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Final Fantasy III DS

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Final Fantasy III is one of the best games on the DS. It even surpasses Mario Kart!



The Good: Great-looking fully 3D visuals breathe new life and personality into an old game; job system helps add variety and depth to all of the combat; lengthy quest will keep you busy for hours and hours.

The Bad: 3D visuals could have been smoother, and the DS's top screen is barely used; game can feel punishing at times, partly due to the lack of save points.

If you're a longtime Final Fantasy player, then the first thing that probably comes to mind when you think of Final Fantasy III is the classic 1994 role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. However, it's now widely known that this was, in fact, the sixth game in the series; it was published at a time when developer Square was muddling up the numbering conventions between Japan and North America, since several Final Fantasy chapters that came out in Japan never made it stateside. Now there's finally a proper English-language version of the real Final Fantasy III, which was originally published for the Famicom in 1990, the very same year that the very first Final Fantasy game arrived in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Of course, this is hardly just a straight port of the original game, thanks to a completely overhauled presentation. With its attractive new look, Final Fantasy III feels like a whole new game. Its gameplay and storyline may seem conventional by today's standards, but in another sense, a game like this goes to show how little role-playing games have evolved over the past 15 years or so.

Those who've followed the Final Fantasy series will instantly recognize that this game's distinctive character design is a spitting image of 1999's excellent Final Fantasy Tactics, with the difference being that this game is fully 3D. The doll-like player characters of Final Fantasy III are terribly cute and sharply contrasted by the relatively realistic-looking variety of monsters they'll frequently encounter. This visual style, while very different from the pixelated 2D sprites from the 8-bit Nintendo days, still is faithful to the spirit of the early games in the series, which also pitted cute little warriors and magic users against nasty-looking enemies several times their size. More importantly, the game looks and sounds impressive on the Nintendo DS, between its detailed 3D graphics and its unmistakably Final Fantasy musical score.

The presentation does have a couple of minor downsides, unfortunately. The game doesn't move as smoothly as its 2D counterparts, which hampers the pacing of combat as well as simple acts like bringing up the character menu screen. And Final Fantasy III all but completely neglects the DS's top screen, which is blank most of the time during play. You get a map while exploring the overworld, but you're on your own in the game's various dungeons. This isn't that big of a deal, but it seems awfully strange that you don't get so much as a pretty picture to look at up there.

The Final Fantasy series is known for featuring completely new worlds, storylines, and characters from one installment to the next, with certain overarching themes and gameplay elements tying every game together. Final Fantasy III shows a lot of these common themes in their purest form. The plot is simple: An orphaned boy named Luneth discovers a magical crystal, which informs him that he's got an important, save-the-world type of job to do. Early on, he's joined by a shy friend named Arc, a spunky blacksmith's daughter named Refia, and a guardsman named Ingus. Together, they set off to discover the secrets of the four elemental crystals hidden around the world, and in so doing, they learn a few surprises about the world itself. They'll meet and travel with some supporting characters along the way. One of the differences between this version of Final Fantasy III and the original is that the main characters now have clearly defined personalities, and they're a likable lot. The game's dialogue is written well enough, and the simple story works to compel you to brave tougher and tougher challenges.
Your characters are free to change professions at any time. Go on, you know you want to try having four dragoons.

Remember when role-playing games were all about random monster encounters, leveling up, finding new loot, and exploring different towns and dungeons? Oh, wait. In any case, Final Fantasy III originally helped make the mold in the first place. However, Final Fantasy fans will note a few key differences in this game's combat system. This is true turn-based combat, not the "active time battle" system of later Final Fantasies. So at the beginning of a battle, you get to give orders to each of your party members and then watch as those orders are resolved; statistics determine the order in which your characters and their opponents act. A combination of weapon attacks, damaging black magic spells, and restorative white magic spells, plus some items and special abilities, are the keys to success. Some foes will use status-altering effects to throw you off, or they may be particularly vulnerable to certain types of damage. -- Gamespot.com


My rating: 9.5/10

If the graphics were a tad better, and the top screen used more often (maybe gameplay on the top screen and controls on the bottom, like in Pokemon Diamond or Pearl) then this game would get a 10/10.

Mario Kart DS

Mario Kart DS is, by far, THE best racing game on the Nintendo DS so far, and it's been out for over 2 years now!

Mario Kart DS is basically a classic arcade racer. There isn't a storyline, and you have the usual racing modes, like Championship, and V.S. (aka single race). However, you also have modes like Missions, which have you complete somewhat funny tasks with your Kart, and Kart Battle, which places you in a arena with other racers, in which you have to use various Mario Kart weapons, like Red and Green shells, etc.


(the graphics look better than in this screenshot.)

Mario Kart DS, like other Mario Kart games, includes "classic courses" along with new ones. Classic courses are courses from past Mario Kart games. MK DS has courses from the SNES, N64, GBA, and Gamecube Mario Kart games.

My rating: 10.0/10

Mario Kart DS is arguably the best Mario Kart game so far. More characters, more courses, and even more weapons (expect a lot of multi-colored explosions!!).

Also, if you complete all of the championships with stars as your rankings, you unlock a character that will be familiar to many NES fans.... Let's just say he's pretty ..."mechanical"....

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Gamecube version)

The Good: Outrunning the cops is extremely exciting; outstanding sound effects; sharp graphics; tones down some of the over-the-top product placement found in the previous nfs games; mindblowing full-motion video cutscenes.

The Bad: Racer AI isn't too bright at first, gets wicked smart later on; not enough mindblowing full-motion video cutscenes.

EA's long-running Need for Speed series took a trip underground a couple of years back when the developer refocused the game solely on illegal street racing. While the nighttime racing series was certainly successful, the lawless world was always missing one key factor: cops. This year's installment crawls back into the daylight. The actual racing hasn't changed too much, but the ever-present police make this game a whole lot more interesting.

Need for Speed hasn't had cops for awhile, and they make a welcome return in Most Wanted.
The game's career mode starts out with a hilarious bang. You take on the role of a nameless, faceless new racer attempting to hit the scene in the city of Rockport. An underground ranking known as the Blacklist governs who can race who, and when. You almost immediately run into a punk named Razor, who's definitely the sort of dude that lives his life a quarter-mile at a time. He's at the bottom of the list, but a few races later, he's sabotaged your ride and has won it from you in a race. Meanwhile, you're carted off to jail. Left with nothing but some mysterious help from a stranger named Mia, your task is to get back in the race game to work your way to the top of the Blacklist, which is now topped by Razor, who's using your old car to wipe out the competition. -- www.gamespot.com

My rating: 9.5/10

It's the best street racing game so far, at least until I can play NFS: Carbon.

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: Wild World on the DS is a sequel to the Animal Crossing on the Gamecube.

AC: WW is considered by many to be better than it's Gamecube counterpart, for many reasons. One of those reasons is the improved multiplayer. Players can hang out with people from around the world online over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Also, when the player is typing something, he/she doesn't have to scroll through half the keyboard just to hit one letter. Instead, you can tap out what you want to write/ say with the stylus on the touch screen.

For those of you who have never played any Animal Crossing game, AC is basically a game in which you have a virtual life. In that life, you have to pay off loans on your house, decorate your house with furniture, and hang out with the towns residents (which are all animals, thus the name "Animal Crossing").

Another thing that makes AC: WW stand out is that it all takes place in REAL TIME, with day and night, the whole works.

Animal Crossing: Wild World is a great game, but after a while it starts getting repetitive. Luckily, there are many unlockable items and activities, the best ones occurring when you invite someone into your town.

My rating: 9.0/10

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

Mario & Luigi: Partners in time is an EXCELLENT game for the Nintendo DS. The game is a rather funny take on Mushroom Kingdom and its residents.

In the game, Mario and Luigi must go back in time to save Princess Peach from mushroom-like aliens called "Shroobs". When they go back in time, they meet and team up with their baby selves in order to save the kingdom from the invading aliens.

Their are many funny moments in Mario & Luigi, but their are too many to tell in one blog. The most memorable battle, however, is when you have to fight Bowser and Baby Bowser. Whenever one of Baby Bowsers attacks misses, for example, he throws a temper-tantrum.

I would tell you more, but that would ruin the game.

My rating: 9.0/10

It would be a 10/10, but the final boss is IMPOSSIBLE.

Gears of War

Gears of War is the best game the Xbox 360 has so far. It's also the bloodiest.

Gears of War has some people saying that it will replace Halo. In my opinion, that's completely impossible. NOTHING can replace Halo, especially since Halo 3 isn't even out yet.

I don't know much about single player, but multiplayer is...well... impossible to deascribe!!

Although I haven't had a chance to play it yet, according to friends, internet resources, and X-Play (a TV show on G4, channel 354 on some sattelites) Gears of War is EXCEPTIONAL when it comes down to it.

My Rating: 10/10