auronlu | Mar. 9th, 2013

As usual, thanks to Sev and Rina of moogle university for inspiring me to play along.

DIGRESSION BECAUSE NERD.

The original, 1990 Japanese Final Fantasy III starts out differently. It's much more like FFI, with four completely generic, unnamed "Onion Knights" (aka "Onion Kids") bumbling into a cave after an earthquake.

Here's a derpy fan translation of the original:

Official Square material makes all four of them 14, whence the kawaii generic Onion Knight representing FFIII in Dissidia.

In 2006, FFIII finally came out in English via a Nintendo DS remaster that made the heroes more than cardboard and converted 8-bit sprites to 3D chibis. That's the version that got ported to iOS. So with apologies to old-school purists...