[DS] Final Fantasy IV 3D DS

Completely uninterested. My emulator runs the game just fine, and the game is more than adequate in it's spritely form. Especially since I've seen what happens when they try to turn Yoshitaka Amano's artwork into 3D. Those tacked-on cutscenes from the FF6 port on the PS1 were... not good.

The sample screenshot pretty well confirms those fears. They're going with that intensely creepy psuedo-SD style from Romancing Saga, which is just going to ruin the whole thing. But I guess Square has realized that people'll buy pretty much anything as long as it's shiny and called Final Fantasy.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Good grief, those super deformed characters look really silly. It was ugly and vaguely creepy in Romancing Saga, and it's not working here. Cutesy marionettes do not lend themselves well to serious storytelling.

The idea of an expanded remake sounds intriguing, and it'd be nice to see some of the obvious dangling plot threads resolved. But man, the visual style is seriously off-putting. I just can't take the romance sub-plot seriously if Cecil and Rosa look like Precious Moments figurines.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Hindman

Now see, if the whole game looked like that, I'd be happy. Granted it's only the DS, but if Squeenix came out of nowhere and did a really good 2D conversion in the same vein as Odin Sphere and Grim Grimoire, I think I'd die on the spot. Snowballs in Hell, I know, but a man can dream.

I'm reflecting on how silly Golbez looked during that short bit at the end of the original game when they made a player sprite out of him. The graphical limitations of the SNES sort of let you handwave the fact that Golbez was inexplicably 20 feet tall when you fought him, but it's going to look strange with everything being more detailed and 3D - or ridiculous if you're still fighting cutesy chibi Golbez.

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

Originally Posted by Gechmir

One gripe though -- they're sticking with the "newer" Moogle design. There was a moogle for some reason that I talked to en route to Cecil's bedroom (for the Cecil-Rosa cutscene), and it had the long stupid rabbit-ears. Why did they drop the old design? Whenever I think of a moogle, I imagine the ones that I saw in, like, FFVI and stuff.

Buh? There weren't ever any moogles in FF4. I guess if they're just gratuitously adding them in, they can look like whatever Squeenix wants, I suppose.

Which gives me misgivings about the game, if they're going above and beyond just doing a modernized remake.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Gah, you had to mention the frigging EvilWall. I think that's the boss where I'd come full stop and grind for a while until Rydia learned Virus, just so I'd have enough firepower to kill it in time.

I was speaking idiomatically.