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Definetly the best of the Famicon era FF's and the game still easily holds up to today's standards. I have actually never heard any real complaints with this game and though I wish I had played the original the DS version has made me quite happy since it's far from a lazy port.

The gameplay is fun (am I the only one here who feels the Geomancers are just insanely broken?), the story is especially incredible and deep when you realize when it was originally written. Desch, Unne, and Doga are some amazing characters and it definely has that old school addictive charm.

I'm still waiting to hear my favorite track from the game though... "Roaming Sheep". (SPOILER)I have to defeat Doga and Unei so I can go to Eureka.
Yeah, I also believe it's the best of the Famicon era and also had an incredible story. But I see almost every player of this game shove FF III's story (unrightly so) in FF II's shadow.

And there are actually quite some complaints against FF III DS. Maybe not so much on eyesonff, but certainly on other places I visit. Like how the 3D is horrible, the difficulty insanely nerfed, how no safe points in dungeons suck, how the story is crap, the game way too difficult, that it shouldn't have gone 3D cause now it's crap that has lost the only thing that could have saved it: nostalgia, how it should have stayed in Japan and so on. It's purely depressing.

Oh, and I hope you'll be as impressed with Eureka as I was. Eureka really is an impressive place. The music and the looks of that place are great, IMHO. if there's a place that they really improved in every aspect over the original, it has to be the Forbidden Land Eureka.
f*** the complaints. I'm playing through this game again right now and i think it's one of my favorite FF's. I played a rom of it once (it was badly patched), so if it wasn't for this I probably would never have played III. As far as 3D ruining the nostalgia factor, to me this eerily had an NES feel to it. Just the way the overworld was represented, the way the screen changes when you enter/exit an area, I think it really combined the best of the old with the best of the new.

Also I think they did a great job of balancing the utility of the different jobs, which I hear was a great improvement upon the original. I'm at about endgame and I'm using characters I've never used in FF, like the Ranger and the Bard (yeah, I said it).

In a way, this is the first modern FF, because not only did it move the series forward as far as gameplay, but it did so within the context of previous games. Playing the original 3 is fun because you start to see more and more how all the games since then have built off of what was already accomplished back then. And in a way III is the bridge between that, not only providing a basis for the later games, but in a sense being the first one of them, to try to go back and recapture that intangible essence that makes Final Fantasy.