For people who disliked the G-Cube version of CC, get ready to love/hate the DS version...
You first play as Yuri, twin of Chelinka, in his younger years. And gradually work your way up until you form a party of four, consisting of the four races; Selkie, Liltie, Yuke, and Clavat which players of the original CC should recognize.
The game play is similar to the G-cube version, in which you fight monsters to collect materials to make stronger weapons and armor, MINUS lugging around a stupid chalice.
The characters are love able and pretty well balanced. Each of their talents are used pretty equally throughout the game, although sometimes, they aren't of any use and continue to die during battles, but what do you expect from a computer program?
Good-
One of the pleasant surprises was that, when you equip your character, the graphics actually change!(And the characters are in FF III-chibi style.)
Another was the voice acting which just added to the already dramatic storyline.
Yet another were the boss battles. Some games, you just want to get the heck away due to the length of the battle,( sometimes, I suspect that the match might be rigged >_>)despite great graphics. In FFCC Ring of Fates, you'll actually want to face them again because the boss battles are... fun!
Bad-
I didn't want to head this "Too short" but, in truth, it is. This game took me a total of 13 hours and 26 minutes(three days) to complete. Unfortunately, it doesn't have WIFI and I have yet to find someone who owns it. A great game, but I'm glad I rented it instead of buying it O.o