Square Enix Goes Back to Square’s One
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As in Final Fantasy I. Japan’s Weekly Jump revealed Square Enix’s new Nintendo DS game this week, which is titled The Four Warriors of Light — better known as the nameless main characters from the first Final Fantasy — and hilariously subtitled A Final Fantasy Anecdote, as if even Square has stopped pretending these FF side games matter at all (“Oh, I wouldn’t call it an epic or adventure, per se. It’s not even that much of a story, really. It’s more of an anecdote I once heard.”) although I admit I’m being sucked into it just because it fits somewhere in FF Uno’s storyline. Besides, I heard that WiiWare’s FFIV: The After Years was pretty darn good, despite being very short and hideously expensive. Sigh. I know. I’m just trying to justify my crippling inability to not purchase things with the words “Final Fantasy” on them. I sound pathetic to me, too. (Via Kotaku)
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