Even if you give a book a new cover that doesn't mean the reading experience is any better or worse than it already was.
STORYLINE:
Hey, come on, it's an Final Fantasy RPG. OF COURSE it was good. It's had the typical old-school FF style, a group of typical underdog characters unravil a great mystery and save the world while doing it, all with that beatuiful artsy and heart warming feel. It's top notch stuff, which is why the FF serise still remains a big name in the RPG world.
I won't give it all away, as that would kind of ruin the point in play this one to begin with, but I can tell you how it begins with this white hair dude name Luneth (or whatever else you want to rename him) falling down a hole in the ground into a mysterious cave. Of course Luneth, being trapped and discovering monsters in the cave, begins to search for a way out. He winds up in a strange room with a gaint turtle living in it. Of course he (you) kill this turtle and soon after you do a voice in Luneth's head starts proclaiming him "a choosen one" and Luneth looks around to discover that the scource of the voice is a giant floating crystal. Anyway the crystal starts reciting cryptic revalation that the darkness is coming and the world is going to end unless Luneth seeks out the other warriors of light and simplely teleports him back to the surface...still utterly confused. As soon as he gets back home the elder talks to Luneth and tells him to seek out the other warriors as well. Needless to say, that does really help him much until he trys to talk with other townfolk about and discovers his freind Arc as does something stupid and dangerous to prove that he's not a coward. So off Luneth goes to help Arc before he gets himself hurt, thus starting a chain of events that leads him toward the goal the crystal had sent him on.
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay is really simple to figure out altough it does take a while before all the combat options are available to you. It early linear RPG stuff; kill enemys and gain experience, gain experience and level up your character thus improveing the stats. The stats adjust themselves automaticly so there is next to no cutomization other than changing equipment and your "job class" and even then changing job classes don't effect your over all stats perimantly, so while you may be able to gain levels and change classes your character is basically unmoldable because as soon as you shift classes again your character will be built as if you had never used a different class. The only purpose for stay any class at all is to gain job levels to unlock some moves and occationaly another job class. It may sound complicated when explained via typing, but it's actually very plain, VERY simple, and a slow points in the story, somewhat boring over time.
GRAPHICS:
Downright wonderful, considering it when from a pixialted Japanese game to a new age DS game. If anything, the graphics is Final Fantasy 3's selling point. The even have CG cutscenes in there to spice things up.
SOUND:
Also wonderful, but you probably already guessed that. Most final fantasy games usually get strait A's on everything reguarding presentation reguardless on how the game actually plays.