[News] FFIV Sequel... yes for cell phones :/

Final Fantasy IV THE AFTER - Return to the Moon (ファイナルファンタジーIV ジ　アフター: 月の帰還)
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So the game takes place an unspecified time after FFIV, with the main character being Theodore, a descendant of Cecil (and I'd assume Rosa). It will be an RPG, but there's no actual gameplay info yet. Obviously returning to the moon (which left the world's orbit at the end of FFIV with FuSuYa and Golbez on board) will be a major plot point.

I don't know what to feel right now! It's a sequel to FFIV, so I should be happy, but it's on mobile phones. This is like one of those situations where a genie gives you a wish, but you ask for it in slightly the wrong way and you end up with a solid gold head or something.

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I think there are very few people on these boards who hate FFIV for any reason. We're all roughly the same age group, we all have the love for the old stuff, It's personally my favorite FF ever, but this announcement is kinda lukewarm.

Square is probably just trying to cash in on the new FFIV DS remake, but I'm at least glad the game isn't a *direct* sequel. I mean, it's not like it could have been, but at least this way the story won't really be "messed up", just expanded upon in a way I don't think anyone really asked for. The original FFIV won't really be affected by it at all unless Square tacks on some ending to the remake to tie the games together or something (think Chrono Trigger PSX - Square, don't get any ideas!). Even If the game is totally bad, you can just choose to ignore it; us Westerners may not have any other choice. Like was said, there's a market for this sorta thing in Japan, and, for better or worse, this is a Japanese game for Japanese gamers.

Of course, I don't *know* the game will be terrible, just going by every other cell phone game I've bought, RPGs included. Prove me wrong, Squeenix, prove me wrong!

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Originally Posted by mortis

Is it me or am I seeing 1.) reused graphics (hence the title of the link you gave us) and 2) Cid?

Woah, that's Cecil, Rosa, AND Cid in the second pic. You can also see Theodore at the bottom of the first one; the top guy is simply "Nazo no Otoko" or "Mystery Man". So it really *is* a direct sequel... Unless of course the second screen is a flash-back or something.

FFIV: The Next Generation.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by a lurker

Probably on the monsters, I'd have to compare it to the last 2d FF4 remake to know for sure. Which one was that?

FFIV Advance was the last 2D remake.

Originally Posted by Zuare

Is that Amano artwork new, or from the original?

It Looks new to me. That must be Theo at the bottom there, which means he's Cecil and Rosa's *son*, not some distant descendant, which also means the game itself takes place only a few years after FFIV. I wasn't expecting Square to go this deep with a cell phone game, but it looks like this is the real deal FFIV-2.

...And is anyone else getting an "RPG Maker" vibe off these pics?

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Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Unless you mean for FFIV by itself, in which case never mind.

Yeah, just referring to FFIV. Lurker wanted to know if the graphics were from that or the original, but I can't really tell from these pics.

As for the new art, it's actually pretty good (old grizzled Cid in particular), but I still can't get over why this is happening. Why now? Why not 2 years ago when FFIV advance came out? Or seven years ago with FF Chronicles? I think Square just got bitten by the money bug again and decided to make yet another FF its own franchise.

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