Jul 27 AT 2:58 PM Nick Gray 32 Comments

Final Fantasy for Android now available on Google Play for $6.99

Four weeks after the Google Play launch of Final Fantasy III, Square Enix has now released “the Final Fantasy that started it all!” Final Fantasy for Android allows you to relive the amazing game which paved the way for at least a dozen more Final Fantasy titles over a 25 year history. The graphics may not be as good as Shadow Gun, The Dark Knight Rises, or Angry Birds, but the turn-based battles and compelling story line of Final Fantasy guarantee hours of nostalgic entertainment.

The 46.39MB download does require Android 2.1 and does cost more than most Android games. The $6.99 price tag may seem steep to most, but we’re sure Square Enix will still be able to sell quite a few copies of the game since the $15.99 priced Final Fantasy III has racked up nearly 100,000 sales in less than a month.

We know most Android users prefer cheap or free games, but is $6.99 a fair price for a classic RPG game like Final Fantasy?

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93 Alexander drzfr3shboialex 07/27/12 3:01 PM

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No, just because it literally is an iOS port. Should of supported more resolutions and etc. They messed up. I did buy ff3 and its amazing that deserves the 15$/16$ :)

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- Anita HuelvaGuest 07/27/12 7:16 PM
  
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  More exciting than the dreaded opening ceremony of olympics, what a terrible snorefest.
  
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  - Juan VGuest 07/28/12 4:53 PM
    
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    It was terrible.
    
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96 pekosROB 07/27/12 3:05 PM

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Still waiting on the official Chrono Trigger. I would pay $10 for that game.

Yeah, yeah, I know there are emulators and stuff. But I want a fully supported version from the folks who made it!

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- 93 WlfHart 07/27/12 9:00 PM
  
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  I’m hoping some day they just come out with the entire pre IX line-up. I’d buy the bundle!
  
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- Jeremy ShankmanGuest 07/28/12 12:49 AM
  
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  I can’t plus one this comment enough!!! I would buy Chrono Trigger in a heartbeat…even at 15.99 even though I have the PSX port and the SNES version. to have a fully functioning, non rom version of this that is support would be amazing!
  
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  - 96 pekosROB 07/30/12 11:17 AM
    
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    Oh why won’t they listennnnnnn to usssss????
    
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  - 93 WlfHart 07/31/12 2:25 PM
    
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    Indeed it would!
    
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100 Nick Gray 07/27/12 3:08 PM

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Call me crazy, but I was never a huge fan of the original FF. I’m still working to beat FFIII (have not had much time to play it). I’m sure I’ll be buying this game, but I have too many games on my phone that I still need to get through.

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- 42 Triplanetary 07/28/12 8:17 AM
  
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  Well, it’s not the best FF game, but it’s better than FF2. ^_^
  
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  - mikemickGuest 07/28/12 11:04 AM
    
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    FF2 is my favorite. Assuming we’re talking about the one that was branded FF2 here in the US, that was on the SNES.
    
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    - 42 Triplanetary 07/28/12 12:27 PM
      
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      Oh no, I meant FF2 in terms of the full series. Sorry.
      
      Yeah, FF2 (aka FF4 :P) is a great game!
      
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67 Zagrash 07/27/12 3:45 PM

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If they get around to releasing Final Fantasy Tactics, I’m confident I would buy that for the 3rd time…same with the GBA FF Tactics games, I sunk entirely too many hours into all of those.

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AlonsoGuest 07/27/12 3:48 PM

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Very very interesting.

If you buy the game within the US, you pay $6.99, if you are outside the US -BAM!- they charge you $10.81

What? Are non-US buyers not worth the goodness of Final Fantasy? Is there a special tax foreign buyers have to pay?

Square-Enix you suck…

I’m waiting for Final Fantasy 6 anyway.

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- 100 Nick Gray 07/27/12 4:39 PM
  
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  Not sure how tax is calculated on Google Play purchases, but I’m sure more EU countries include a 15-20% VAT in the listing price. $6.99 with 20% VAT comes out to $8.39.
  
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  - Sgb101Guest 07/28/12 9:10 PM
    
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    £4.44 atm in the UK, that works out about $7
    
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    - 97 SGB101 07/28/12 9:13 PM
      
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      ^ oops, forgot to sign in.
      
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- 92 AsakuraZero 07/29/12 10:30 PM
  
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  no in my country its 17.xx because fuck you thats why, whats wrong with SE? … wait its square enix what we are talking about, if they could milk a horse they would do it…FF died on the tenth one
  
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78 MoSDeeb 07/27/12 3:53 PM

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I’ve never played the original so now is as good of a time as ever.

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98 spazby 07/27/12 4:10 PM

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never played this one but i love them all so far, so count me in… i still have a a little left of that $25 credit from nexus 7…

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66 rantmo 07/27/12 6:27 PM

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Hell yes I bought it. I still haven’t picked up III yet but it’s on my list. Anything to get Square to release the rest of my childhood in such a way as to install it on a Nexus 7.

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6 wicked4u2c 07/27/12 6:32 PM

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wait, just a few days ago people were complaining how Dead Trigger had to give their game for free because of piracy. FYI Dead Trigger has 100,000 downloads and it’s free now. Final Fantasy managed to get 100,000 downloads at $15.99 does that make any sense? Oh yeah, build a good game and people will buy. when you sell a game for .99 cents and still have IAP and don’t specify that in the description most likely your going to get burned, just saying…

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98 Nathan D. 07/27/12 7:36 PM

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Always nice to have the classic back in our lives again =)

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96 uknowme 07/27/12 10:21 PM

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I picked it up but I’m pretty upset that it doesn’t fill the screen on my Evo LTE. Hope they fix that in an update.

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1 unicronic 07/28/12 12:34 AM

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It is mind boggling how Square can sell a game at $15. Really they should have bundled the first 3 FF’s together for that.

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heetskoreGuest 07/28/12 1:23 AM

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$7 to play the FF that started it all? A big fat hell yes from me.

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RodneyGuest 07/28/12 7:33 AM

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iOS version runs much smoother and overall better, as expected

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- 96 uknowme 07/28/12 11:52 AM
  
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  Really, so that must mean you have both an ios device and an android device to test this. Very interesting troll is very interesting…sigh.
  
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  - RodneyGuest 07/28/12 12:03 PM
    
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    No, but my brother does. Is this hard to figure out?
    
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meGuest 07/29/12 2:46 AM

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Format is bad. Everything looks so tiny on my S3. They did a lazy job at porting this over. No wonder the cheap price. I got a refund after playing a few mins of it.

I paid for FF3 & would kepted the game if they put as much effort into as they did with FF3.

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WPRGuest 08/08/12 6:30 PM

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where is the world map ?

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Andy PeinGuest 09/13/12 8:55 PM

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I am so sorry

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