Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

Knew it was coming, but didn't know it'd be this soon.
The American Wii store is now home to the translated port of Square's Japanese mobile phone sequel to fan favourite RPG Final Fantasy IV.
Priced at 800 points, it's worth a punt as much as any other title up on the store.
I personally don't know very much about the story etc, so it could go either way.
Hoping it'll be up in Europe by Friday.
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject:

Uhh. Wiiware?

How am I supposed to pirate that?
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject:

It's possible, though I don't have a haxed Wii (the only console I've ever mossed was the PS2).
Come to London and review it with me! Mr. Green

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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:24 am Post subject:

I'd put that down to Nintendo's very inflexible Wiiware pricing system.
Hopefully the episodes aren't tiny.

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:20 pm Post subject:

Cecil had a child? but he is gays!
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject:

I thought Cecil was pretty homo for Kain myself
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject:

Ughghg. I just looked it up on Wiki and they've completely ruined Golbez.

Hmm... I should try and badger someone into buying me a Wii so I can hack it and play it, since I have no money to come to London and review it. Sad

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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:14 am Post subject:

Well, fuck. I've had 800 points sitting around doing nothing for like 2 years... time to spend

! I wonder if I won't even finish it, like Mega Man 9
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:15 am Post subject:

You should've bought world of goo instead. Which is the best Wii game ever, aside from Mario Galaxy 1 & 2.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:42 am Post subject:

Or buy it on PC and not waste money on a Wii!

... I suck at World of Goo so bad it's not funny.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:13 am Post subject:

Never played it.
Undien, you need to review The After for us

Incidentally, the game's out in Europe on Friday. I'll download it then, and see if I can hold any kind of interest in it

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:45 am Post subject:

I just finished it. My exact words when I got to the "ending":

What? What the fuck? Eight dollars for THIS?

I may have been a bit more satisfied at the 5 hours of gameplay had it not consisted of mostly battle screen. I don' t think there's a whole lot I can possibly spoil, since the smash-bros-esque "cutscenes" pretty much explain that everyone is roughly 15 years older or something. Oh, Palom's still chasing the ladies! Oh, Edward's still spoony! Oh, Tellah's still dead! Oh, Cecil still has the best hair in the kingdom! Oh, Kain still has jealousy issues! Most of the plot advancement involves Ceodore falling down. I really wish I was making this up.

As for the battle system changes, there's some crap about the "phase of the moon" nerfing or buffing attacks or magic at any given time, but the effects aren't that noticable, especially since you're stuck with melee characters through most of the game. Yeah, supposedly Ceodore can use white magic, but he sucks. I had to put him in the back row with bows for a bit, but after every cutscene he got reset back in front. Blarg. Oh and they ripped off Crono Trigger slightly with "Band" attacks, which basically amount to: oh, 2 characters attack at once, and use MP! BRILLIANT!

All in all, it's probably better than a swift kick to the balls, but as I don't have balls, I really wouldn't know.

Oh, and next episode is 300 points.
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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:54 am Post subject:

All of the Strongbad games run about 5 hours, and they're ten bucks.
The idiots at gamefaqs figured out the entire FF4-2 package is going to be $37.

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

Shame it's not that good, but at least if it's that short I'll be able to finish it

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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject:

This thread has inspired me to pick up FFIV DS and get past Baron

I'm actually rather enjoying the game, especially the new difficulty.
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject:

Played about an hour of The After thismorning. Seems good enough.

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:23 am Post subject:

So, I open up iGoogle and the first thing I see is a Lifehacker ad about backing up Wii games. Little bit of reading later, it seems it might actually be possible (and pretty easy) to pirate Wii stuff!

... would require buying a Wii though.
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:10 am Post subject:

Hacking a Wii is about as easy as hacking a PSP, if not easier.

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:04 am Post subject:

Tbh though, if you're willing to shell out for a Wii, you might as well cough up the extra fiver for the game

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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:20 am Post subject:

Opening up a Wii is as simple as a couple of downloads on a SD card:
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Bannerbomb
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Bootmii

Of course, these are largely vectors for Homebrew. I don't know much of anything about overt piracy. Pretty much all I do with it is cheat at Punch-Out.

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:35 am Post subject:

I don't know about anything since the Twilight hack Shock

Does this method let you play pirated stuff as well as legit stuff, or does it brick the Wii if you try to go online etc?

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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:05 am Post subject:

Hmmmm interesting. It might be worth looking into then

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject:

I just finished Rydia's Tale, and I liked it better than the first part. Less bullshit for the sake of bullshit, and just going through the damn dungeons, smacking everything that moves. Also includes a "challenge dungeon" which I didn't play, but I assume that's where the moved the bullshit to.

One minor gripe:
Can ANYONE in the game pilot an airship without running it into the fucking ground? Seriously? Now there's two things lacking in this story: landing pads and therapists. I mean really, does everybody have to climb a fucking mountain to deal with their inner bullshit? And what the fuck is up with there being a different "mysterious person" (no, not the creepy blue haired girl) showing up in every part? First guy was "Totally not Kain", and now there's "Totally not Edge". Bleh. At least there wasn't so much falling down in this one.

.. hmm, turned into a bit of a rant

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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:26 am Post subject:

I'll try to finish the first bit and move onto that at some point this week.

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject:

So a point is a penny, then?
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:20 am Post subject:

I should become "Totally not Golbez" for awhile.

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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:08 am Post subject:

I should change Golbez account name to what Golbez real name is

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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:11 am Post subject:

Works for me. Mr. Green

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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:17 pm Post subject:

I played more:

Yang's tale: monks are way overpowered. Except when there's a turtle boss. WTF @ turtles in this game, it would not surprise me in the slightest if a turtle was the end boss.

Edge's tale: somehow, 5 ninjas are more balanced than any other party I've played in this game yet. wtf square?

Polom's story: I donno yet, I haven't bought it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

I need to get round to playing this more. I'm so rubbish at playing games nowdays. seriously! Ahhh!

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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:06 am Post subject:

That was fun. Wonder how long I'll keep it this way for...

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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:28 am Post subject:

I've played about 4 hours of this now

What's with the name change btw?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject:

It was inspired by this thread (and by boredom). Mr. Green

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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:32 pm Post subject:

I can't believe you've still kept the edit I made to your sig all this time.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:23 pm Post subject:

Oops. I have to change it for the sake of the disguise.

That's better.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject:

*tests something*

Hey, I CAN mess with an admin's profile

*changes back*
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:30 pm Post subject:

Oh. I didn't see what you did.

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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:54 pm Post subject:

Just changed a word in your sig. Normally when I want to mess with profiles I can do it by clickin the profile button, but you can't do it with Admin accounts, so I just used the ACP.

I wonder if could de-admin Damien and initate a takeover? Shock

I'd get bored within a day and hand it back.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject:

I don't think that's possible

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:03 am Post subject:

I dunno, the ACP seemed fine to let to me downgrade you to a user member. Shock

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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

Before you hack SG you need to make a :sadtea icon for us, otherwise how are we gonna express our sorrow when members of the TBB get de-admined and de-modded?

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

Btw, why does Undine, Ward, etc have no status bar? D:

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject:

I keep forgetting about :sadtea

Urgh... Waa Waa and Undine have status bars just fine, but you can't see them if you're just a regular member. I don't get it either. I think Doom and Questionmarktarius are affected by it too. As soon as I became Admin I was like "They have avatars now?"
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