Seventeen years ago I was 12. I had just gotten my first SNES (mom brought it home as a gift for getting stellar grades) and was learning Mario World and getting used to A Link to the Past's graphics (had trouble differentiating between where I could jump down and what I couldn't climb up). I didn't know what an RPG was until 4 years later when Chrono Trigger was released. As such, I never bothered to go back and play FF4 on emulator and decided to try the DS remake of FF4 having never played before.

The storyline in this game is so good thus far (I'm at the part where I'm to retrieve the earth crystal). The bard's voice acting is a little over done, but I thought the rest weren't bad at all compared to some other games... I died on the boss just before this part 3 times before finally getting past him and being unable to buy ether is quite challenging, but I like it.

I would say the game deserves a 8/10 just for the amount of extra work they put into this instead of making it play exactly like the US version (of which I watched a speed run for up to my part).

I agree with the waiting till a game is complete. After all, how do you review something that isn't final yet? Game reviewers (the good and reputable ones) should be given a copy of the game to play and write a review at least say a week ahead of time and write their review based on at least 1/3 of the game because, as we all know, some games start out slow (Secret of Mana/Evermore anyone?).