One of the only games in the Final Fantasy series that was a huge let down for me.
I remember turning on my DS and being blown away by the games opening and the graphics which are still pretty good. My first thoughts were that it would be a solid fun game but after some time of playing that thought didn't last long. Soon after reaching a little more than 8 hours into the game I began to find many annoyances with the game one being not able to save in dungeons.
The things in the game's mechanics that annoyed me is the previously stated lack of saves in a dungeon but that was only a small annoyance since difficulty is something I usually welcome. The magic system was one of my least favorite things about the game. Not only do you have to buy the spells which are annoyingly priced but you also have to take different mp levels into account. It was extremely annoying buying a good higher level magic only to find out you had about 3 mp for it. Now comes my biggest pet peeve with the game which was the incredibly frustratingly annoying primitive job system. If your like me with the job class system then you'll prefer magic classes. This game took the fun out of it for me by making your characters base stats directly tied with what class they are when they level up which meant that my magic based team would be severely hindered (something the other games would balance out such as FF5 and FFT.) when I decided to change their job to a more physical type one such as a knight not to mention the period in between job changes that you have to fight in order for your character to adjust to their class. I suppose I only have my self to blame for not seeing that sooner.
With the games mechanics aside the visuals for the game are really good for the DS. I found the opening scene to look incredible and couldn't believe I was watching it on my DS. The soundtrack was also great and I bow to Nobuo Uematsu for coming up with the original soundtrack to the game and I give a huge bow to Tsuyoshi Sekito and Keiji Kawamori for the excellent job they did when the soundtrack was rescored.
To sum it up this game was a disappointment to the series for me and goes along with Final Fantasies Crystal Chronicals, XI, and X-2 as steps in the wrong direction for the series. Truly a total let down and waste of technology.