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Final Fantasy 3 |
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Original Format: Nintendo Entertainment System
Released: 1990
Update: none announced to date |
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Many years ago� on his deathbed, the great archmage Noah divided his legacy amongst his tree students. To Dorga he gave the real of magic, to Unne the realm of dreams and to Zande the realm of humans. However, Zande despises his role and yearns to rule all three worlds. To this end, he summons the Dark Cloud from the Dark World to do his bidding. Another student, Owen, decides to create a Floating Continent. He builds a tower to control it, and appoints his son Desh to watch over the tower. However, the tower is taken over by monsters, and Desh is thrown out, losing his memory in the catastrophe. |
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Now four young boys are lost in the Altar Cave, near the city of Ur. They come across a large Water Crystal, which tells them of Zande�s plans, and decides that they are the four legendary warriors destined to defeat Zande and restore order. It bestows legendary job classes upon the four. They bid farewell to their adoptive farther and mother, Topapa and Nina, and start on their journey� |
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The Final Fantasy template was slowly forming by the time the third game hit the shelves of Japan, and it was this game that cemented the transformation from the generic adventures that had gone before, into something uniquely Final Fantasy. This game varied slightly from the formula by giving you a cast of four identical brothers o control, rather than the usual floating band of characters collected along the way, but also introduced many elements that have remained in the games to this day.
Final Fantasy 3 was the first to expand on the �job� system, which would later evolve into the character-developing sections of later games. Each character could learn different �jobs�, gaining new skills and abilities along the way. This expanded system allowed the players to tailor the skills of the party to the way they wanted to play, and would later give us the �materia� gems of Final Fantasy 7 amongst other things.
Final Fantasy 3 was also the start of may traditions including the power to summon help from old pals like Ragnarok, Shiva, Ramuh, Ifrit, Titan and Odin. The game also introduced other innovations like a choice of weapons and armour, the ability to purchase a high quantity of an item at once, many secret passages through false walls, and the battle engine was tweaked to dead target. If the first two games had been great RPGs, Final Fantasy 3 was the game where Squaresoft really started to turn a great game into a complete experience |
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