Bargain for all Final Fantasy fans

Play Asia is offering five days of discounted price for Asia version of Square Enix’s RPG remake, which supports both English and Japanese languages. Price tag for Final Fantasy II Anniversary Edition is set to $14.90, and is not something you would just throw away, but it seems as a fine deal for all fans and collectors of Final Fantasy series. If you’re up for grabbing one copy, head over to Play-Asia.com.

Final Fantasy II

This game, with the tradition of 20 years (yeah, 20 years!!), will never die, because it’s offering fun and imaginative characters who develop nicely over the course of the game. The beautiful visual style also helps push the game out of the realm of RPG dinosaurs, and it’s nice to see your character’s emote during conversations.

While the game in many ways looks similar to the FFI Anniversary (beautiful character and enemy models, tons of little touches throughout towns and dungeons), the game plays quite differently. It takes much longer to grind through stat levels and attributes in FFII, for example, thanks to the stat system which requires you to make some tough choices on how you level up your characters. This can get a bit tricky at times and a little frustrating. For instance, if you want a character who excels at casting magic, you’ll have to consistently cast spells. But you’ll also want them to have a decent attack level to balance things out; unfortunately, you can’t achieve that unless the character actually attacks something. The system takes a little time to adjust to and will definitely try your patience.

IGN
In FINAL FANTASY II, a malevolent emperor has called upon monsters from a demonic realm to take over the world, ending what seemed to be an eternal period of peace. Thousands of lives succumb to their attacks, leaving many children orphaned. From the destruction rise four young survivors who will take it upon themselves to stop the merciless ruler and avenge the death of their parents.

Remastered exclusively for the PSP system, this all-new anniversary edition features all-new character art, updated graphics, new dungeons, full 16:9 widescreen presentation and an updated camera view that gives players a new vantage point on such a timeless classic RPG.