Just bought this and these are my first impressions. I love everything Square Enix so saying this is captivating and immersive is a very high compliment coming from me. La!La!La!L!La! - love that healing spell sung and it often comes at just the right time. I'm playing on the new ipad and the cut scenes are beautiful but blurred. Let me say at the outset that this is addictive and VERY ENJOYABLE. Things that could be added would be retina graphics but not really necessary.the controls are good and I am having a lot if fun. If you love rpg's and Square Enx games you will LOVE this. I have been playing it all morning. Once I began I just couldn't stop and only took a break to write this review but I'm loving it very much. I highly recommend getting this. No ugly IAP and an excellent game worth much more than $7. I would gladly pay similar to Square Enix prices for this like $20 upwards. I have no problem paying for quality and a FULL GAME which this is. I don't like games like HORN where you have to buy IAP to upgrade weapons or NFL PRO 2013 where all the teams cost $52 but a game like this I will gladly open my wallet and you should too.
Okay, I ran into a major bug when fighting xenobia in the unstable space. This bug causes the game to freeze. This has happened 6 times do far and I have given up. This is on the new build. Yay the game is back on the hot new games list
They said that's a bug and reinstalling could fix it. That's if you bought it and are jb. If you pirated it then gtfo...
As has been said before, if your game file is altered or corrupted it can cause some bosses to have unusually high stats, making them nigh impossible to beat. The game does not specifically check whether the device is jail broken AFAIK. That is why it was suggested that re-installing the game from the App Store is likely to solve the problem.
Those anti-piracy tricks are a traditional thing in the JRPG world, though. I bought a Dragon Quest 5 cart at a fleamarket once that turned out to be a bootleg. The game opens with a scene on a boat and because the program detected it was bootleg, it just never let the boat come into the harbor. The pirates had put a special save file on the cart to get around that but since I didn't know it was a pirate I deleted it.
I'm also failing to see how discouraging people from pirating your work makes a dev "greedy". This isn't some weekend project undertaken just for fun. The up front out of pocket costs of this project ran well into six figures and it took nearly three years to release.
I really want to get this but am hesitant given the control issues and the low res look on the iPad 3. Is anything being done to address these issues?
updates? Hi Nall, Beautiful port but it keeps freezing on the ship (Orca?). I even lose audio. Are there updates for iPad we can access? Gamemom
Yes, although these are subjective matters, so on the later, if you're looking for crystal-clear sharp graphics optimized for the retina iPad, that's not going to happen -- the cost to remaster this title for that would likely be in the millions. (Yes, really.) If I had infinite money, I would totally do it, though. Some people here on the board have been trying out preliminary versions of various updates. The first one should be available on the App Store itself very soon.
Already finished this game twice in my PlayStation days so won't buy it this time around. But share with you this is one of the best JRPG I've ever played!
Is there any filtering or pixel smoothing going on? Could you do something like DotEmu did for Metal Slug 3? That looks absolutely brilliant when filtering/smoothing is disabled.
by force quit, people mean exit the app with the home button, then double click home to bring up the multitasking bar and close the app from there. the update is in beta testing right now.
Sorry if this has already been addressed but I don't have time at the moment to catch myself up on the thread. First of all great job tweaking this for the Ipad. I played the original many times (one of my fav games) and this does it justice. It still has some flaws to workout but the ground work is there. My only gripe has to do with the controls. Any chance in making the following changes? 1) When you hold it vertically and get the D-Pad... can you add diagonal buttons? 2) When holding it horizontally... If you point at a spot your party goes straight there... okay... makes sense... however sometimes I'm trying to activate the joystick and I end up clicking the screen once first by accident... then my party starts heading that way. My problem is it doesn't cancel if I then try and move the opposite way. It seems like I have to wait for my party to get to the point I clicked (or hit an obstacle). The point and click method should really be overridden any time you start using the joystick again. 3) For dialogue please make it an actual button you click to continue. Sometimes it's tough to initiate dialogue and then because you keep hitting the button to try and start it you end up starting and skipping the first page of dialogue. Making it a button to move on with dialogue (even a fairly large one) instead of touching anywhere on the screen would correct this. 4) This isn't about controls... but I think you could really beef up the explanation of the menus (not in game... the one on the main menu you have already). It's always been one of the toughest entry points for new players and I'd hate for anything to hold someone back from this gem of a game. It should be pretty quick to explain each individual menu page and what it does. 5) Any chance you might do Lunar 2 eternal blue next? Thanks! EDIT: okay caught myself up and seems many people have similar worries as me. That said it also seems like you are addressing them which is great news. I eagerly await the update! Also regarding #4 above... someone pointed out how it was very confusing not having slots labelled on the menus. would that be something easy to add? Like if no weapon is equipped have it be a greyed out box with a weapon icon (also greyed out). This seems like a small UI tweek that would help a lot too...
Many of the bugs have been fixed. I would agree about the menu system. I consider myself an rpg vet, so I have almost every type of menu so I'm set. I'm just happy to see this gane move up the hot new games list again.
@pico - Please try on the newer one. Thanks! @eflin - You should actually be able to move diagonally, even if it's not immediately evident from the four buttons. The dialog situation should be helped in the coming update.
