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Final Fantasy III

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Critic score9 critics
First release
Aug 24, 2006
Publisher
Square Enix
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Adventure · Open world, Action, Fantasy
Platforms
Nintendo DS

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 time. The graphics are rendered in full 3D and various changes have been implemented.

Also known as Final Fantasy 3, FINAL FANTASY III, Final Fantasy III DS, Final Fantasy III (3D Remake)

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Storyline, release dates, time to beat, age ratings, modes, links, keywords

Storyline
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 in their quest, and restored harmony to the world. But their victory came too late to save the doomed civilization, whose culture was reduced to ruin, though their floating continent remained. On that continent, the circle of Gulgans, a race of blind soothsayers and fortune-tellers, predicted that these events will ultimately repeat.Read more

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 in their quest, and restored harmony to the world. But their victory came too late to save the doomed civilization, whose culture was reduced to ruin, though their floating continent remained. On that continent, the circle of Gulgans, a race of blind soothsayers and fortune-tellers, predicted that these events will ultimately repeat.

Release dates
Nintendo DS
Aug 24, 2006
Nintendo DS
Nov 14, 2006
Nintendo DS
Apr 05, 2007
All 4 release dates
Nintendo DS
May 04, 2007
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main + Extras
40h
Game modes
Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
Third person
Keywords
magic, grinding, turn-based, death, hand-to-hand combat
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At a Glance

Critic Score
64
Main + Extras (IGDB)
40h

How it plays

Languages

  • Englishinterface
  • Deutschinterface
IGDB · recorded 26 Oct 2026
Also in 8 other languages

Language data: IGDB · recorded 26 Oct 2026