Final Fantasy V was recently ported to Android after an iOS release earlier this year. It looks terrible. Yet these smart phone versions of the popular Square Enix game are the most widespread way to attain the game now. Inferior cash grabs like this should not be the route game companies take to preserve classic games.
Final Fantasy V is a near flawless RPG and one of Square’s finest 16-bit achievements.
Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster gives one of the franchises’ underdogs a substantial glow-up, in many ways realizing its potential in ways the original hardware or previous ports never could.
SQUARE ENIX Ltd. today announced that the highly acclaimed FINAL FANTASY pixel remaster series’ next edition, FINAL FANTASY V, would be released as a genuine 2D pixel remaster in Europe on November 10 for Steam and mobile platforms, featuring enhanced pixel visuals and audio.
Good thing I have the GBA version.
This was a pretty good article I myself have noticed this troubling issue. It saddens me how some hd collections came out. I would love for them to be remakes like Persona 4 Golden to me personally it is the best game remake I have seen considering how appending more detail and characters to such a golden game/exp without over doing it this quality is what I expect for remakes/remasters, instead we get outsourced devs, upping resolution, adding more bugs and then call it a day. Heres to hoping ps4/XB1/wii u gen comes with more effort to the remasters and remakes.
It's wild to me that so many games, especially really good games like the Panzer Dragoon titles, have been relegated to emulation and abandoned by their parent companies. I shudder at the horror that will be the eventual PS3 and Xbox 360 digital store shutdown, how much will be lost to obscurity through services like these or even Steam being shutdown in the future.
Great article BTW, really well thought out and it hits alot of good points for this topic.
oh man, they should release this on the Vita or 3DS bundled with 5 and 6 together with those updated visuals.
I don't know about you dude but I prefer this new version.