Caltrops - Gamerasutra - Re: Why isn't this on a handheld?

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by ydrt 05/06/2003, 1:41am PDT

Vissarion wrote:

This would have been perfect for the Game Boy Advance, especially when you consider that both titles are pretty much direct ports of the handheld Wonderswan Color versions. (Pics: 1, 2) The new content amounts to the opening FMVs and possibly the redone music.

Square's entire Final Fantasy remake project seems to be a fuck you to Nintendo. "Hmmm, we've got a catalog of old games that would be perfect for Nintendo's current handheld system. Why not port them to Sony's ancient console hardware?"

I bought the damn thing for some reason and I doubt it's going to hold my interest even as a time-waster once the novelty effect wears off.

Two points:

1. Square's project for the past 10-odd years has been to say "FUCK YOU" to Nintendo, so it's not too surprising that we haven't seen ports to GBA yet. Square's first game for a Nintendo system in a long time is some title called Final Fantasy Chronicles, and too be honest since I don't have a Gamecube I haven't looked into it a whole lot. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see GBA ports down the line, and those would more than likely make it to the US. It doesn't help things that the Wonderswan is pretty successful in the land of tentacle rape and schoolgirl panties. And why not port them to PSX? It's basically free money for Square.

2. As for it being disappointing, neither I nor Square claimed that it had a lot of new content. I did say that "I play FFI like it was Solitaire, which isn't too far off considering there's virtually no plot and the game is pretty much a time waster." For titles made in 1985-86 or so, I don't think they're too bad and with the ability to make your little dude run on the map screen and auto-retargeting the game moves a lot faster.