The original was my least favorite in the series by a country mile. How did the remake fare? Well, it did add a nice graphical coat of paint to it, and I will give it credit for attempting to tweak the jobs to make them more unique and balanced. Getting a full heal every time you beat a boss seems like a subtle change but it made the final dungeon far more bearable.

But it still suffers from a broken difficulty curve, lots of grinding, and some horrendously bad enemy balancing. Apparently they had actually given the characters a lot more personality, but for whatever reason chose to omit most of the dialogue from the finished product, making them pretty boring. It's better than the original but I doubt I'd play it again.