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Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light battle system explained in video
Though the rest of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light may look quaint and simple, it seems the game's combat system is anything but. Check out the trailer after the jump for a brief dossier on action points, command rules, psyching up, group attacks and all the other minutiae of war.
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light's 3 bonus items
To help convince you to roll directly from Dragon Quest IX to another Square Enix DS RPG, Square Enix has partnered with retailers to offer pre-order bonuses for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, in addition to throwing a bonus item into first-run copies. Every copy of the game in the initial pressing will include a very cute poster of the characters emerging from a book. Pre-orders from GameStop will get you another poster, featuring the dragon image from the game's box art (also in our gallery). Finally, Amazon pre-orders will include something that isn't a poster, but is welcome nonetheless: a $10 credit on a future game purchase.%Gallery-100376%
Trailer shows off Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light ... cardio
Here's the first trailer for Square Enix's Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light, which appears to be some type of footracing game, in which four challengers jog across a vast landscape in a never-ending battle to see who can lose the most weight and become the lightest hero of all. Wait, what? It's a throwback RPG for the DS, and this trailer shows off the game's exploration? Ah, that makes more sense. Plus, it explains why the new screenshots below show off heroes' levels and stats on the top screen. Wait, unless HP and AP actually mean hamstring points and ab power? We're so confused. %Gallery-97634%
Wrap your head around Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light's 'Crown System'
This trailer for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light introduces the game's "Crown System," which allows characters to change classes by changing hats. Each job includes its own skills, which players can then drag into their customizable Abilities menu.
The 1 trailer of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
Square Enix released its E3 trailer for the new DS RPG Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, the back-to-basics Final Fantasy game developed by Matrix Software. Even with all the gameplay footage sequestered inside a tiny window in the middle of the video, the game's cute character designs and striking color scheme come through. 4 Heroes of Light replaces the traditional magic points -- and even attacks -- with a strategy RPG-style "Action Point system" in which every gameplay action subtracts from a gradually replenishing stock of action points. No longer are spells and other special attacks nested within menus: each character has a limited set of actions that can be assigned to the touch screen. You'll be able to try the streamlined Final Fantasy on October 5. %Gallery-93782%
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light coming stateside October 5
It will likely come as no surprise that Square Enix recently published a press release announcing an English localization for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. The DS RPG, which touts "beautiful picture book visuals and an easy to control battle system," and a setting which "goes back to the basics and origins of the Final Fantasy series," will come to the US on October 5, according to the game's official site. Europe will get the game sometime this Fall, but a release date hasn't been specified. The game features a classic turn-based battle system with customizable commands, and a "Crown System" that allows players to change character classes at the drop of a ... well, a hat. Players can also team up with three of their friends to tackle dungeons cooperatively. Check out the first screens of the localized version of the game in the gallery below. %Gallery-93782%
'Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light' classified by OFLC
Further evidence of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light leaving Japan came recently in the form of an OFLC rating. The Australian classification board gave the title a PG rating, deeming its mild fantasy violence safe for the masses -- with parental guidance, of course. Initial hints of the game's release off the island came last month when The 4 Heroes of Light was trademarked in the States by Square Enix. We've followed up with Square Enix for clarification, but don't expect the chocobo to pop its head out of the sand until E3 in June. %Gallery-73955%
Square Enix trademarks 'The 4 Heroes of Light'
Square Enix's original, classic-style Final Fantasy for DS appears to be heading westward. Square Enix trademarked "The 4 Heroes of Light" in the US, which matches pretty closely with the translation of Hikari no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden ("4 Warriors of Light"), the streamlined DS Final Fantasy released in Japan in October. To see the trademark filing, it's number 85006964, searchable in the USPTO database. It might just be the next game you pay the Square Enix tax (by which we mean the customary $40 price for Square's DS games) on! Square Enix's subsidiary Taito also trademarked "Dariusburst," (serial number 85008406) which, unless some bizarre trick is involved, refers to last year's PSP shooter, which updates the company's classic robo-fish-shooting Darius series. %Gallery-73955%[Via Siliconera]
