I’ve already taken the plunge and purchased the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on Steam when they released last year, and they've been quite good for a dedicated PC session and as portable companions on Steam Deck. When Square Enix announced that an updated version will be hitting consoles next week, I was a little green with envy.
Why? Well, the console version sports some additional features that currently aren’t present in the Steam version. In the announcement trailer, we see that a new pixel-based font has been implemented that has a much wider kerning than previous releases, a decision that was met with widespread derision - and rightly so, as the default font is extremely hard to read at a distance and, well, is just kind of ugly. I can certainly understand how a unified font choice would more easily allow for more localization options into more languages (which is great by all accounts) but I just wish the trade-off hadn't been as severe.
Personally, I replaced it with the font that originally appeared in Final Fantasy VI, a remarkably easy endeavor. It’s got a square-ness and a pixel styling in the Goldilocks zone, though perhaps I’m a tad biased given it
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