Final Fantasy Megathread

[Retro Doomer]

I maybe be plain but I do appreciate Tifa quite allot because come one its Tifa do I have to explain why

But Aerith is also good

I am a Esteemed Gentleman after all.

 

[Deleted member 856878]

Final Fantasy IV: the After Years

Following its successful release as a Japanese mobile game the direct sequel to the 1991 SNES game Final Fantasy IV has been available in the WiiWare shop since the beginning of June. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years takes place several years after the end of the original game. Happily married Cecil and Rosa rule the fortress city of Baron and Porom and Palom have matured into adult mages and Dragoon Kain is still presumed missing. The idyll is shattered when a second moon rises over the fantasy world and swarms of monsters ravage the land. Now all hope rests on Cecil's son Ceodore who is currently completing his final exams as a member of the Redwing Knights.

The Developers of Matrix Software have playfully expanded the familiar Final Fantasy recipe of random battles, dungeon exploration and overworld travel by two ingredients. Firstly the phases of the moon influence your party's combat strength, weakening physical attacks, for example and strengthening black magic. Secondly you can combine several characters during turn based battles for particularly powerful band combo attacks in the Chrono Trigger style. The presentation is also traditional and carefully improved apart from the smoother font and a slightly improved resolution. The After Years stays visually close to its predecessor. Witty ideas in the staging of the story a clever dungeon design that fits seamlessly into the maps of the original game and in some cases expands on them as well as the reunion with the aging heroes of FF IV you will have RPG veterans smiling blissfully as they travel back in time. The only drawback for 800 points you only get the prologue and Cecil and Kain's story to download. Anyone who wants to see everything will have to purchase the remaining characters chapters released successively until September for 300 points each and finally the grand finale for 800 points. At a total of €37 it's not exactly a cheap fun!

My Opinion
This game is a Retro-style role-playing sequel especially for fans and lover's of the SNES original. It's not perfect of course but worth a look.

Game:​	Final Fantasy IV: The After Years​
Publisher:​	Square Enix​
Developer:​	Matrix​
Genre:​	Role play​
Available for:​	Wii​
FAITH:​	6​
Published in:​	8 / 2009​

 

[MasterEn]

you can have your opinion, but this game is mediocre at best and terrible at worst for me.
the original game is far superior to this, sequel.

 

[UnDubious]

I borrowed a friend's Wii at the time just to buy and beat this game. Even though it's nice at first to revisit a familiar world, it ended up being just okay (at best), with lots of repetition and redundant material. There's this little cave dungeon you have to walk through like 5 times, it's ridiculous. And then for no reason at all the final dungeon is longer than the rest of the game. I couldn't believe how it just went on and on and on for all these hours. Weird game, definitely an unnecessary sequel.

 

[beowulf848]

I've heard nothing but not so great things about this game. Never played it myself, but I've read about the story and wasn't impressed.

 

[Tonberry]

I remember being intrigued by this when it came to Wii, but didn't play it until the PSP version, and I thought it sucked. It kind of felt like that "and everyone grew up and married each other!" type of shlocky fan-fiction that permeated the internet in the mid 2000s.

Also, what's with the "faith" score thing in the graph, is this like copied from a christian game review site or something?

 

[TamagotchiHero24's icon TamagotchiHero24 TamagotchiHero24]

It’s such a strange project. It could have been cool to get a new game in the same universe, showing new stories with beloved characters, but instead the game essentially was Square taking the “retro nostalgia” trend that the Wii and 360 brought over to the west. I don’t know why it was so big on phones, my guess is that it was a big name RPG on mobile at a time where there weren’t a ton of options and the Japanese mobile market was booming, but I know why it was so exciting over here. And, instead of being a Mega Man 9, it ended up being a Sonic 4 Episode 1.

And that’s not to call it awful beyond all compare, but it’s the kind of game that doesn’t have its own voice. It’s easy to forget outside of how disliked it is.

 

[Deleted member 856878]

I remember being intrigued by this when it came to Wii, but didn't play it until the PSP version, and I thought it sucked. It kind of felt like that "and everyone grew up and married each other!" type of shlocky fan-fiction that permeated the internet in the mid 2000s.

Also, what's with the "faith" score thing in the graph, is this like copied from a christian game review site or something?

Maybe this will help you https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/06/17/final-fantasy-iv-the-after-years-review

 

[Deleted member 169402]

The worst Final Fantasy ever. Even if count it as a sequel.

 

[Tonberry]

Maybe this will help you https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/06/17/final-fantasy-iv-the-after-years-review

I don't really understand what you're implying with that link, but I was curious if this was your own words or not because it's written like this was a recent release with stuff like the "has been available in the WiiWare shop since the beginning of June" part etc.

 

[Deleted member 856878]

I don't really understand what you're implying with that link, but I was curious if this was your own words or not because it's written like this was a recent release with stuff like the "has been available in the WiiWare shop since the beginning of June" part etc.

Oh, I thought you wanted a proper article about this game. Yes I wrote it myself or I tried but from what I can see not many people here seem to like this game.

 

[Lena CE]

I first tried this game, and the Zodiac version is the only way I'm interested in doing it again. First time I gave it a chance, despite not being into the mechanics and premise, and got up to the Rogue Tomato before I got mad I couldn't beat the T-Rex and I quit. On top of that, we had to play as this loser Vaan, while his sexy ahh bro dies right away. Some bullshit.

If it turned into an MMO through internet capabilies or linkup, then I'd have been more interested. I just didn't like how it was set up like an MMO, but not an MMO. From any other company, it would be acceptable, but for a franchise that has had several multiplayer main entries throughout the series, it was kind of a slap in the face.

I love Vaan tbh, he's the perfect protag for that type of story and works with the themes rly well. Playing as anyone else would have been fine, but losing Vaan as the main character would be a negative imo.

 

[Bakuma1997]

The PSP includes both this and an interlude that connects both stories, never went past chapter 3 since it was just a drag and the plot felt fanficty

 

[χKai]

I love Vaan tbh, he's the perfect protag for that type of story and works with the themes rly well. Playing as anyone else would have been fine, but losing Vaan as the main character would be a negative imo.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

you can have your opinion, but this game is mediocre at best and terrible at worst for me.
the original game is far superior to this, sequel.

i just looked at it like a bonus thing or a fan game. It's not really something that can be played directly following FFIV, more like something you check out maybe 20 years later when you only have a vague memory and were changed from games made by Square Enix more recently at that point. It feels different storywise even emotionally. Not as satisfying. NOPE.

 

[Netra]

I never end the FF*IV, the first dungeon in the moon broke my patience limit, one pixel and fight, kill a lot of mobs, move one pixel forward and another fight, more than 50 minutes to enter in the last hall before the boss.
I play the after years and it feels the same but bland, I just drop the game in one or two hours of playing.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Oh! I misunderstood I thought everyone was ragging on FF IV itself for a moment there Yeah, nah. I haven't played the After Years.

 

[Lena CE]

Understanding Vaan: a story of forgiveness and purpose is a wonderful piece by Dreamboum about why Vaan's perspective and place within the story is crucial to the game. After roughly 2 decades of discourse I'm definitely on his side when he says he doesn't care to try and change anyone's mind on him, but I'm glad that he so eloquently explains why I love that character better than I ever could. It includes spoilers of course, so read at your own risk if you haven't played and are interested.

FFXII is a wonderful game in a way that only a game touched by Yasumi Matsuno could be. He grounds his worlds and narratives in such a way that it really highlights the humanity of it all in ways more realistic than most RPGs ever try to.

 

[Rox00]

Having only heard stories about how the After Years was and reading the kind of story it has, it really doesn't sound that interesting and especially as a continuation of FF IV.

 

[Zooey]

FFIV is my favorite. I think the PSP version is the best way to play it. But as far as the After Years goes, its not that great, and its something id only really suggest if you just want more FFIV, then its kind of just okay to play it and keep yourself in that world for even longer, might not be as good, but its something at least.

 

[reakain]

i thought i would upload some pics from my latest art project.
i took a used copy of final fantasy: the spirits within; scrapped the cover, made my own and put both games from final fantasy chronicles in it.

I love this! It reminded me of the blu-ray version of ff legend of the crystals that I put together in a big physical media push I did. Does anyone else remember that OVA for FF5? I used to rent the vhs tapes from the local hollywood video when I was younger. It's not good, but nostalgia means I gave it maybe too much attention. I made a whole handbound art booklet for it and everything.

 

[Lena CE]

I keep forgetting that OVA existed, had no idea it took place after FFV! Super neat, rly gotta get to watching it sometime c:

 

[MasterEn]

I love this! It reminded me of the blu-ray version of ff legend of the crystals that I put together in a big physical media push I did. Does anyone else remember that OVA for FF5? I used to rent the vhs tapes from the local hollywood video when I was younger. It's not good, but nostalgia means I gave it maybe too much attention. I made a whole handbound art booklet for it and everything.

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i found the ova on the internet archive, along with a big ass collection of final fantasy stuff over there.
it has books, magazines, games, artbooks and more.

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I keep forgetting that OVA existed, had no idea it took place after FFV! Super neat, rly gotta get to watching it sometime c:

yeah, i looked it up on wikipedia, and the ova takes place about 100 years after the game ends.
the internet archive has the whole set of ovas and much more over there as well.

 

[reakain]

I keep forgetting that OVA existed, had no idea it took place after FFV! Super neat, rly gotta get to watching it sometime c:

Yeah! It's like.... 500 years after FFV? I think? It's some huuuuuge time jump, and given how kinda absurd it is, it's hard to really align it back as being part of one of the mainline games hahaha, but I love the terrible pink chocobo design from it, and it's just so goofy

i found the ova on the internet archive, along with a big ass collection of final fantasy stuff over there.
it has books, magazines, games, artbooks and more.

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yeah, i looked it up on wikipedia, and the ova takes place about 100 years after the game ends.
the internet archive has the whole set of ovas and much more over there as well.

Yeesssss!! I did a deep dive to find art for the art book I made, but I was ecstatic about how nice the version of it on the internet archive is, considering it was only ever vhs, and also so old.

 

[Deleted member 881671]

Well, the game isn't very well done and far too expensive for what it delivers.