When you get Mario 64'd

It is legit a freaking miracle I did all of this without Autosave. The thought of having to start the 3+ hour gauntlet, all because Cloud of Darkness rolled two Particle Beams back-to-back was honestly harrowing in the worst way imaginable.

Admittedly, some of it was self-imposed. With enough grinding, things seem much more manageable and the PR Crystal Tower seem designed around the autosave, but still wasn't a fun challenge regardless.

Even worse, the Pixel Remaster made these bosses massive damage sponges without changing the boss attack patterns or anything.
2-Headed Dragon can still dumpster you in one hit and Cloud of Darkness still spams Particle Beam to infinity while having 120K HP.
Like, the hell?

It's every obnoxious element about FF3 skyrocketing to an insufferable degree:
The long and drawn out dungeons, the ridiculous difficulty curve throughout, the MP Management, the godforsaken Random Turn Order, the night unbearable boss design of absurd HP pools and spamming you with screen nukes...

Just regular hopping.
The issue is that in the Pixel Remaster, mountain hopping jitters in between frames, so it looks like the game is just stuttering.