Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster

The Pixel Remaster series remasters the first six installments of the Final Fantasy series originally released between 1987 and 1994 on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It marks the first international release of the original Final Fantasy III, the first release of I and II on PC, the first widescreen release of V and VI, and the first release of I through VI on Xbox. (top) and the Pixel Remaster version (bottom). The player character is in the overworld visiting the city Cornelia. An illustration gallery featuring character, monster, and concept art done by long-time series artist Yoshitaka Amano, a music player, and a bestiary of enemies encountered by players throughout the games have been implemented. The subsequent Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 releases added additional gameplay enhancers such as a newly swappable classic pixel typeface for the user interface, CRT filters, the ability to toggle between the remastered soundtrack and the original compositions for each game, multipliers for the amount of experience points and gil earned after battles, a toggle for disabling random encounters, as well as a Quick Save function also able to be used within dungeons. These features were eventually patched into the Windows and mobile releases in 2024. The Pixel Remasters lack the changes and additional content implemented in other versions of the games, most notably the dungeons, superbosses, jobs, and other bonus content featured in the Game Boy Advance versions and later iterations based upon them, such as Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection. == Development and release ==

The Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series was announced at E3 2021 with games to be published on iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows via Steam. Preceding the launch of the Pixel Remaster series, the prior 2010 mobile releases of Final Fantasy and II, 2014 mobile releases of V and VI, as well as their 2015 Steam iteration, were delisted from digital platforms as of July 28, 2021. The 3D Nintendo DS remakes of Final Fantasy III and IV were retitled and remain available on digital platforms. On December 18, 2022, the 35th anniversary of the Final Fantasy franchise, Square Enix announced the Pixel Remaster series would release on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in spring 2023. The console versions released on April 19, 2023, alongside the Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster -FF35th Anniversary Edition- physical collector's edition including all six games, and introduced new quality-of-life enhancements; the selection of a pixel-based font, modifiers for the encounter rate and amount of EXP, "gil", and Ability Points gained, rebalanced difficulty, and the selection between the original NES (for the former three games) and SNES (for the latter three games) or remastered soundtracks. Furthermore, the remastered soundtrack of Final Fantasy VI featured vocals from the Opera House scene in Japanese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Korean. On January 30, 2024, the Steam and mobile versions were updated to include the quality-of-life features introduced in the console release with version 1.1.0. On September 26, 2024, at Tokyo Game Show, all six games were released on Xbox Series X and Series S. In March 2025, the game was updated to version 1.2.0, which mostly included UI and control improvements, as well as bug fixes. == Reception ==

The Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series received generally positive reception. According to review aggregator Metacritic, all six remasters, as well as the compiled collection featured in the -FF35th Anniversary Edition- collectors edition, received "generally favorable" reviews for Windows, Sales The series has sold over three million units worldwide as of September 2023. == See also ==