December 2007

Final Fantasy IV DS Golbez and Cecil Back Story Released

Posted by User Image Aywren on December 31, 2007 in Gaming

Welcome to Wayfarer Wings! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Once again, thanks to Japanese gamers and our friend Roundog, there is more information released to us about the new backstory sequence in FFIV DS. We have a full Japanese script of and a movie [...]

Final Fantasy IV DS & "The After" Sequel Update

Posted by User Image Aywren on December 31, 2007 in Gaming

Final Fantasy IV DS Report

The first week of release in Japan, Final Fantasy IV DS topped off at Number 2 on the Japanese charts. Seems it was beat out by Mario Party 6 for the top slot. Sales releases report that it sold 288,000 copies on launch week.
Why is this important? Well, currently there is [...]

First Final Fantasy IV DS Theodore Fan Art!

Posted by User Image Aywren on December 24, 2007 in Gaming

***INCLUDES FFIV DS SPOILERS!! ***
This wonderful new fanart was created by Syn!
Gotta read the whole post to get the joke — sorry folks!

For those who don’t get the reference (I wouldn’t have), one of our running inside jokes is likening Golbez’s (now also known as Theodore) act of throwing baby Cecil in the grass [...]

Golbez Defined By Final Fantasy IV DS

Posted by User Image Aywren on December 23, 2007 in Gaming

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS — You have been warned!**
I got a quick call today from Rach and she passed on this information to me that came from a letter from Roundog — one of our Japanese friends and FFIV fan. This information comes from people who have finished the game in Japan.
So apparently, this is the summery [...]

Final Fantasy IV DS First Impressions

Posted by User Image Aywren on December 21, 2007 in Gaming

Listing my firsthand thoughts on the game so far:

Intro movie is NICE! I like how they can use split screens to show two simultaneous moments in a movie. Well done.
Battle seems a bit laggy… especially when it’s just one character alone. I guess I could speed up ATB… but I didn’t spend enough time with [...]

Happy Birthday….

Posted by User Image Aywren on December 20, 2007 in Gaming

Happy Birthday Aiden!
Is it just irony that the new FFIV DS is released on Aiden’s birthday? Hmmmm….
Okay. I’ll not start off the day too bitter. I do admit that a lot of things I’ve seen of the new game have been fairly impressive — especially watching through the opening movie and beginning clips. There’s still [...]

Stick. Dead Horse. Let Me Show You Them.

Posted by User Image Aywren on December 18, 2007 in Gaming

I know people are probably tired of hearing my FFIV complaints. But coming home today, something occurred to me. A bit of proof that Squeenix’s new jollybopper developers may be deviating from the original vision of the game. It’s something that Syn and I still talk about quite often (she likens it to what’s happened [...]