Current Game: Final Fantasy IV DS
Platform: DS on my DS Lite
Current playthrough: 3rd time for Final Fantasy IV, 1st for the DS version
Current game completion: I would say around 80% if not more.
Current party: Cecil, Kain, Edge, Rosa, & Rydia
Current levels: 59, 60, 55, 59, & 58 (in order of how I listed my party).
Current location: Sealed Cave
Current in game clock: 27:52
How have I been using my in game time? Have done plenty of training because of the annoying difficulty spikes that test my nerve. I've also played some of Whyte's mini-games which are simple yet fun.
Current objective: Leave the Sealed Cave
Next objective: To the moon.
Thought(s) of the game where I'm currently at: Well right now I'm enjoying the game as I'm on an even footing with the enemies, plus they aren't uber-powerful with abilities that can almost wipe your party just by doing it once.
Total game overs: Not sure but I'll go with > 20.
Favourite event so far?: Whenever Cid has talked via voice actor; his VA makes him sound scary, like he's going to eat ya. It has added a new dimension of humor in the game for me.
Favourite character: Quite a few choices I can go with. Cecil the main character whose journey of inner-struggle is wonderous or Kain dealing with his love for Rosa, frienship to Cecil, and being a pawn to Golbez. Rubicante gets some appreciation for being such an unique villian, especially at the time of release. Finally there is Cid - even though the ol' fart should've died - his VA makes me happy to see him. To choose though I'll go with Cecil, the strong main character.
Random Stat: Nothing really noteworthy that I can think of.
Rate the game: Well I've gotten pretty far into the game and so far the DS version is my least favourite version of Final Fantasy IV, even though it has a lot on the Final Fantasy Chronicles version. The fake deaths as poor plot devices and some other bad plot devices have stuck with me this time along with the horrid difficulty spikes that make the game unbearable sometimes. I've made mention that I thought about restarting Final Fantasy IV by playing the GBA version - my favourite. So I'll give it [DS version] a rating of... ... 2 and a half stars.
Comments: Once I beat this version I most likely won't ever be touching it again and will be replaying Final Fantasy IV Advance. The voice-acting is pretty good though I'm not too hard to impress. The augment system does spice up the plain battle system that FF IV had. Hopefully I can enjoy the final parts of the game.
06/15/2010 Edit: Well I beat the game earlier today and I think of upping the rating of this game to 3 stars out of 5 as it became more enjoyable, as the previous versions were. I was greatly surprised that with the difficulty spikes in this game that the moon was pretty easy - that place used to be a death zone.
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