Based on achievements and trophies statistics, most players absolutely do not do optional content, and most don't even finish games.
It's almost there for me too. I'll say it's exactly what I want when they confirm that it has the original difficulty restored but at least retains auto-retargeting and the tweaks to fix certain broken mechanics.
Scaling the original low res fonts could get pretty ugly, but fonts are one of the easiest things to make higher resolution versions of and look decent, whether that's making a higher resolution bitmap version or turning them into a proper general use font. They're usually one color (plus maybe a shadow or outline effect), and since they're all known characters it's pretty easy to determine where things should be round or sharp or straight lines or whatnot when deciding how to alter the pixels at higher resolution. So get a version of an old font at 9 or 27 (4K-proof, why not) times original size, and it's going to scale down to arbitrary resolutions fine. Here's something I did with the FFIIIus font (minus shadow), going from original to 3x to 9x.
That's 100% what it is.
Level cap is 50 in the original.
You absolutely can blame them, especially since these will not include the bonuses.
Some of us want to play games without the hurdle of emulation. Unfortunately, VI and V on Steam (and Android) are the only ones that have the GBA content. And it seems these remasters won't have that.
I think you're right, it seems it's still wip.
If you like how FFVI looks that's fine, but objectively changing the angle in which the characters are shown in the sprites from slightly angled to flat really pops up for some of us.
You know what the purest version to play is? The original.
Saga Frontier Remastered added a selection menu to include (or exclude) the new content. They could just add one of those.
Like, if we were talking Chrono Trigger DS tier extra content I'd kinda understand this point of view, but the FF ports' (On top of QoL stuff like bugfixes) GBA extra content is pretty great and gives FF1-6 something that they largely didn't have before: An actual postgame, most of which actually makes for a decent challenge and all of which are 100% optional and honestly pretty easy to miss unless you seek it out in-game.
It's been argued that re-targeting takes away some of the strategy.
You're gonna pay DLC to get all of that and you are going to like it.
Mostly agree with this, though Sealed Temple in FFV Advance was probably the one extra dungeon in the GBA ports worth salvaging, since it at least had some fun gimmicks, so that'd be worth keeping around. I'd say Lunar Ruins in FFIV Advance could probably be re-worked into a boss rush, and Omega Weapon was pretty neat in FFVI Advance as well.
I'd be fine with an auto target toggle, ala the PS1 version. Spell charges I get, but I refuse to go back to the bullshit NES targeting system.
That's what I'm holding out hope for.
