long enough this should have been patched by now.
No Sound
What’s the point of amazing music if even the opening screen has not sound? Running on iPhone 11 ProMax Ver. 15.
Amazing Game, but no Controller Support!!!
Five stars once they add it. It’s truly an amazing game, but no controller support brings it down.
Nightmare to play…
I’m a die-hard FF fan. I’ve played every core game when it was released and have spent countless dollars on ports and sequels. I do like that this port has new graphics and music, but that’s really all it’s got going for it. Also, no controller support is pretty odd for a game like this.
So why does my subject say “Nightmare to play”? Because you get attacked every other step without a breath - I had no problems getting 100% bestiary going straight from start to finish with a couple detours here and there. I don’t think this was intended. Also, enemy status effects apply to you 100% of the time, and equipment that previously prevented status effects only work some of the time. The danged Coeurls at the end of the game 100% KO your characters without any reduction from things like Protect Rings. If you get ambushed (which also happens far more than it should) by a group of 6 Coeurls, you’re looking at an automatic Game Over. And this happens a lot. Good thing they added Quick Save because you have to do it after every other fight just to make sure you don’t get wiped out by RNG (same goes for monsters that paralyze - ambush is a Game Over almost every time). With the increased battle encounter chances and messed up chances of effects, it almost seems like there’s some global chance modifier that is applied to everything that is set too high.
Anyway. I’d wait for patches unless you like playing frustrated.
So why does my subject say “Nightmare to play”? Because you get attacked every other step without a breath - I had no problems getting 100% bestiary going straight from start to finish with a couple detours here and there. I don’t think this was intended. Also, enemy status effects apply to you 100% of the time, and equipment that previously prevented status effects only work some of the time. The danged Coeurls at the end of the game 100% KO your characters without any reduction from things like Protect Rings. If you get ambushed (which also happens far more than it should) by a group of 6 Coeurls, you’re looking at an automatic Game Over. And this happens a lot. Good thing they added Quick Save because you have to do it after every other fight just to make sure you don’t get wiped out by RNG (same goes for monsters that paralyze - ambush is a Game Over almost every time). With the increased battle encounter chances and messed up chances of effects, it almost seems like there’s some global chance modifier that is applied to everything that is set too high.
Anyway. I’d wait for patches unless you like playing frustrated.
Finished it, hated it.
The encounter rate is not forgivable as the battles are boring. Some enemies require special element attacks to even damage and some can wipe the party in a single turn if they ambush you. I know this is based on a Famicom game but they could have added more. Some of the enemies looked better on the GBA version. The music is spectacular and is worth a listen. The leveling system is horrible but not as wretched as its 8 bit counter part. Weapons level insanely fast while magic takes forever. At end game I had about 7K health and forced myself to slag through the final dungeon. Thanks for giving me the air ship literally right before the last battle. I hate this game.
Needs controller support
Needs controller support. I was really looking forward to playing this game, I downloaded the game thinking it had controller support. The previous final fantasy games on the app store all have had controller support. Once I ran the app and tried the game, the game was miserable to play on my IPad with using the directional pad. I guess Ill wait until they implement a controller support to play.
No controller support
None of the pixel remasters support MFI controllers. Steam version does, why not mobile?
Avoid.
Ultimate SE money grab. Bought on iPhone and they’re requiring a second payment to use on iPad on same Apple account. Stay away.
Impressive remake - however
I want to start by saying Final Fantasy II is by far my favorite out of the whole series because I grew up playing it wayyy too much.
With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations for magic abilities (especially ultima which really needed it from the original lol) however there are a few things I don’t remember being in the original.
Those being status effects guaranteed to hit you unless you are very high level, the ATROCIOUS “Rng” battles (literally a fight every few steps), and the most important of them all - and the reason why I gave 2 stars - THERES NO SOUL OF REBIRTH MODE. If I’m paying $10 for a 20 year old game remastered you should at least throw in the modes that were in the original. It’s such a shame and feels scammy not to include it.
Ps. I think post lv10 thunder animation on the original version is better than the remastered.
With that being said there’s many things they have done right, such as fantastic music, new animations for magic abilities (especially ultima which really needed it from the original lol) however there are a few things I don’t remember being in the original.
Those being status effects guaranteed to hit you unless you are very high level, the ATROCIOUS “Rng” battles (literally a fight every few steps), and the most important of them all - and the reason why I gave 2 stars - THERES NO SOUL OF REBIRTH MODE. If I’m paying $10 for a 20 year old game remastered you should at least throw in the modes that were in the original. It’s such a shame and feels scammy not to include it.
Ps. I think post lv10 thunder animation on the original version is better than the remastered.
Fix the garbage font.
How can something be so universally hated and completely untouched.
You have this massive text box for two lines of text that take up maybe a third of the box. Thats just lazy.
You have this massive text box for two lines of text that take up maybe a third of the box. Thats just lazy.
The status effect problem is ridiculous.
So I’ve seen at least one other person being this up in reviews… the status effect issue. Namely, that if any enemy’s physical attack CAN inflict a status effect, it WILL. Period. This has lead me to numerous game-overs from ambushes where my whole team was turned to stone or paralyzed before I could even move. That’s not challenging gameplay, that’s ludicrously unbalanced. Right now I’m stuck at a treasure chest battle in the late game against a group of enemies that can inflict death with their physical…. I’ve lost 8 times in a row and have no clue how I’m going to get this chest. It seems impossible because of the status effect issue. I really wanna rate the game higher because otherwise it’s quite good, but this glaring flaw is beyond stupid and was a horrible design decision.
Not so great
Had this been the initial game in the franchise, it likely would have been the last. Thought I’d give this another try but it failed to pull me in. I don’t get that sense of excitement from leveling up with this one.
Sentiment summary
71%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
24%
Negative (1-2★)