FF 1 2 3 are games well suited for mobile plat form. They all require lots of leveling, are slightly addictive, and have no epic story what so ever.

If this was on the DS "OMG! so cool, FF is doing great in the DS"

Lot of Nintendo fanboys here.

Believe me I love Nintendo to death and I own a DS and hope to get the Wii. But man, people are hypocrates and plain wrong sometimes.

bleh!

The problem with the PSP is that most of the ports don't carry over well. All s***-talking about the device itself aside, some awesome games don't really translate that well to it (e.g. Power Stone).

I still think this looks really awesome. It'll probably be a better port than Dawn of Souls if PSP load times don't bog it down. It'll, at the very least, be better than the Origins.

If I could find a PSP for under $100.00, I think I'd pick it up just for this title.

I have to say that those are some pretty graphics, it is only a shame that they are being wasted on a game I don't want to play.

Give THIS treatment or the FF3 DS treatment to any of the any of the games from FF4 and beyond, and we will talk. Also someone already mentioned Chrono Trigger, so I will put out this, Secret of Mana.

Also of interest, related to the actual games:

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ff20th/

Click the "New Information" link. Square is trying its best to convince us that there's actually something new here...

Or both? Now that FFs 1-6 have been remade in one way or another, let's see how Squeenix handles THIS roadblock.

Ehh, save judgement on the art until you see it in motion. I can see both sides of the coin on this one...it does look a little odd, but not bad by any shot of the imagination.

I would kill for a PSP-enhanced remake of Front Mission 3.

As for the moment, my 3.03 OE-B PSP will have to work with the backup of my old, original FM3.

I hope the "remake-itis" include more games from Squeenix (Like Seiken Densetsu 3)

"If only the PSP was worth buying for more than 5 games."

It was worth buying for more than 5 games a year ago.

Very nice looking, but by god have Square Enix lost their damn head? How many freakin times do they wanna sell us these games? Don't take the piss out of me, as much as I love you and your games, I'm not dumb.

Frankly I'm insulted by this, because Square Enix know full well, that fans have been requesting the likes of Chrono Trigger, Bahamut Lagoon, Live A Live, Mana 3 etc for bloddy ages and this is what we get. Why is it so hard to build on these and other titles like Parasite Eve, Threads of Fate instead? Even some DQ remakes are even more worthy. Stop trying to play me, SE.

Talk about money for nothing and the chocobos for free. Considering the size of the UMD, you should be at least getting three of these games on one disc, especially so if the humble GBA could handle two.

Screens look sweet, but I'll wait for this one to hit the bargain bin. You are trying our patience Square, and your lack of vision and originality these days has me very worried for you.

Anniversary? More like a bloody anniversary mugging. Count me out.

It looks pretty nice. Both the backgrounds and the sprites have a nice "pop" to them. It sucks that they're being released as separate games (rather than as a compilation). Still probably won't buy it (unless I see it for cheap) as Dawn of Souls was a pretty good port. :)

And @porridgeboy: The Portrait of Ruin preorder bonus was awesome. I wouldn't call it little. I mean, you look at most bonuses or special editions and they're usually lacking (compared to Japanese bonuses anyway...). The PoR bonus had a compilation CD of music, a telescoping stylus, a game case, an art book, and a timeline of all the games. I thought it was pretty good, anyway... :)

Well, I'm going to have to disagree with most, I really like the look of this. At least the battle screens, phwoo, thats cool.

The thing is, it's literally been years since a Dragon Quest pre-5 was remade. At this point, you'd think they'd approve a compilation package of DQ1-3 or 1-4 for the PSP or something.

I just noticed that these two games address one of my biggest pet peeves with video games: quality fonts. Rather, the lack thereof. These two games are using a font that's clear, legible, anti-aliased... dare I say it, a high definition font.

Took you long enough, video game industry.

Oh lord...I could make those sprites! They should have hand-drawn them on paper, then scanned them in. Yuck!

I agree with most everybody here.

What SE should do is make a completely new RPG with this graphic engine. THEN I would really look forward to it.

Wow. The answer to that is no. I can see the Mode 7 style. It isn't the map I have the problem with. The sprites (SPRITESSSSS) look like crap. They have a completely different outline from everything around them and it's extremely jarring. It looks horrible.

The super wide head with eyes all the way to the sides reminds me of the awful art style from the original anime Kanon (not the new one, which has marked improvements in that area). Also, if it were so awesomely animated, don't you suppose that could have more than one pose for characters to be standing in? People are giving this far too much credit.

But really, it doesn't matter anyway because the ports are pretty much worthless.

What're you guys talking about? Sprites look great what? The stuff from FFII looks awful, especially in that first picture. The sprites don't match the map at all.

This is actually the seventh release of FF1, not the sixth. The list posted earlier left out the cell phone version, which came out between the PSX and GBA ones.

I already have Dawn of Souls on the GBA, so it's not like this is making me want a PSP like Tactics is.

If only they had done something ala Mega Man Anniversary Collection... seeing as how these two games have been re-done already, very recently even, probably makes this a questionable buy.

I had to give you positive karma for your comment Maydan. It made me chuckle. I still wish SE would have done what Hypersonicexe suggested and given us a new FF game that played like the old school titles.

someone forgot to turn off the I tag it seems.

"what have they done to the sprites?"

Made them look hand-drawn instead of pixelated? I think it looks pretty good. Comparing them to Flash vector imagery is wrong: they look like RPG Maker's sprite style, not amateur-created vectors.

Wonderful. I've never gotten to play the first games in the series I love most, so this'll be a real treat.

I'm looking at this and it reminds me of flash games sprites. Aside from that one Amano headpic, there's hardly anything that looks remotely like classic Final Fantasy or even an attempt at remaking it along some same vein. Not much thought was put into these unless they are trying to cater to the Flash Gaming crowd.

But after 20 years you'd think they'd do something better than this but with almost every gaming company having lacklustre or half-assed "anniversary" celebrations like Capcom with SF2, SNK with a lame remake of KoF 94 and Konami with a small extra with a pre-ordered PoR; it doesn't surprise me that Square would follow suit. But at least Capcom had a decent celebration event with SF2.

It blows my mind that Square puts FFIII on the DS in 3D graphics (when the system is clearly great ad 2D graphics and is lacking in the 3D area) yet they put FFI&II on the PSP in 2D graphics (when the appeal of the system is that it's a handheld that can actually do really nice 3D graphics).

But man, please do this to FFIV and FFVI and never turn them 3D. This is the way the FF series is supposed to look, IMO.

Okay this is beyond ridiculous. Come on Square Enix. How about some DQ remakes? Maybe a Chrono Trigger remake possibly, but a sixth port of FF1 and 2. WHY? I mean even Old Bessie the cow doesn't get milked THIS much.

"the mediocre-yet-eternally-popular FF6."

WHAT!?!?!? FF6 was NOT mediocre!!!! Now please read my massive unnecessary post as to why your opinion is wrong and mine is right!

...just kidding.

Nah, it's definitely the sprites. The backgrounds look flat, especially the overworld shots. But the sprites look distinct, detailed, well-done, and borderline stylistic.

That FF2 battle shot makes me wonder what could've been with FF3, FF4, and even the mediocre-yet-eternally-popular FF6.

Even though it looks good, I'm NOT buying these games again...

3 iterations is enough for me.
Why can't they do this with Chrono Trigger!?

I wish the DS was capable of these kinds of graphics.

Perhaps it is, and no one is willing to put in the time to make such nice looking sprites, but anyway.

And people say Nintendo milks franchises...

This is, what, the EIGHTH release of Final Fantasy I!?! Especially when it seems that Squeenie doesn't want to listen to their fanbase and do a remake of the only game they want - Final Fantasy VII. They can easily do a remake of that game, slap it with a "10th Anniversary" tag, and make enough money to budget all of their handheld projects for the next three years.

I think Garland's knocked us all down QUITE enough, thank you.

I think I will probably get this. I have enjoyed the nes version and the origins version, and by the "looks" of this one, I will probably enjoy it too. I mean lets be awesome this is one of the most beautiful looking 2D rpgs I have ever seen.

Pretty.

And that's about it. If you've played the games before that is. If you haven't, FF1 is very cool. FF2 was iffy though. I wont be getting them.

Gorgeous, to be sure, but enough to justify yet another purchase? You're path is a wary one, Square-Enix. This one is not yet convinced...

So unnecessary. This is the fourth REMAKE of both games. How many times does SE think we're going to buy these? A rather weak anniversary tribute.