I also finished FF1PR on Switch.
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@“Toph”#p127482 the Pixel remaster version is not the same game as the original
I did feel a little strange not just because I used cheats after a certain point, but because of how much the Pixel Remaster version feels like a new game: I played it wanting to get some kind of historical context for the series (and Stranger of Paradise) but didn't want to wade through the NES game, which I assumed would have required a lot of grinding, and which besides has a bunch of nonfunctional mechanics. But after finishing it I'm kind of thinking, man, it would've been sort of cool to wade through a little of that NES game! Probably not finish it, though. I'll dip my toes in someday. With similar context-informative aims I wanted to play the whole game with the original music, but that seemed silly after a while: the game is so different that it's not like playing with the original music makes it any more historically informative/authentic, and also, the new arrangements are [so good](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyXrAJtZvao&t=3480s).
And besides the nominal cheats, how about the dungeon map!
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It even updated which doors you’ve entered so you wouldn’t end up accidentally backtracking
Looking at the map while inside a dungeon room also allows you to see what is in every other room: unsure if that was intentional as it makes many of those rooms completely pointless (i.e. you know there aren't any chests in them).
FF Pixel Remaster without cheats is fun—I played it for about 6 hours that way, it just would have taken much longer to finish and I wasn't up for that.
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I liked naming my party members in this more than in FFs 6 or 7, where the characters have defined personalities and narrative arcs. Giving my monk/blackbelt a feminine name felt almost transgressive. I do enjoy the narrative-heavy FFs more than this early D&D style, but this was cool. Maybe it's time to [Etrian an Odyssey...](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/2599-this-odyssey-isnt-going-to-etrian-itself)
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