No, Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters aren’t getting the flak for using the unfortunate font. And, it seems Square Enix is going to release three more of these remasters shortly!

In late July, Steam saw the release of the first three Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, all running on Unity engine, giving the games the classic, 8-bit look, no longer feeling like something ported over from a smartphone. The font, however, was a wrong choice by Square Enix as the usage of Arial Narrow (yes, we went there!) makes the menus look terrible in Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters. Fortunately, the fans quickly found a method to fix it.

The first three Final Fantasy’s remasters aren’t getting bad reviews because of the font. The users gave them pretty bad user average scores on Metacritic. On a 1 to 10 scale, at the time of TheGamer’s article, Final Fantasy’s average score was 0.7, Final Fantasy 2 sunk to 0.8, and Final Fantasy 3 dropped to 1.9 out of 10, respectively. Are the critical voices justified? Let’s put it bluntly: no. No, they aren’t.

The reason why these negative reviews happened (often with 0 out of 10 scores) is because Square Enix hasn’t released these remasters on consoles (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, and since these games originate from the NES, the Nintendo Switch would also gladly take them). Yes, the only reason why these reviews happened is that some players want to play them on consoles.

“Classic games such as Final Fantasy should not be gated behind mobile phones and computers. (But please change the text font before releasing it on the console. Thank you!)”, a review said. We agree with the sentence in the brackets.

Let’s hope that it won’t become a trend and that others will review the games fairly, as they got solid ports on a new engine, which would allow very easy porting to consoles. And, according to SteamDB, Final Fantasy IV pixel remaster will launch on August 9, followed by FFV on September 9, and FFVI on September 30, respectively. And Square Enix hasn’t said a word about them yet!

Source: PCGamer