ReCast FF3: War of the Magitek

New beta version available, version 2.999.  You can find it in the first post of the thread.

Level cap remains halved at 50, but HP growth has been doubled.  I made this adjustment to devalue Cure 2 and also to address difficulties I encountered with the Final Kefka fight, but its effect is felt throughout the game.  The game should now feel roughly vanilla easy throughout the story; in fact it may even be TOO easy in some places (being overleveled is very apparent, and Gau eats enemies in the early game ).
I have... frustrations with the battle and reward structure of ReCast, but... addressing these would involve an entire overhaul of the game's item system and stats function.  I've decided to take Serity's advice and instead fork the project, so that this version can maintain its mostly predictable and familiar battle system.

Battle is a lot more animated than it was before.  This also means there's more animations to let your ATB gauge fill up with.  This too impacts the difficulty; if you find the game too easy you might want to turn the battle speed up or even turn off wait mode.  Hopefully these animations make the game more fun to play.

There are a few new scenes to find... nothing major, but they might pull at your heartstrings.  

This version is not compatible with saves from earlier versions as it uses event bits in different ways.  Since stat growth was changed too, I feel it's appropriate to ask that players start a new save if they want to play this version.

Barring any major bugs being discovered (and fixable), this version will be promoted to Version 3 in January 2022, and I will discontinue support so that I can focus on a combat overhaul fork.