Final Fantasy IV: 20th Anniversary Edition


Developer(s): Square Enix, Matrix Software
Publisher(s): Square Enix
Release date: Japan December 20, 2007
Genre: Role-playing game
Game modes: Single player
Ratings: CERO:A All Ages
Platform(s): Nintendo DS

Final Fantasy IV is set to be released for the Nintendo DS as part of the Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary campaign. The game will be developed by Matrix Software, the same team responsible for the Final Fantasy III remake, and will be supervised by members of the original development team: Takashi Tokita will serve as executive producer, Tomoya Asano as producer, Hiroyuki Itō as battle designer. Animator Yoshinori Kanada will storyboard the new cutscenes.

According to executive producer Takashi Tokita (scenario writer of the original release), 3/4 of the original script had been cut from Super Famicom original release, but this lost material will be reworked into the remake, while some new events will also be added. The player will have the possibility to use the Nintendo DS stylus to move around similarly to the Final Fantasy III remake, while some minigames will require this usage of the stylus. Additionally, the developers are currently working on a feature which should add replayability to the game, although it will not necessarily be a New Game Plus feature.

More info
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_F..._IV#Nintendo_DS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy...8Nintendo_DS%29

No US, Canadian, or European release date has been set.

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS.

f*!@ YEAH I CAN'T WAIT.

I want this SOO Much, SE is really good at the remakes in my Opions.

Yeah considering all their new stuff is crap.

Remakes are the only thing I look forward to from them nowadays.

Square Enix hasn't been good since it existed, damn mergers. Though FFXII was pretty good everything else makes me sad. Maybe it'll be better if I get a 360 for those Mistwalker(founded Hironobu Sakaguchi(Largely responsible for FFI-VIII)) exclusives. We can only hope for the better cause Square Enix sucks thats why they are giving the remaking jobs to other companies like Matrix.

I still think Square is the Best to my Opion tho.

My Favorite Game is Kingdom Hearts, That is not Crap, its good,

Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy are the Beast Series they make, I like Square as they way they was, Not Square Enix, Square Soft i think was better, Cuz they made one of the best Mario game, Super Mario RPG, And the Orginal Final Fantasy They messed it up for America, when it came like First FF3 wasn't 3 In Japan it was like 4 or something like that, I got a Dvd that explain about all the Final Fantasy, came with Final Fantasy XII Collectors Edition. I also Like playing the International My Favorite is FFX INT, and FFVII INT.

I won't even play any FF games on the SNES the GBA ones are far superior The Nintendo Seal of Quality made FF on the SNES suck. Square Soft and Enix are best as separate.

Well to me Classics are the Best for FInal Fantasy, I dc About the Graphic the Story gets me, Like Final Fantasy VII for Example Not the best Grapic But a Touching Story, Kingdom Hearts Was a realy good to me, How Disney and Square together was good, So Kids and Adult can Play, Like Kids Play Cuz They like Disney, and They get to understand about Final Fantasy In there alitte by reading Jiminy's Journal, and Adults Like Final Fantasy,and the Must of Exciperic(srry about my Spelling) of Disney, So Its for Both Adults and Childrens Its a Perfect Choice, I Wouldn't Pick a Better way. =3

Actually, that was the piece of over rated crap I was mostly referring to. And the damn FFVII sequels.

Seriously kid. Go download some ROMs and play SaGa Frontier and Legend of Mana. Those were good Square games, back in the day. One game is told through 8 different characters, the other has some of the most amazing and creative character designs I've ever seen and three different main storylines, one of which that brought me to tears involving a dying race of jewel people...


And it wasn't when Square merged with Enix that it got bad. This is a myth. It was when Square begun to cease something called VARIETY and stuck to only FINAL FANTASY AND FINAL FANTASY SPIN OFFS that the company went to hell. (and personally, I think Enix was the one who got f*!@ed over the most in that deal. There's been what? 2 enix games since the merge? No wait there's that new one on the DS isn't there? Still, that Star Ocean one didn't seem to please the fanbase much...)

My loyalty lies with Namco now. What with the Tales of series, Soul Caliber and Katamari Damacy being some of my favorite games (also honorable mention to Tekken and Xenosaga...although Xenosaga was originally a square game, Namco did what wth it what they wouldn't) and they're handling their merge with Bandai well.




Anyways GUH. MY FRIEND IMPORTED FFIV. DAMN HER. SHE WAS TLAKING TO ME ONLINE AS SHE WAS PLAYING IT TOO.

"OMG KAIN."
"SHUT UP."
"OMG RYDIA."
"SHUT UP."
"OMG DID I SAY ALREADY THERE'S VOICE ACTING?"
"YES NOW SHUT UP."

grrrrrrrr....

6/10 of Square's(Co.) last games had ties to FF, but they weren't necessarily panned by critics/fans of their last games the most panned had no real ties to FF it was called Ultimate Saga. I think what ruined Square Enix was having too many multi-million selling properties and picking one over that other too much. Since Square Enix came to be there have been 29 FF based games(remakes included) not including Itadaki Street but their have only been 11 Dragon Quest games. I'll only stick to Square Enix when it comes to the main series and remakes if they ever remake FFVI I'll die of happiness. The Star Ocean remakes for PSP look good but if Tri-Ace doesn't make them then I won't give them the benefit of the doubt.

I know the Mana series originally spawned from Final Fantasy Adventure and there were referrences laid out through all the other games but...how is SaGA Frontier related to FF? I don't remember seeing any references at all.

Threads of Fate I don't recall any FF references from when I played either. I honestly didn't even believe it was Square at first. Also, been ages since I played some Brave Fencer Musashi (it's to the point where I'm assuming it was Square. I'm not 100% sure bad memories :B ) but I don't recall any specific FF references there either.

Then again, I can't remember the dates those games were made either. I think SaGa came out around the same time FFVII did? Far superior game too. SCREW CLOUD GIMME SOME ASELLUS NOW. >:{ I remember an ad for it in the FFVII booklet.


Dude, there's so going to be an FFVI remake. Ya just know it. VI is probably the most popular of the older 6. Just because of Kefka.

I've played the gba remakes for FF 1 and 2 (dawn of souls) . Both of them were worse games than the originals. In the remakes, they made it too easy to level up and gave stat bonuses as well.
I'd rather play the nes final fantasy 1 anyday.

The 'nintendo seal of quality' helped produce 2 of the best final fantasy games of the entire series. Final Fantasy 6 and Final Fantasy 4j were exceptional games on the SNES. Both of them have something that's been lacking in video games these days...quality. From the reviews online, the remake of ff4 for the ds seems to stay true to the original SNES game. Remakes do serve a purpose, allowing younger gamers to join in on what everyone else has been enjoying for years. But Square Enix should instead consider making sequels or at least new rpg dynasties...

Where's my real sequel to chrono trigger? how about the lufia series? or even soul blazer...

/rant


Yep it was Square ... great game too

The English version of FF4 official translation sucks the J version I've never played but the SNES English official translation isn't close to being as good as the GBA translation. Ted Woolsey did good with VI.

And I'm talking about SNES not NES.

I'm trying to look for it again. Watching a clip of that last 'fight' against Topo made me want to play again. Poor thing, danced till her legs broke. Hoping to find a ROM, because it's impossible to find older games up here. I searched for Legend of Mana for 6 years after the rental place got rid of it. Eventually had to cave in and just get a ROM from my friend.

I feel sorry for kids these days. Games nowadays lack in quality and story. The only area they beat out the games of yesteryear in is graphics. >>



Anyways about the FFIV remake, I hear that the scene with Rydia and her dead mother is even more heart breaking in the remake because since it's voice acting you can hear her sobbing and "Okaa-san...no....dragon...." Poor Rydia.


Btw anyone hear about the IV cellphone game they're going to do? Wow, milking, that's totally not new from you Square :B


.............I still say Cecil sounds faggier than he should've been. (Seriously, am I the only one who saw the image of him and his Dark Knight armor and DIDN'T picture a whimpy voice despite how emo he got?)

my comment about the failings of NES remakes were to illustrate that square enix can make bad remakes. Just because the graphics are nice and shiny doesn't mean their other modifications to the game dynamics were desirable.

If you've never played the snes version of ff4j then how can you say that the gba games are 'far superior'? Even the North American port of final fantasy 4 wasn't really *that* bad. The major difference in my opinion over final fantasy 4 and final fantasy 4j was the level of difficulty. The original was significantly harder.

"You spoony bastard" is a classic line XD....The dialogue wasn't bad, especially if you didn't know otherwise that square decided not to take the translation of the game for english speaking audiences seriously. It's still a damn good game.

@Fushi, go make a brave fencer musashi thread XD .. I have my original disc somewhere....but my ps2 is at my brother's house.

I explicitly said Nintendo Seal of Quality and Nintendo Seal of Quality was only for European and US releases of games not Japan so I can say that FFIV for the GBA was better then the SNES translation and only mean the US translation not the Japanese script.

Actually you didn't explicitly say that before....Now you have. I didn't realize the nintendo seal of quality was unique to the US/Europe.

Even still, FF6 on the snes was a perfect game even with the Nintendo Seal of quality while it's gba port had slowdowns during some of the summons.

Perhaps I'm just looking at these snes games with rose colored glasses, but I recommend to others to try these games out on an emulator or an original snes.