The animation looks westernized? Whats that even supposed to mean? lol everyone throws around the "westernization" word at everything now.

Do the characters move in an obese american cheezeburger way?
Are the magic lightning effects less blue than if it were un-westernized? :P

If you don't mind the decrease in difficulty over previous versions the PSP version of FFII, which is what I assume was ported here, is by far the best and most balanced version of the game. No more hitting your own characters. Magic and Stat gains are faster and not "broken." HP gains are also much faster. The PSP version is by far the most polished release of FFII so far.

Whether or not the PSP version of FFI is "best" is debatable, since all semblance of difficulty in the base game has been removed (though the optional bosses are rather hard). Certainly, it has the most to do, though. It seems like a good game to get for your phone.

Also, as mentioned, how have the games been "westernized?" You can't be serious.

Controls lag, loading time is a bit much, even moving lags. It's still a port of one of my favorite games though. Maybe we can finally get some of the bug fixes they've missed in EVERY PREVIOUS VERSION. For instance, weapon critical hit rate is FUBAR. It'd be nice if they'd add a classic graphics mode and old school systems (exp being normalized instead of sub-FFO easy mode among other things). What I'd really like is a version with the original graphics, original stats and so on, but with some of the benefits of the remakes (option to turn on or off auto-retargetting would be nice). Also the lack of auto-run is rather annoying.

Aurain: If you were saying that about any other FF you'd have people jumping your shit. Pity so few people give FF2 a fair chance and actually learn the mechanics of the game. Like how evade is one of the most important stats you have. Even over HP. Death spells work REALLY well. And so on. It's the most customizable game in the series and it gets shit on because it's different.

Overall I'd stick with the GBA or PSP ports. In that order.

The WSC version is still my second favorite. If it had the easy mode from FFO it'd rank as my favorite version. Even if I can't understand it in moon speak. Then again I beat the GBA version in Japanese.

I tried downloading one of them to see how well it controlled, but all the links were bad on ipa hosts. I definitely won't buy this again unless it's spectacular, or at least cheaper.

I thought the touchscreen controls were actually pretty nice. I wasn't expecting it to be so natural.

Someone mentioned some lag, and my (jailbroken running stuff in the background and usually laggy in games) iPhone 3G had some issues loading the very first battle after I started the game up - the loading was so slow I was about to say no thanks because I didn't want to wait every battle. Surprisingly, after the first battle, all the rest had no abysmal loading times and transitioned nicely from field to battle.

There are still some stutters entering and exiting buildings where it seems like the game has finished loading (you can see everything) but the controls don't pop up for a few seconds, so you are stuck just standing in the doorway.

Others have also mentioned the difficulty. It certainly is easy mode (I haven't played the PSP version so I can't compare to that, but to original NES...)

Because of the easy difficulty, I often find myself wishing there were alternate controls for the battles. The way it is set up, you have to click what you want each character to do, and then click on the enemy you want to target. In the case of stuff that is no treat to you tapping "attack" and then tapping an enemy gets somewhat annoying for all 4 characters. It would be nice if there was some kind of "all attack" or even just a way to keep tapping in one spot to advance the menus.

Overall I am pretty impressed though, it will certainly keep me busy in my downtime.

I would be more interested if they were 1.99. $9 seems very high.

$9? Are you kidding? I could buy Plants vs Zombies three times for that price.

I was really looking forward to this, I just didn't think it would be priced at $9. Maybe, after PvZ has run its course on my phone, I'll pick it up.

I downloaded FF1 an hour or so ago, enjoying it so far, not had any problems with conrtols or slowdown yet. So yeah, happy.