Final Fantasy 1987

Is it still worth playing?

Hironobu Sakaguchi's 1987 role playing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, in which four youths, the Warriors of Light, each carry one of the world's four elemental crystals. The four Elemental Fiends have darkened them, and the youths set out to defeat those forces, restore light to the crystals and save the world. Their overworld is a scaled down version of the world, crossed on foot and later by ship, canoe and airship. Enemies are met at random there and in dungeons, and have to be fought or fled from. Between dungeons, towns have citizens with information and shops that sell items and equipment. The dungeons themselves run from forests and caves to swamps and underwater caverns, with rare items in treasure chests. A journey from town to dungeon that the rest of the series grew from is still worth seeing today.