With a little bit more than a month left before the game's release, the IGN DS team takes an early peek at the latest re-release offering from Square Enix. While this is the third time they're re-releasing the game, the IGN DS team feels that the upgraded visuals and voice-overs do justice to the original game. However, they don't provide any major gripes they have experienced so far. Read the full article to see how the game's shaping up.

We're now on our second leg of Final Fantasy remakes, as Square Enix continues to take the original classic role playing games – the ones that never made it to the US originally, or arrived only in edited form – and give them a DS boost. Final Fantasy III was a worthy rebirth, but with minimal changes and some odd use of the DS overall it was far from greatness, despite still having a pretty engaging core. With Final Fantasy IV, however, it's apparent even in the game's opening hours that DS fans will have in their hands something special this time around. We're taking a trip down memory lane, and it's a wonderful feeling.

Final Fantasy IV is what many consider to be one of the first true FF titles to really deliver on the "wow" factor. There's no denying the shock and awe that came with the original games, and we're not out to start a Final Fantasy debate (those never have winners anyways), but when you think back to the SNES era and storytelling greatness, it's often the trilogy of IV, V, and VI that really set themselves apart. We'd of course throw a little Chrono Trigger in there as well, but unfortunately that isn't remade and in our hands right now…

McClubbin via ds.ign.com »