Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters coming to Nintendo Switch with a much-needed update

techradar.com:

The Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster, which includes modernized versions of Final Fantasies 1 through 6, is set to be released for consoles on April 19. 

The remasters have been available on PC and mobile for a while but will be imminently arriving on Nintendo Switch and PS4. The new release date has been accompanied by a delightful fresh trailer, treating viewers to game scenes and a gorgeous orchestral arrangement of the Final Fantasy series’ central theme. 

The release trailer promises “an experience to bridge the ages” and offers a new generation of gamers a chance to enjoy Square Enix’s classic sprite-based RPGs. It’s an excellent opportunity for anyone even remotely curious to delve into the franchise's history. 

Square Enix has often stumbled when remastering its older games. When Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster launched in 2021, they were notorious for having awful, difficult-to-read text(opens in new tab) due to poor font choice. It’s telling, then, that the first major feature touted in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster trailer is the new, far more legible pixel font. 

Though it may not be to everyone’s tastes, I see the new font as a marked improvement from the old. It does a good job of preserving the classic Final Fantasy aesthetic while maintaining legibility at higher resolutions. That being said, your mileage may vary with any matter of aesthetic taste. Why not watch the trailer below and judge for yourself? 

Those first half-dozen Final Fantasy games were instrumental in inventing and popularizing dozens of RPG mechanics that remain the backbone of the genre today. The job system, introduced in Final Fantasy 3, would go on to inform future class-based combat systems. 

In addition to obvious successors to this system,