The Gulgan Thus Prophesized: The earthquate was only the beginning. The great tremots that swallowed the crystals, the light of our world, only to spawn monsters from the depths of the scarred land, are nothing but harbingers of what has yet to come.S omething is comming...fathomless, ominous, and full of sorrow. But hope is not yet lost. Four souls will be blessed with light, and so it shall begin.

It's been nearly seventeen years since the original Final Fantasy III was released to Japanese retailers, and the first time to be released outside of Asia. With a medicore plot similar to all Final Fantasies prior to it, Final Fantasy III's gameplay and plot are all compelling and interesting - making Final Fantasy III still a great RPG.

It's been beefed up and enhanced. Final Fantasy III recieves a total body makeover in battles and in the seemingly free-roaming enviroment. Latent to the core, the gameplay does stay original to the roots of Final Fantasy III and it's predecessors. Although battles may seem tedious and seemingly endless to players of more recent Final Fantasies - it's a welcome change back to the old style of gameplay, boasting a well-rounded experience, especially on a handheld console. What's troubling about the game is it can be very difficult or very easy. If you have played the recent installments of Final Fantasy (FFX and beyond), you'll notice that the game doesn't just heal your characters just like that. Phoenix Downs cannot be purchased and are scare, trying to continue to battle in a dungeon or cave-level can affect your preformance at the final dungeon boss. The magic system is somewhat confusing and can be hard to adjust to. Although the game does give you magic you can learn like that - it is hard to adjust to the magic-based jobs, especially if you were using a offensive job before. The job system is a welcome emprovement to more recent installment of the series, where every character had their own installed job or class. However, the job system can be hard to manage sometimes, switching jobs can be hard to adjust to, especially if your in a harder level or region. The Nintendo WiFi features were also disapointing - they lacked any purpose and were just not as fun as you'd hope - online battles? not included, no way - sending mail? - yep that's the the Wifi feaure.

Probably the most noticable features of this remake, the graphical capabilities are amazing, the graphics do better than Final Fantasy VII, and despite rigidness, it can be pretty smooth and pretty to look at. However, there are some graphically-better FMV sequences; disapointingly, they never happen in the game, only on the outside of the game. Although the in-battle graphics are good. the world-roaming is what you'd expect, not as well-kept and its typically to all old Final Fantasies - a unproportional slow moving world with some critically faultly roaming. In-towns and areas are different, they boast seemless good and well-kept graphics.

Not only is Final Fantasy III an old RPG that was great at the time of its original release, it still contends with RPGs today. Despite some shortcomings, it's still an all-around RPG.