Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy III is a remake and a complete overhaul of the 1990 version with the same title. This allowed western players to finally experience the classic Final Fantasy game localized for the very first…
Final Fantasy III is an adventure developed by Matrix Software, released 24 August 2006 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 40 hrs to finish.
What Final Fantasy III is
Final Fantasy III is an adventure game developed by Matrix Software and released in 2006. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
One thousand years before the events in the game, on a floating continent hovering high above the surface of an unnamed planet, a technologically advanced civilization sought to harness the power of the four elemental crystals of light. They did not realize that they could not control such fundamental forces of nature. This power of light would have consumed the world itself had the light crystals not had their natural counterparts: the four dark elemental crystals. Disturbed by the sudden interruption of the careful balance between light and dark, four warriors were granted the power of the dark crystals to recapture the power of the light crystals. These so-called Dark Warriors succeeded…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy III is the 81st of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy V Advance in 2006. Its critic score of 64 is 13 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Final Fantasy III holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 124 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 40 hrs.
What it launched against
Final Fantasy III launched on 24 August 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Dead Rising, Test Drive Unlimited and Call of Juarez. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Dead Rising, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Final Fantasy III yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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