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Game Review: ファイナルファンタジーIV ピクセルリマスター
2022-Aug-18, Thursday 11:41
My interest with Final Fantasy IV doesn't date back to playing it during my childhood. Like I've written before, my parents didn't like that the Super Nintendo wasn't backwards compatible and so refused to buy me one, leading me to become a PC gamer. Instead, like Power Blade and Shatterhand before it, I really got into FFIV by reading about it in Nintendo Power #30, where it got a cover.
The cover really has nothing to do with the game--I'm not sure who that swordsman is, and I guess the bird he's riding must be an American artist's interpretation of a black chocobo--but the article captivated me. I had already spent weeks playing through and beating Final Fantasy the previous year after borrowing it from a friend, and Super Mario Bros. 2 and especially Super Mario Bros. 3 had primed me to be hyped for sequels. With no chance of playing through through Final Fantasy II myself, I read and re-read about the Four Fiends, the Redwings, Astos the Dark Elf (who I remembered from Final Fantasy!), Rydia the Caller, the 70s fantasy novel art of the characters--I read that article over and over, since if I couldn't play the game at least I could experience it vicariously. I didn't get the chance to actually play it until much later, when I moved to Japan in 2008 and played two games on the planeride over. The first was the World Ends with You, which served me well when I left our hotel and walked from Harajuku to Shibuya, but the second was the DS remake of Final Fantasy IV, with the voice acting and New Game+ and Augments. I had always heard that it was so different as to be essentially a new game, though, so once the pixel remasters came out, and with FFXIV: Endwalker taking so much inspiration from FFIV, now was the perfect time to play the original.
Blasting off again.
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The cover really has nothing to do with the game--I'm not sure who that swordsman is, and I guess the bird he's riding must be an American artist's interpretation of a black chocobo--but the article captivated me. I had already spent weeks playing through and beating Final Fantasy the previous year after borrowing it from a friend, and Super Mario Bros. 2 and especially Super Mario Bros. 3 had primed me to be hyped for sequels. With no chance of playing through through Final Fantasy II myself, I read and re-read about the Four Fiends, the Redwings, Astos the Dark Elf (who I remembered from Final Fantasy!), Rydia the Caller, the 70s fantasy novel art of the characters--I read that article over and over, since if I couldn't play the game at least I could experience it vicariously. I didn't get the chance to actually play it until much later, when I moved to Japan in 2008 and played two games on the planeride over. The first was the World Ends with You, which served me well when I left our hotel and walked from Harajuku to Shibuya, but the second was the DS remake of Final Fantasy IV, with the voice acting and New Game+ and Augments. I had always heard that it was so different as to be essentially a new game, though, so once the pixel remasters came out, and with FFXIV: Endwalker taking so much inspiration from FFIV, now was the perfect time to play the original.
Blasting off again.
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