“Horn, the Home of the Wind (Night)” by Naoshi Mizuta. I featured the amazing daytime version of this Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light song about a year ago; here’s its evening counterpart! It’s more laid back but splendid nonetheless.
Some fanart that’s just as great as the official art:
[Update: Oops, I accidentally misread Amazon’s offer to give $15 gift cards for trade-ins as $15 game credits with purchases. Big difference, there!]
Launch trailer for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. It’s October 5th already? But I’ve barely cracked Etrian Odyssey III! Well, everyone says the game is rubbish anyway, so maybe it’s for the best I ignore this release.
What’s that? 1UP/Jeremy Parish gave it high marks and called it “entertaining and unique, combining a streamlined interface with a daunting challenge level”? Damnit, I might have to look into this then.
Play shopkeeper in Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. While it doesn’t have the depth of item shop RPG Recettear or the charm of Taloon’s chapter in Dragon Quest IV, The 4 Heroes of Light has a minigame in which you can take over an item store’s counter for a day to sell all the extra junk in your inventory at a price you set.
GameStop’s preorder poster bonus with copies of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (click for a larger version).
If you like The 4 Heroes of Light’s U.S. boxart enough to hang it up, here you go! Though very first-run copy also includes another poster, which isn’t as attractive but should appeal to fans of the RPG’s chibi character designs.
Of course, Amazon also has its own great preorder incentive for The 4 Heroes of Light: a $10 game credit.
Real talk: what are you going to even do with a poster for this game? Probably the same thing you did with that Dragon Quest IX poster you got at the GameStop/Best Buy events (or the Etrian Odyssey III poster you’re going to get next month): either roll it up and put it in your closet, or leave the damn thing lying around so you can accidentally step on it one day and feel terrible about it.
North American boxart for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light compared with the throwback RPG’s European and Japanese covers. What a difference a splash of blue makes!
I really I hope I’m not burnt out on turn-based JRPGs by the time this rolls around. I’ve already put 70+ hours into Dragon Quest IX, and Etrian Odyssey III is coming up…
World exploration video for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. While is supposed to be a showcase of the game’s lovely settings and visual style, I can’t get over this music!
JC and I decided yesterday that we now consider ourselves on “Team Dragon Quest”, turning our backs to the affections of the Final Fantasy series, but The 4 Heroes of Light definitely has DQIX beat as far as soundtracks go.
I caught myself bobbing my head to this song, replaying the clip several times over just to hear the music again and looking around to see if anyone would be so kind as to spit a hot verse to the beat.
Crown System trailer for Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light. I know most of you JRPG fans are already busy figuring out the intricacies of Dragon Quest IX’s class system (e.g. weapon specialties, transferable skills), but if you can take a moment to consider what you’ll be playing three months from now, this video explains how you’ll be switching hats to change jobs in the next Final Fantasy DS game.
“Crowns enable you to take on different jobs. Tired of being a White Mage? Then simply switch to another crown and presto, you become a Bandit, or Paladin, or Alchemist! Each job grants unique abilities that you can set up in the Abilities menu and use in battle.
You must set up crown abilities and magic book spells with the Abilities menu if you want to use them in battle. First select an empty ability panel and then choose the spell or ability you wish to set up. To replace a spell or ability, simply select the spell or ability you want to replace and then choose a new one to put in that panel. To delete a spell or ability, select a blank panel as the replacement.
You can change crowns whenever you like. When you do, the abilities and spells that you had previously set up will all be removed, so don’t forget to reconfigure them in the Abilities menu.”
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light U.S. trailer. ::sigh:: Another four-player co-op RPG from Square Enix that I’ll only be able to enjoy in single player!
Anyway! This shiz look hotttttttt.
Also, Square Enix announced Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded for DS — developed by 358/2 Days studio h.a.n.d. — this morning, which I’m trying hard to care about but failing.
The 4 Heroes of Light traveling around Horun by Kanata. I love Akihiko Yoshida’s artwork for the game (and for any project, really), but this is a cute depiction of the characters, too. Amazon’s preorders for the game’s North American release are now open, by the way!
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light hits North America on October 5th (and Europe some time in Autumn)! Square Enix released these screenshots with the announcement, and it looks fantastic — which I suppose we already knew from all the videos/images that came out in Japan leading up to its release there last year.
As we’ve covered before, despite its 3D, Animal Crossing-style presentation, this is a throwback RPG promising “a classic story of four young heroes embarking on an unforgettable adventure; a tale of dragons, kings, princesses and witches.” The game will feature more than 20 classes (e.g. Black Mage, White Mage, Ranger), an inventive “Crown System”, and local multiplayer support for up to four players.
The only details about this that I can complain about are the usual trivial items: they dropped “Gaiden” from the Japanese Final Fantasy Gaiden title, and the logo on this Western boxart looks butt-ass (compare to JP cover):
Dragon Quest IX! 4 Heroes Of Light! So much JRPG fun to look forward to from Square Enix!
[Update: I guess I should also mention Nintendo Powerrevealed that the latest Etrian Odyssey game is headed to the States as Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City]
Square Enix registered a trademark for The 4 Heroes of Light, likely the localized name for Final Fantasy Gaiden, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week, which means the publisher has at least considered bringing the chibi, throwback RPG to North America.
Did you already forget why we’d be so excited to see this released here? Here’s some fantastic music, video clips, and packaging art to jog your memory! My hope is we’ll hear about Final Fantasy Gaiden’s late 2010 release for the States when E3 rolls around this June.
Four Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden wallpaper. I never bothered to go look for wallpapers for this streamlined DS RPG, which is out in Japan this week — it turns out there’s a decent selection!
This is the other Final Fantasy game I’m interested in. I just can’t get into XIII — at this point, the hype is loud enough to keep me away. Also it looks super busy. But this has intentionally simple visuals, chiptune-enhanced music, and gameplay systems that even I can kind of maybe understand.
