Final Fantasy V and VI coming to GBA!

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:16 pm

News - Final Fantasy V and VI coming to the GBA
Posted by Ash Paulsen at 08:14:45 AM EST on 10.5.2005.

Just yesterday, Square Enix President Yoichi Wada made a rather big announcement at Nintendo's DS Conference in Japan: Final Fantasy IV isn't the only game in the series that will see an updated re-release on the Game Boy Advance. Now it is known that Final Fantasy V and fan-favorite Final Fantasy VI are also in the works for Nintendo's chameleon handheld... but wait, there's more: like FF IV Advance, FF V and VI will come with content not found in either the original Super NES or "updated" PS1 ports of the games. Both games are slated for release next year, following the holiday release of FF IV Advance.

This news, of course, isn't a complete surprise: there has been speculation that Square Enix was up to more than just a portable remake of FF IV after last week's issue of Shonen Jump! in Japan called FF IV Advance the first entry in the "Final Fantasy Series Port Project."

Wada also divulged some new information regarding the cloudy status of the long-awaited DS version of Final Fantasy III. According to Wada, the game is definitely in development, but is undergoing some major cosmetic changes: polygons are now being used for both the characters and the fields, which would most likely account for the long development time.

Final Fantasy IV Advance is scheduled for release in North America on December 12, just in time for the holidays. GAF will being you any more news on FF V and VI for the GBA as it develops.

Source: RPGamer

Link: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=5617

Discuss.

Edit: Fuck. Thanks, Ganelon.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:20 pm

I think your title meant to say FFV and VI. Anyway, FFV is my favorite installment in the series so it's great to see it again.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:53 pm

6 is my personal favorite out of all the ones I've played (4-9) in the FF series...hopefully they won't mess anything up too much in this port. Heck, the load times in the PS1 version slowed it down quite a bit...

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:28 pm

Did Final Fantasy III come out on the GBA?

EDIT:

D'oh, forget about that, just saw the DS screens. Mmmmm

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:54 pm

Oh, good... maybe I'd FINALLY get to play V, since my ex decided to whore the system so I couldn't

Also, something to do on lunch break = BONUS

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:31 am

theevilfunkster wrote:Did Final Fantasy III come out on the GBA?

EDIT:

D'oh, forget about that, just saw the DS screens. Mmmmm

Yeah, FFIII is getting a thorough remake for the DS. No info yet on how remade IV-VI will be though.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:12 am

Man, Square's milkin the FFs on GBA, huh. Wonder if they'll do the same on PSP with at least VII.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:04 am

VI Again. YES.

I'd rather not get those "extras", though. I wonder how they'll decide to ruin it... Another of Shadow's dreams? Sigfried a playing character? You can save Leo from his fate?

Palmer Eldritch · Post by **Palmer Eldritch** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:38 pm

Let me get this straight.
FF 1,2,4,5 and 6 for GBA
FF 3 for DS.

Why is this? The third one was originally one of the more obscure, never ported to the west installments, wasn´t it?

When the sixth installment turned out to be FFIII in the States it kind of closed the book on doing the others later on (until the PSX version etc)

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:35 pm

Turrican wrote:VI Again. YES.

I'd rather not get those "extras", though. I wonder how they'll decide to ruin it... Another of Shadow's dreams? Sigfried a playing character? You can save Leo from his fate?

If it's anything like Dawn of Souls, the extras will be tacked on somewhere else and should be completely avoidable if you don't care about them.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:55 am

sethsez wrote:
Turrican wrote:VI Again. YES.

I'd rather not get those "extras", though. I wonder how they'll decide to ruin it... Another of Shadow's dreams? Sigfried a playing character? You can save Leo from his fate?
If it's anything like Dawn of Souls, the extras will be tacked on somewhere else and should be completely avoidable if you don't care about them.

I hope so. I'm worried however about the GBA sound capabilities. Will it be able to replicate Uematsu's score in all its greatness?

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:50 am

I liked the inclusion of the extra stuff that Square-Enix included in the Dawn of Souls, mainly because I was always bored at work and the extra stuff kept me busy after I was done with the main quest storyline.

So here's to hoping that they'll add some neat extra stuff in this upcoming GBA release. I just pray that it isn't mind-numbingly retarded.

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:56 am

Turrican wrote:I hope so. I'm worried however about the GBA sound capabilities. Will it be able to replicate Uematsu's score in all its greatness?

Dawn of Souls did a good job of replicating PSOne midi, so I think Square's up to it.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:12 am

Wow, Square's really milking it... not a bad thing though.

I'm waiting for Chrono Trigger to be ported to GBA....

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:34 pm

As long as they don't dumb down the gameplay too much...the idea of a portabile FF6 is too good to be true.

The PS1 ports were completely ruined by horrible loading times.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:52 pm

I thought the load times were just fine. The only annoying part of it I experienced was saving to a memory card.

Moogs · Post by **Moogs** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:17 am

Good. Now I can retire FF Anthology and FF Chronicles to collector's item status and stop playing games with inexplicable loading and slowdown and poorly emulated sound and music.

BRING ON THE PORTS!