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Mar 14, 2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

DS Preview | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

The last outing for Marvel's fab four, published by Activision, not 2K Games, was a mediocre affair with predictable button-bashing action that barely tested your skills. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer benefits from PS3's bolder, crisper graphics, while the gameplay's been enhanced to test your wit as well as your rapid-finger ...
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Jan 23, 2008

Review: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of...

DS Preview | Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

Like the original Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles on GameCube, Ring of Fates is a dungeon-crawling adventure that plays a little bit like a faster-paced Phantasy Star Online. You control one plucky young warrior, accompanied ideally by three like-minded friends with whom youll combine magic attacks and take specialised roles in the relentless combat that forms the bulk of the game. The D-pad makes your bloke scamper around, and every other button is used for picking things up, attacking with ...
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May 30, 2007

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

DS Preview | Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

There have been two brand new Japanese trailers of FFCC which makes us very excited indeed. The graphical style is in keeping with the recent Final Fantasy III on DS, which is one of the prettiest DS games ever seen. One trailer shows a little cutscene of the two main characters examining a crystal, while the other one (surely the shortest trailer in the world) shows a teeny bit of fighting gameplay. The fighting looks very free, with impressive-looking Matrix-jumps and moves designed to kill ...
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May 13, 2007

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates -...

DS Preview | Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on the GameCube was, well, a bit problematic. Some great ideas - making an action-based, cooperative Final Fantasy - worked well. Others... like keeping your characters chained together by forcing them to stay in a tiny circle of light or take damage, or making everyone use a GBA to control the game, were not so great. Fortunately, the developers have learned from user feedback and are making changes to FFCC: Ring of Fates for the DS. Since each player has his ...
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Feb 22, 2007

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - first...

DS Preview | Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales

We recently got our first hands-on look at Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, the latest FF spin-off featuring one of our favorite icons of the series. Our time with the game was divided into three sections: minigames, microgames, and card battles. First off, the art style of the game is unapologetically cute. Drawing inspirations from Aesop's Fables and other children's stories (hence the name Final Fantasy Fables), each minigame has a theme from a classic children's story. To go along with ...
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Nov 7, 2006

Final Fantasy III - updated hands-on

DS Preview | Final Fantasy III

We're in the middle of an old-school Final Fantasy renaissance. This time last year FFIV appeared on the Game Boy Advance, and this very week we'll see FFV make its GBA debut - but next week, the only Fantasy to never make the leap across the Pacific arrives with a totally new look, sound and presentation. Originally released on the Famicom in 1990 (that's the Japanese NES, just so you know), FFIII comes to DS with completely redone graphics that put in on par with Final Fantasy VII - maybe ...
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May 23, 2006

Final Fantasy III

DS Preview | Final Fantasy III

Monday 22 May 2006 Final Fantasy III, the last game in the series to finally make it out of Japan, is being remade from scratch for Nintendo DS. Featuring full 3D graphics and tweaked gameplay, this is another adventure that fans who loved the GBA remakes will gobble up. According to the team behind the game, the idea was not to give a whole new experience, but instead to offer the original classic experience in a new way. The result is a game that's about as traditional as can be. But if ...
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May 10, 2006

E3 06: Final Fantasy III hands-on

DS Preview | Final Fantasy III

The history of the Final Fantasy series is notoriously spotty in the US. But we all know the series is a mega-hit, now, too. The last game to make its journey to the U.S. is Final Fantasy III, which is being remade from scratch for the Nintendo DS. Featuring full 3D graphics and tweaked gameplay, this is another adventure that fans who loved the GBA remakes will gobble up. According to the team behind the game, the idea was not to give a whole new experienced but instead to offer the original ...
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Mar 1, 2006

Final Fantasy III

DS Preview | Final Fantasy III

By the end of this year, the Game Boy Advance should be home to all the classic Final Fantasy games in their original forms. All but one, that is. Final Fantasy III has been singled out for a DS-sized upgrade, gaining a brand new face and other as yet unnamed features. The original FFIII was only released for the Japanese NES in 1990, and has never been officially translated into English. The fact it's coming out at all is enough to make Fantasy fanatics run for their stash of Phoenix Downs. ...
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Jan 15, 2008

DS-only games coming this year

DS Preview | Final Fantasy IV (DS)

Jan 15, 2008 Final Fantasy IV Lost your bearings? FFIV is the one that introduced the ‘Active Time Battle System - the same time-meter-based attack system thats been used in pretty much all Final Fantasy games since. You might have seen IV before on GBA or maybe even PSOne - but never like this. You get the same 3D refit as the recent FFIII remake. You get voices. You get animated cutscenes. And you get one of historys greatest traditional RPGs, playable on the ...
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