Final Fantasy Legend III

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Final Fantasy Legend III is the only SaGa game not to be produced by Akitoshi Kawazu, so its gameplay and presentation are considerably different. Whether that makes it more accessible, or more boring and "vanilla", is open to the player's interpretation.

It was remade for the Nintendo DS, like its predecessor.

To do: A lot of translation differences (raw text dump: US, JP). Also check for unused text.

Unused Items#

Many of these are blank in the English version.

Use code 01??01C7 (where "??" is one of the below) to modify the item in the second slot in the item list. The first entry is for the English version, the second for the Japanese version.

Unused Abilities#

To do: Provide cheat code.

The Talent "X-Heat" is not possessed by any monster, beast, cyborg, robot, or boss in the game. It's a single-target instant death attack with a unique animation: the screen fades to white like the White spell or the Talon's cannon, and then the same grim reaper sprite as the other instant death attacks appears over the target. In the Japanese version, this talent's name is houshanou (Radiation).

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japan	US

Monster Sprites#

Three monsters were changed in the English version.

Japan	US

What was once a crazy robot nurse became a bizarre abstraction with gigantic lips and long hair(?)...

Japan	US

A dual-knife-wielding cyborg ninja surgeon was transformed into some sort of skull-headed pirate wielding twin sickles. This change and the previous one were likely made in order to avoid portraying medical professionals as scary or antagonistic to children. Despite the change, the two monsters still frequently appear as NPCs in laboratories throughout the game.

Japan	US

The creepy clown monsters used to be creepy puppet clown drummers. Take your pick as to which one is worse.

(A possible reason for the switch is that the drummer version is based on the mascot for the rather famous and now-defunct Cui-daore Restaurant in Osaka, the Kuidaore Taro. The reference would go over the heads of most non-Japanese players.)