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Final Fantasy III
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1990 role-playing video game, originally released on Famicom
OverviewAI-generated
Final Fantasy III is a role-playing and adventure game developed by Square and published by Square and Square Enix. It is part of the Final Fantasy franchise and supports single-player game modes. The title was originally released for the Family Computer (NES) on April 27, 1990. Later versions were released for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
The game has received ratings from various sources. RAWG lists a rating of 3.59, while IGDB records a rating of 70 based on 42 user ratings. These metrics reflect the reception of the role-playing experience across its different platform releases.
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Game details · IGDB
Final Fantasy III is the third FF game for the Famicom. The turn-based battle engine has been improved: if the enemy is defeated, the next character will automatically switch to another enemy, and not hit the air, like in the previous two games. The game itself is, like the previous games, a top-down RPG where your characters travel in the overworld, sometimes entering cities and dungeons to buy equipment, rest and fight random encounters and bosses with turn-based combat. Final Fantasy III also introduces various series staples, such as the Job system and the Moogle species.
- Released
- 1990
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
- Platforms
- Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Final Fantasy
- Developer
- Square
- Publisher
- Square, Square Enix
Key facts
- Developer
- Square
- Publisher
- Square
- Director
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Producer
- Masafumi Miyamoto
- Designers
- Hiromichi Tanaka Kazuhiko Aoki
- Programmer
- Nasir Gebelli
- Artists
- Koichi Ishii , Kazuko Shibuya , Yoshitaka Amano
- Writer
- Kenji Terada
- Composer
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Series
- Final Fantasy
- Platform
- Family Computer iOS Android Windows Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Xbox Series X/S
- Release
- April 27, 1990 Original JP : April 27, 1990 Pixel Remaster Android, iOS, Windows WW : July 28, 2021 Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 WW : April 19, 2023 Xbox Series X/S WW : September 26, 2024
- Genre
- Role-playing
- Mode
- Single-player
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Square
- Director
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Composer
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Producer
- Masashi Miyamoto
- Developer
- Square
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- digital distribution
- Official website
- www.finalfantasy3.eu.com
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- input device
- gamepad
- programmer
- Nasir Gebelli
- publication date
- 1990-04-27
- distributed by
- Steam
- media franchise
- Final Fantasy
- language of work or name
- Traditional Chinese
- Commons category
- Final Fantasy III
- title
- Fainaru Fantajī Surī
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Encyclopedic overview
Final Fantasy III is a 1990 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Family Computer. The third installment in the Final Fantasy series, it follows four orphans from the village of Ur who are chosen by the world's crystals to defeat a great evil and return balance to the world. The gameplay returns to the traditional combat system of the original game, and adds a job system allowing players to switch between character classes with unique abilities.
Development of Final Fantasy III was handled by multiple series veterans including director Hironobu Sakaguchi, designers Hiromichi Tanaka and Kazuhiko Aoki, writer Kenji Terada, composer Nobuo Uematsu, and programmer Nasir Gebelli in his final contribution to the series. Production was a struggle due to data management, and new elements were added to encourage player experimentation. The artwork was a collaborative effort between Koichi Ishii as character and job designer, Yoshitaka Amano as monster designer, and Kazuko Shibuya as main sprite artist. When it completed development, it was described as one of the largest games on the system.
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