Four Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden

[Demon_Skeith]

Square Enix's totally mysterious teaser site has revealed -- surprise! -- Four Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden, only a few days after Jump revealed it. The site offers a bit more detail about the game than we knew -- most importantly, it confirms that the Four Warriors of Light, described as a "newly retold classic," is designed for play by up to four people.

Like the last couple of Final Fantasy remakes on DS, Four Warriors of Light is being developed by Matrix Software. It features a new implementation of the standard Final Fantasy "job system," called the Crown System, which lets players switch jobs whenever desired. That sounds like the Dress Sphere system from the maligned Final Fantasy X-2.

A statement from producer Tomoya Asano on the site, as translated by Andriasang, indicates the team's hope to deliver a game with "the charms of the classic RPG era before RPGs became JRPGs."

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sounds meh right now. they need to say more about this game.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

update:

Square Enix's latest gaming countdown ended earlier this week with the unveiling of Four Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden. That unveiling came with relatively little information about the game, but thanks to this week's Famitsu we've got a few more precious details.

As previously revealed, you play as Brand, a character who's just come of age and heads off to the castle to meet the king. There, he learns that the king's daughter has been kidnapped by the Witch of the North, and he's tasked with saving her.

Famitsu reveals that Brand's big birthday is his 14th one, meaning the cast of FF Gaiden will likely be young all around.

Going further in depth on the story, the magazine also got commentary from director Takashi Tokita, who said that the game's theme is about the travels of an adventure. He also said to expect dragons (which shouldn't come as a surprise given the huge dragon at the official site) and crystals to play a major part in the story.

The magazine scored a few additional details on the gameplay side of things. The game makes use of a turn-based battle system, requiring that players simply select a command with the stylus (it's unclear if the game is exclusively stylus-based). Regarding the game's Crown System, said to resemble the FF series' Job System, this allows you to set abilities with your characters, which then appear as panels in a command panel area of the bottom screen. To execute cure and other spells, you simply touch one of these panels.

The overall goal for the game appears to be to fuse classic RPG gaming with the more modern tech offered by the DS. AS one would expect of a classic RPG experience, this means random battles, so if you prefer seeing your enemies in advance, you're out of luck.

Missing from the Famitsu story, despite four full pages of coverage, is any mention of the game's multiplayer support. Square Enix has confirmed that the game will offer Wireless Play support for up to four players, but hasn't specified how this will be used.

All should be cleared up soon, however, as Four Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden is due out this Fall.

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[GracefulAssassin]

Seems interesting.