Final Fantasy III DS

[Archibaldo]

Is it possible to cast Cure on all party members when in battle or only out of battle?

[gdorf]

Both. If you are in battle repeatedly hit -> on the d-pad to select your entire party. If you are using the stylus, drag a box around your party.

[Gerudo]

honestly, i just keptLuneth as a Freelancer, and he does the most damage out of all my chars. Arc, my black mage, does suprising physical damage dual welding an ice staff and a fire staff.

i'm ready to go to the tower of owen, but i think there might be stuff i dont have. :/

[MottZilla]

-Graphics are a little underwhelming. I can't tell if it's so much of a hardware issue or what. I realize it's basically N64 hardware, so I don't fault it for that. But textures seem incredibly pixelated. When you zoom in especially, it looks like they almost use 2d sprites for a lot of stuff (think trees in Mario Kart 64) and when you do a zoom on those they get SUPER pixelated. The main character (first one you get) also has like a retarded grin on his face all the time when they show him up close. He looks kind of stupid

The Nintendo DS shares no relation to the N64 at all. The N64 actually was not very good at handling textures. It wasn't until late that Nintendo released the microcode tools to developers to get more out of the system. That's why Perfect Dark looks so much better than Goldeneye, not just the extra RAM from the expansion pack. The N64 stretched and blurred textures alot. The DS offers much more crisp renderings and seems to be more on par with PS1. Again considering it's the DS, and such a low resolution, don't expect much.

I'll try out FF3 pretty soon.

[Warlock]

The Nintendo DS shares no relation to the N64 at all. The N64 actually was not very good at handling textures. It wasn't until late that Nintendo released the microcode tools to developers to get more out of the system. That's why Perfect Dark looks so much better than Goldeneye, not just the extra RAM from the expansion pack. The N64 stretched and blurred textures alot. The DS offers much more crisp renderings and seems to be more on par with PS1. Again considering it's the DS, and such a low resolution, don't expect much.

I'll try out FF3 pretty soon.

I meant quality-wise, the hardware is just a small step above N64.

[MottZilla]

In some ways yes. In raw processing power, I've heard the N64 better than the DS. Afterall the N64 boasted a very nice 93mhz risc cpu. It actually can be made to run faster too. The main issues with the N64 were the slow cartridge bus, and the gpu's texture issues. The DS's issues... well I don't really think it has any, atleast not any that are like weaknesses that hold it back, the only thing holding it back is itself as a whole really.

[Archibaldo]

One more quick question about the game. Does moving your character to the rear do anything? I've tried it a few times with my casters and they still get attacked quite often. Also, is there a way to set it up so that there are some party members in the rear all the time with out having to use up one of your turn phases?

[Warlock]

One more quick question about the game. Does moving your character to the rear do anything? I've tried it a few times with my casters and they still get attacked quite often. Also, is there a way to set it up so that there are some party members in the rear all the time with out having to use up one of your turn phases?

Rear = half attack power, but half the damage from enemies. Spells and the Bow don't suffer the attack power problem though.

[Joshua Milton N]

Yeah I got this game and I haven't beaten it yet.

Man it's really awsome that they did this FF game in 3D.

With 2 characters in the front line dealling tons of damage and the other 2 characters in the rear to cast Magic and Summon Spells I have nothing to fear at all.