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#Run1 Neat! Wing Raptor gets the proper boss breakup instead of the normal enemy one. Also, I still really love the purples used for this effect.

And King Tycoon gets a ripple effect when entering for the Crystal exposition.

My first job is White Mage. The Pixel Remaster makes it clear that the command the job adds to your command menu is the level 6 variation of white magic ("!White Magic Lv. 6 - Perform level 6 or lower white magic"), and the flails have been given their own weapon icon instead of sharing the same icon as hammers.

...unfortunately, my game crashed just after I declined the tutorial. At least I saved before entering the Wind Shrine, although there was also an autosave after getting the wind jobs. All I had to do was assign my jobs again.

Stella doesn't have green hair, and child Bartz doesn't have blue hair. : 0 "Home, Sweet Home" sounds good, though.

"Piano skill leveled up!"

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"Come here, my cherub." Well, that's a different line at the Ship Graveyard.

Pixel Remaster has the best version of "Harvest" by far. The instruments are less shrill and the "Yahoo!" really embellishes the mood.

Pixel Remaster puts check marks next to spells you already own in the magic shops and you can't accidentally try to buy them.

I started making use of the ability to quickly return to the title screen on North Mountain. Rock Slugs and Gaelicats are just a little strong for white mages even at levels 8 and 9, and I just didn't want to spend phoenix downs at this point. I also knew I can prevent regen and drain with silence, but I kept fumbling the timing.

Some of the background music has been extended in the new arrangement and it's been good, but "What?" has become quirkier and that's going to take a little getting used to.

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I normally do not escape battles whenever there's a chance I can get the ability to wield the Brave Blade, but with the Pixel Remaster, you can restore its power by fighting battles, so I am now running from a few when, say, a character dies and I can go back to a save point to use a tent to revive.

The sap status/seizure status/damage over time effect from Garula's Rush and similar attacks is much slower on this version, so it's much more manageable.

My second job is Blue Mage, so now I get to go back to North Mountain and get blinded as well as try to get hit by Aera and Death Claw during Karnak.

The Pixel Remaster has the character's sprites shaded and with the distortion effect as though they are submerged in water, when all the older versions make it look like they're still in the air during the Walse Tower collapse. Not that what happens really makes a lot of sense either way.

*sad plesiosaur noise*

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Changing equipment in battle is a bit different than I expected in Pixel Remaster, but it is functionally the same. You actually save some button presses and there's a filter for only weapons you can currently equip.

There's no pop culture reference on the whip.

In the Pixel Remaster, the soldier from Karnak did not have a colored uniform than everyone else to stand out from everyone else.

Going into the menu while you're in jail in Karnak doesn't advance the timer for when Cid uses introductory explosives. I'm not sure it is a timer in this version; it might be a step counter or a tile trigger.

For the first time, I went back to the Ship Graveyard to learn Transfusion from Calcruthl.

Defeater's death no longer plays the usual enemy animation, nor does it have the two Motor Traps drop down from the top of the screen. Instead, they sort of flicker in and out of existence. Motor Trap also doesn't seem to react to thunder rod.

Transparency effect in the Fire-Powered Ship's ducts is not as clear as the cut-away on older versions.

I couldn't run from a Gigas monster-in-a-box.

My third job is Chemist, just got to get it.

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The sight radius is just as pointless in the Library of the Ancients in Pixel Remaster as it is in the GBA port.

Unlike GBA, if you stand off to the side of Ifrit before initiating that fight, you don't stay there after, so the book doesn't just slide down the screen and disappear when you're supposed to take it.

You can still trigger the encounter square before the save point in B3 of the Library then run and the way will be opened.

Healing Staff wasn't undoing confusion from the Confuse spell during the Byblos fight, but it worked in random encounters with Mindflusher and Poltergeist, which have confusion as a side-effect of their Lick attacks.

In Bartz's flashback, he has green boots as a child.

The new arrangement of the black chocobo music is expanded, sounds good, but also ends its intro with, "Ew!"

Getting to see the whole area around the pyramid in the Desert of Shifting Sands by expanding the minimap is interesting. I miss Galuf's line about crossing burning sand twice a day, though. Mid's line about magic is still there.

You can't skip the Catapult - Living Quarters puzzle to get the Mini spell.

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My final job is Beastmaster. This was a unique order, but White Mage and Blue Mage are my second and third most frequent jobs (behind Red Mage) and Chemist and Beastmaster can be quite powerful when combined with them. Even with only a White Mage and Blue Mages, I got through Archaeoaevis by abusing Transfusion and Raise. I tried this out on Soul Cannon, but it wasn't as well-suited to the speed of that fight even wih the more forgiving sap status on this version. Still, it says something about my comfort when I'm killing characters to keep things interesting.

Healing Staff did not undo the confusion from Rocket Punch. Very strange.

I could change the experience multiplier to 0 on this version to avoid a large gap in levels between Galuf and the rest of the party, if I just want ability points for these last two jobs.