Final Fantasy IV DS

Written by Rawrb on August 26th 2008, 4:31 PM (

My favorite RPG from my pre-teenie years gets a facelift. This time though, it's just just a tummy tuck and a boob job. READ!

Rawrb's Final Verdict!

Gameplay

4/5

Just freaking fun.

Graphics

4.5/5

All amazing. The deformed character models presented next to the actual CG models is weird.

Music/Sound

3/5

My favorite FF soundtrack didn't quite get the best midi port, but it wasn't bad.

Replay Value

4/5

Has tons of replayability with assigning skills.

Originality

3.5/5

It's Final Fantasy! Wow.

Overall: 3.8/5

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One Born Under a Whale?

Oh the anticipation for THIS game. My first SNES RPG was Final Fantasy II (a translated, slightly bastardized version of Final Fantasy IV from Japan), and this came out when I was budding into the world of obsessive gaming. I played through that game 1,223,470,928,734 time. I knew just about every line in that game and pretended I WAS Cecil stabbing zombies, becoming a Paladin, blah blah blah.

I ended up picking up the re-releases of FFIV that came out for the PSOne, then the Game Boy Advance, and now... a complete remake of the game for the DS.

The gang's all here!
It's a PAWRTAWR! Without the beer and hookers.

Crystal Sword? I don't think so.

Cecil steals a crystal, gets demoted to Mist Dragon extermination, accidentally murders the Mist Villiage, and sets off to overthrow Baron from it's mysterious evildoing. Same exact story except presented all fancylike.

The obvious change is the 3D engine remake which definitely does the original justice. It's cool to see the bosses and fiends animated with tons of detail - something I've wanted to see for a VERY long time (ever since Final Fantasy VII came out). There is a very cool CG into that shows, in great detail, what the memorable characters look like. It's a strange sense of nostalgia to see adult Rydia as she would look if she were standing right in front of me, giving me her phone number. Well, in actuality she'd be casting Titan on me, but... let's not get into that. Unforunately this is the only CG you will see throughout the entire game.

But what confuses me the most is direction for the characters in the gameplay itself. They have huge heads and don't match the art in the CG. Hey, I understand there might be limitations with the DS tech, but I would have preferred to see the characters in their full figured, not-so-kiddie adult form.

This is just me being a picky fanboy.

Sensual music of... SENSUALITY!?

The best part of any Final Fantasy game is, without contest, it's music. This was the case since the original NES release here in the states in 1987. The music MADE the game. Sure, it's fun to build levels and find stuff, but the music was the glue that adhered your eyeballs to your television screen.

Final Fantasy IV's music was incredible. When I first heard it on the SNES, I was immediately hooked and obsessed. I even taped the music and listened to it seperately. Yeah... I mean, I lifted weights and played football for hours and hours. *nervous laughter*

The FFIVDS's music is a... somewhat faithful reprise of the original music. Yeah it's the same songs. Yeah they're still memorable. It's not that they MIDI is bad, it's just... bland. There's no real