FINAL FANTASY PORTAL APP App Reviews

Like others Ive downloaded this app primarily for the triple triad card game. You have 5 energy crystals in which 1 match uses a crystal. Each crystal will replenish after a whopping 30 minutes! It costs 0.99 for 1 crystal if you dont want to wait. Id rather have payed 5 dollars for the triple triad app alone than to get this pathetic free version. Sigh. Game itself is great and lots of cards have been added. Change this crystal system and it gets 5 stars.

Triple Triad, the card-based game from FF VIII, is included in this app. Its the best (and arguably only) reason to download. Triple Triad is perfect for mobile with great gameplay and lots of cards to collect. HOWEVER! It has some of the worst paywall junk Ive ever seen! After 5 games, you must recharge. A game takes ~40 seconds to play, but the gems you cash in for a play take 30 minutes to regenerate! That means you can blow through your 5 allotted gems in 5 minutes tops, then wont be full up again for 2 1/2 hours! Thats downright silly! To make matters worse, the pay mechanic is stingy and stupid. You cant just buy gems; you must buy Gil first to then spend on gems. Its about $5 for 7 gems/games (youll have "change" left over). That means youre paying about $60 AN HOUR to play! If Square charged $0.99 for 5 gems, that wouldnt be awful. Or a full unlock for $5. But they got greedy, which means people are too insulted to pay, which means Square wont make money, which means WE ALL LOSE!

Title says it all. This app is an essential download for FF fans across the world. If you wanted a one stop spot to get all of the latest information about upcoming final fantasy games you need to download this app. On top of that, the two downloadable games you can get through this app alone are worth a download. I know a lot of people have brought up triple triad as the reason to get this app, but lets face it, you can play the PSP version of the original final fantasy game from within this app. Performance is great on an iPhone 5s and third generation iPad. The only thing stopping it from getting a full five stars is its interface is a bit of a jumble and takes a lot of getting used to. Give this a download, you wont regret it.

Triple triad is fun in the beginning but once you get a few 5 stars (randomly grinding the same enemies over and over) it gets kind of boring. Nothing really left to do.

I love the fact that you brought Triple Triad back. Here is my chief complaint. Please add a number somewhere on the card to indicate the number of cards we have for the specific card. That way we can focus on collecting up to ten cards for card creation. Secondly, please add more characters to face off against. I know you have online battles, but more characters would make it more interesting. Third, offering such a small number of crystals at 20 or so minutes a piece makes you guys seem ultra greedy and the cost to play extra time is a bit high. Add the functionality to purchase card packs and/or good cards. Take a look at the Mortal Kombat X app. It is a good concept. Finally, dont be so cheap with the portal points, and/or allow us to accumulate points from month-to-month. I mean seriously, do you honestly think people will take the time to read the news just to get 2 points? They are going to quickly click through all the articles just to earn their points. At least allow us to accumulate points versus losing them for not using them fast enough.

I obviously got this app for the Triple Triad game. Its something Ive been waiting for for years! Its great they finally came out with it. The game is overall pretty entertaining, its just like the one from FFVIII, which I enjoyed! The reason this app got 3 stars was because of its limitations. The cool down for gems is ridiculous. 30 minutes / gem!? The other issue that bothers me the most is when I am playing against some other human, it tends to get stuck on one or the others turn and it forces me to wait a minute to play against "auto-mode" computer. It happens on three out of four of my games. Is that a bug or are that many people leaving the app after starting a match. PS: people need to play with rules! How can you stand playing no rules every match? :P

Did a data restoration and game works again.

Unfortunately, as they warned, iOS 9 basically broke the app. I cant play Triple Triad on my iPhone 6 anymore because it crashes every time I try to load it. Really cool portal app otherwise though. All the SE news I want in one convenient place! Its like a virtual magazine/catalog!

I played "Triple Triad" in "Final Fantasy VIII" on PS1 and loved it -and I downloaded this application JUST to play TT. That being said, this "version" takes a

I got this app on launch day and had a blast playing Triple Triad. However, since iOS 9 launched, I cant play as it doesnt load.

I havent updated to iOS9 because I wanted to be able to play the game with no issues. I download the update, AND NOW I CANT PLAY ONLINE!! This update didnt fix **ANY** BUGS!!! It literally added more!!! PLEASE FIX IMMEDIATELY!!

App navigation is awful. The triple triad implementation is weak - multiplayer can be slow to set up and the limited number of games (offline as well) is just insulting. The point system for prizes is what is making me write this review for I remove the app. Points are slow to acquire and expire monthly (maybe bi-monthly, Im not even sure now) and everything is so expensive that I dont think I could ever get any of the card prizes before my points would expire.

When i stumbled upon triple triad in this app i was so excited to know that i could vs people all around the world and collect cards, i cant blame iOS 9 for anything wrong cause i got this game after getting iOS 9 but whenever i wait for game center to find me an opponent, it never happens... Ive let it search for a good half hour and nothing... Im sure i am not the only person in the US playing this game let alone the world... Please fix this if there has infact been a high volume of players in versus mode in the past... Hope to see some sort of feedback soon... Otherwise the game itself is an awesome modernized version!!!! ✌

Integrating microtransactions into the app was a terrible idea. You want to play other people but the crystals limit that. You can sit waiting for matches for half an hour, an hour or more now. Huge fail by square for misunderstanding what would make this app work (and only logging in every hour for a few minutes to wait on crystals is just terrible logic).

The update after the update that brought triple triad ruined the triple triad game. Every time I open triple triad it goes to a blank tan screen. If I do the re download thing it works that time but the next time I open the video its the same. Its really annoying and Ive had enough of it, it is getting uninstalled.

The issue is with multiplayer for Triple Triad. You can easily play against CPU opponents, which is a blast for a while and works beautifully. However, the multiplayer features are terrible. You are limited to two options: close proximity via bluetooth, which is fine when and if you are around another player, or auto-matchmaking via the Apple Gamecenter. If you have friends online that are playing, this works just fine. Otherwise, the app attempts to matchmake with another random player online, however it remains on the "searching" screen and never locates a match. I watched my phone attempt to find a match for me for 15 minutes to no avail. This needs to be seriously fixed. This game is made for multiplayer and at this point in time, the app fails miserably. Definitely worth it for some fun, quick matches with CPU, but this grows stale quickly.

The triple triad game would be better if it was just the Final Fantasy VIII version with elements.

I was really excited to see FFII becoming free for a little while, and I thought square enix was being nice for once. Little did I know, getting FFII required this portal app which can only be used with a stable internet connection, you cant even play your downloaded game without Internet. I thought you would were changing square enix.

The game only regenerates 1 crystal every 15 minutes or so but every actual game played is less than 1 minute long. In addition, the prices for the crystals are far too high compared to the amount of playtime exchanged so it is simply not worth the effort. Its a shame they cant just charge a one time fee.

Not Compatible with iOS 6