Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8579 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2003-03-14
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PlayStation

Manufacturer's Description
Return to the true origins of one of the most popular game series ever created. Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II were the foundation of console RPGs as we know them today and are finally available together in Europe for the very first time on PlayStation.

In Final Fantasy, four warriors of light, each possessing a special crystal, are summoned to bring harmony back to a world threatened by an evil entity intent on conquering it. Together, the warriors battle hideous creatures and travel across the world in order to restore order and peace.

In Final Fantasy II, the emperor of Palamecia launches a campaign for world domination. In response, a rebel force rises in the kingdom of Fynn; in the ensuing clash, the rebels are forced to retreat to the remote town of Altair. Among them, four childhood friends find themselves orphaned, homeless and running for their lives. They are the only hope for the rebels and their struggle against the evil Palamecian empire.

Both games contain all-new features, including state-of-the-art CG sequences, a memo file save system, and enhanced graphics, and come packaged in a two-disc set complete with Yoshitaka Amano art cards that are exclusive to PAL territories.

Customer Reviews

You gotta know where you come from to know where you're goin
When Sqaure decided to "give a little back" to the somewhat neglected PAL users who always seem to get the raw deal by releasing their remakes of Final Fantasy 1 and 2 in Europe before America, I, along with much of the European Final Fantasy Fraternity, was chuffed. Although it may seem like a cheap marketing ploy to some, Square really have made the effort this time giving us graphically re-mastered versions of the two classics, along with intro FMVs to boot. Yes the games are short, yes the early days of Final Fantasy were somewhat less-producive than recent achievments (sorry retro fanboys), and yes these games are completely out dated, but any FF fan should own this duo; they tell us more about the games that we have come to love, and make us appreciate the franchise even more.
Of course, you'll whiz through FF1, and take a fraction longer to complete the second installment, but it is indeed satifying to revel in the fact that you have played and completed two videogames that were to change the face of RPG gaming forever.

Well worth your hard earnt.

A nice little addition
I welcomed these remkaes of FF1 and 2 with open arms, desperate to see where it all began and have some fun along the way. I was not dissapointed.

Final Fantasy is a small joy, as you choose a party of four heroes and set off to save the world from destruction. You may choose a differnt class for each of your charceters, and you are given a choice between six classes for each:Fighter(power),Theif(speed),monk(defense and power),Black mage(damage spells), White Mage(healing spells) and Red mage (weaker damage and magic spells). Once you have chosen yout team you cannot change charcter class, so make sure you choose carefully.

Battles are enjoyable, but there is a lack of real turn order, with slower charcters sometimes acting before faster ones. Accuracy at the early stages is annoyingly low, with 1/2 of your hits missing the target until slightly later stages in the game, but fortunately enemies seem to have the same problem. Usualyy though, enemies are too easy,and damage is unbalanced as most enemies will deal very little damage to fighter classes (maybe about 2 or 3 early on) but will deal hefty damage to other classes (as i 80 or 90 at timess) this gets very boring, and causes problems in HP healing.

You have eight levels of magic, for each level you have a different ammount of MP, each spell takes 1 Mp from its relative level, this means that veen in later stages in the game there is shortage in healing magic, making you resort to items to heal yourselves, which becomes quite ridiculous.

Dungeon exploration is a little boring and long- winded as in the early stages of the game you need to walk all the down then all the way back up when wondering through a dungeon.

Although sometimes enjoyable, FF1 is generally too slow and tedious to hold your attention for more than 1 or 2 hours at a time, but is fairly enjoyable none the less.

FF2 is the better of the two games in the package, and is worth the full price of the product on its own.

You play as a group of youths who have escaped the town of Fynn as the evil empire conquers it. You proceed to join the rebel forces who fight against the empire, in order to help defeat the empire and find your lost friend Felix. The story is enjoyable and gives your charcters good motives, although there are times when you may be unsure of what to do, this very rarely happens.

Your team will often consist of 3 charcetrs, Firion, Maria and Gus. Sometimes you will have the help of a guets character, but they generally do not stay in your team for very long in the story.

Charcters in ff2 do not have levels, instead your stats go up as certain events occur in battle. If you are dealt alot of damage in battle, your HP raises your str goes up as you attack with weapons and so on. Magic and weaponry are purchased in towens for use in battle. As you use magic in battle, it gains expierence and will eventually level up, becoming more powerful. Weapons become more powerful in a similair way, as you use wepaons your charcter's level with that weapon increases, allowing them to get more hits with that weapon when they attack.
The system works effieciently, but certain loop-holes (which I do not wish to mention) make it too easy to level up spells, weapons, and most of your stats in the game. These problems were present in the original version, and it is a shame to see that they are still here, as they really do spoil the growth sytem of the game.

This aside FF2 is a wonderful game, and is better than most of the thrashy games availble today.

If you want to know where it started, this is an essential purchase, if you want a challenge. A worhty purchase, but it shouldn't be top of every ones list.

FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN
This game has a slightly dissapointing plot compared to the other final fantasys but the character types, weapons and armour styles and magic types make up for it. The travelling on this game is great and the graphics are slightly old now but nevertheless is stil a great game. This was the first final fantasy game i bought and just makes you want to get more. I recomend this to everybody, especially if you like old style games or if this is your first final fantasy game. The price on here is unbelievable for the two games so just go and buy it!