Disclaimer. This review is done through comparison of what other remasters have to offer and not the game on its own. Originally released in 1987 its a very bare bones game and it would be silly for my to fault it for being a rudimentary rpg, chances are if your buying this you have played FF1 before.

1. What does this remaster do differently? Well not much truthfully. The sprites pay great homage to the original NES release.

2. The starting towns shops have been rebalanced as such that you no longer need to grind for half an hour to gear up your party initially allowing you to just talk to the king and head out to slap Garland around.

3. Ethers & Phoenix downs were added to the game which in my opinion just have no place here. These two items can severely trivialize and already easy experience and feels they were just added for the sake of familiarity.

4. Peninsula of power is gone. A fairly famous programming error resulting in very powerful enemies spawning in 2 particular squares that square decided to make a staple part of all remasters for the past 34 years is finally removed from the game. I really cannot think of why this would be unless the remasters goal was to stay true to the games original intentions but Ethers/Phoenix downs kinda throw that idea out of the window.

5. No additional content. Any of the bonus content such as dungeons, bosses etc that were added from the GBA release and on and just not here. Meaning that aside from taking down the Warmech. There really is no endgame or note worthy side content to do aside from slap Chaos face off once you've collected the crystals.

So, is FF1PR worth getting? I think so still yes. It offers the convenience of avoiding emulators and pairs quite nicely with my steamlink for couch play. Many users were reporting technical errors with the game but truthfully I just don't really care that the scroll speed FPS of the game differs laterally to horizontally. Some people reported the game jumping into windowed mode on its own that I did experience however thanks to steams remote play I never noticed this occurred. I was also playing this with a switch pro controller so as for if the game detects proper button prompts for Playstation hardware or not is beyond me. That being said If given the choice between just one of these remakes I would recommend either the PS1 or PSP versions of FF1.

Disclaimer. This review is done through comparison of what other remasters have to offer and not the game on its own. Originally released in 1987 its a very bare bones game and it would be silly for my to fault it for being a rudimentary rpg, chances are if your buying this you have played FF1 before. 1. What does this remaster do differently? Well not much truthfully. The sprites pay great homage to the original NES release. 2. The starting towns shops have been rebalanced as such that you no longer need to grind for half an hour to gear up your party initially allowing you to just talk to the king and head out to slap Garland around. 3. Ethers & Phoenix downs were added to the game which in my opinion just have no place here. These two items can severely trivialize and already easy experience and feels they were just added for the sake of familiarity. 4. Peninsula of power is gone. A fairly famous programming error resulting in very powerful enemies spawning in 2 particular squares that square decided to make a staple part of all remasters for the past 34 years is finally removed from the game. I really cannot think of why this would be unless the remasters goal was to stay true to the games original intentions but Ethers/Phoenix downs kinda throw that idea out of the window. 5. No additional content. Any of the bonus content such as dungeons, bosses etc that were added from the GBA release and on and just not here. Meaning that aside from taking down the Warmech. There really is no endgame or note worthy side content to do aside from slap Chaos face off once you've collected the crystals. So, is FF1PR worth getting? I think so still yes. It offers the convenience of avoiding emulators and pairs quite nicely with my steamlink for couch play. Many users were reporting technical errors with the game but truthfully I just don't really care that the scroll speed FPS of the game differs laterally to horizontally. Some people reported the game jumping into windowed mode on its own that I did experience however thanks to steams remote play I never noticed this occurred. I was also playing this with a switch pro controller so as for if the game detects proper button prompts for Playstation hardware or not is beyond me. That being said If given the choice between just one of these remakes I would recommend either the PS1 or PSP versions of FF1.