GameTrailers posted this nice preview of Final Fantasy IV DS sometime yesterday. I have to admit I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long time now. As you may know, Final Fantasy IV DS is a full remake of the original and I have to agree with this preview in saying that I don’t even consider this a port. It really does look, sound and feel like a brand new game. After the jump, you can view a side-by-side comparison of Final Fantasy IV DS and the one from the GameBoy Advance. The differences are staggering. Anyways, I’m off to play it now. Remember to make the jump for a glimpse of the aforementioned comparison, the opening cinematic and a few other videos. Enjoy!

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I wasn’t going to start back up with my writing quite yet, but this got me all excited! Well, sort of. Square-Enix have announced that Chrono Trigger is coming to the DS. When I saw that subject line in my inbox, the first thing I thought was a Final Fantasy III/IV style remake. Alas, I was wrong. It is just a port that supports dual screens. It seems that the only new addtion(s) to the game will be a “brand new dungeon and a Wireless Play mode.” I have no clue what the Wireless Play mode will do, but it will be interesting (I hope) to see what it turns out to be. Anyways, I love this game, but chances are very good I won’t buy it and just continue to whip out my old SNES cart or PS1 version of it whenever I want to play.

So there you have it. Will you buy it when it becomes available this holiday season? I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who has never played it before or doesn’t already have a copy of it. This classic, at least in my mind, can still give a lot of the RPGs of this generation a good run for their money.

By the way, in case you want all the dirty details, make the jump. Otherwise, take a trip to the Chrono Trigger DS website to stare at a clock (which really does tell the time) and some rotating gears. It’s a damn shame the legal team at Square-Enix put a stop to the Chrono Trigger Resurrection project….

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We got a serious video game tattoo fan here today folks! She’s got not 1,2,3 but 4 game related tattoos! I’ll let her do the explaining…

The first one is the heart from Kingdom Hearts II, then I got Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, my third one was the spiritual stones from Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and my newest is a mandragora from Final Fantasy XI

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I’ve seen a few Heartless tattoos based on the Kingdom Hearts games, but I think this is the first Sora. Nice work!

[Thanks Chris!]