FINAL FANTASY IV (3D REMAKE) for Android

I enjoy the lower difficulty than the DS as well as mapmaking (items if traveled 100%) and cinematography within the story, which voice acting and improved graphics make moments, like the moon showing through the window in Cecil’s bedroom or the opening that was added (though brainwashing is overused). The battle system also allows you to choose what attack to repeat and you have augments to experiment with multiple commands, including hotkey magic and fun window designs. All of which are not in the pixel remaster, as well as the depth of Dark Knight Cecil’s mask that he fully wears in battle, and partially has in cutscenes or shows his eyes if he wants. He also has a soliloquy while opening the menu. The main issues I had are that you backtrack a lot with a useless teleport (towers, sealed cave and tunnels are not dungeons) quicksave is kinda dated, forcing you to save and the default combat speed is slow at 4, so you’d have to set it to 1 after the first battle. Edward’s harp sometimes clips through his cape like when Tellah attacks him, but I’ll take that with the best versions of his bard songs to quickly regen and later haste the party (he’s not as good in the after years/pixel remaster). Also, Cid working on airships has the worst animation I’ve seen in a game as sometimes he’s not even holding the hammer properly. Fortunately, Golbez’s motivational backstory, normal difficulty being challenging but fair, and developer’s office extras not in the pixel remaster, make this the definitive version despite the fact they messed up and I lost my defender Kain had equipped despite him returning to the party in the endgame. It was better than his Gungnir, so just robbing me makes no sense.

I’m sure the game is fine and has all it’s old school charm however, the audio refuses to work. Not matter how much I uninstall/reinstall

The sound cut off halfway through the game. Immediately when it gets to the title screen it just stops playing music. There’s effect sounds but no music….what’s going on?! Super sad :(

It’s better than I remembered from snes days. Runs excellent on Android 12 pro. Definitely like the voice acting.

Now that the Pixel Remaster is here, this is unlikely, but it would be really great to have these available on Google TV with controller support. I really like both versions (this one and PR), but playing on my tiny little Android is not nearly as nice as a TV.