Final Fantasy finally starting to take its shape with the 3rd game.
Overall it's an enjoyable experience, although the last dungeons started to wear me off.

The story is ok, if nothing special. It's nice to have some level of characterization to your party leader and NPCs, but it's still very rudimentary.

Even though the job system is very basic and lacks depth, it does break up the monotony a little, making the game more fun. Also liked the world in FF3 much more compared to the 1st game. It was very nice revelation to see how the map is larger than it initially appeared to be.

Final Fantasy has always been a series I've wanted to get into as I've never beaten a single one in the series so I figured I'd start all the way from the beginning...

And yeah.. It's interesting to see where it all started, but as a J-RPG and as a video game it's aged terribly. The story, if you can call it one, is just too basic and there's zero character development. You play a silent party of blank cardboard characters.

The combat is incredibly boring, for vast majority of the game I found myself just using auto-battle with "Attack". There's nothing else to it, because the game offers no challenge at all. You get so much money I just stocked my inventory full with potions to keep going. The constant barrage of random enemy encounters only make it more frustrating.

I did kinda like the exploration and figuring out where to go next with the little clues you get from NPCs and key items.

Regardless while it's a very flawed and aged game, it's an important first step they would later improve upon.