#266 | Final Fantasy III

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

As we continue our cruise through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters here on KnockBack, we come to the enigma that is Final Fantasy III. Like Final Fantasy II, III never got a western release at the time it came to Famicom in 1990. But unlike II, which finally saw the light of day in the west late in the PSone era, we had to wait until 2006 to play Final Fantasy III in western markets, and we did so via a 3D remake on Nintendo DS with a sterile and boring aesthetic overshadowing an otherwise solid job-based title. Finally, though, we can experience it as intended, with chibi sprites and chiptunes, and we're glad we did. A prelude to beloved Final Fantasy IV -- not in story, but in substance -- Final Fantasy III is a worthy old-school JRPG, one we're pleased to present thoughts on today. What's even more exciting, though, is that we can now be unleashed on the truly amazing series entries to come... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.2	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:15.6	Greetings and salutations, welcome back to Knockback.
0:17.9	My name is Colin Moriardium, joined as always by my brother,
0:20.4	Dagen the Warrior of Light Moriardium Dagen. Thank you for joining me today.
0:23.6	How are you today, my friend?
0:24.5	The two onion knights.
0:26.0	All right, exactly.
0:26.8	I guess we'd be the scallion knights.
0:29.2	A dad would be the onion knight.
0:30.7	That is the onion knight, right?
0:31.7	He really is the onion knight.
0:32.9	It's too bad that it wasn't a little earlier when he was called the onion man.
0:36.7	And then they would have been able to be like, well, call you the onion knight.
0:39.6	Yeah, that's up and that, okay.
0:41.2	I mean, he could take that job here.
0:43.6	To start his onion man, then the job later on, he could evolve to onion knight.
0:47.7	Right, exactly.
0:48.4	And then so on and so forth, depending on what he gets, depending on what what happens in his life.
0:53.2	Dagen, it's good to see you, my friend.
0:55.2	We're here to talk about Final Fantasy III.
0:56.9	But before we do that, let's catch up a little bit.
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