Game Developers Conference 2009

Square Enix is bringing two new Final Fantasy WiiWare games and the first Final Fantasy game for the Wii Virtual Console. The two new WiiWare games are Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (see first screenshot here) and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord (see first screenshots here). For the Wii Shop's Virtual Console, RPG gamers can look forward to where the series began with the release of the original Final Fantasy (NES) game coming.

About the upcoming Wii Shop games, from Square Enix:
"FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS, is an RPG that continues the story that began in the 1991 Super Famicom title FINAL FANTASY IV. In Japan, this title was released as a downloadable cellular phone application in February 2008. It has since been lauded for its deep storytelling, and a year after its release, has been downloaded over 3 million times.

The game focuses primarily on Ceodore, son of FINAL FANTASY IV heroes Cecil and Rosa. He is ably supported by a host of familiar faces from the original cast who star in a series of additional tales. For more information, visit the official website at ff4theafteryears.com.

FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a Darklord is the newest instalment in the FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES series, which has shipped over 2 million copies worldwide and is set to grow further in 2009. This title will be a sequel to FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a King, which launched simultaneously with the WiiWare service in May of 2008.

FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a Darklord puts players in the highly fashionable shoes of the Darklord's daughter, a malevolent little Miss, charged with dispatching intruding do-gooders by strategically placing traps and monsters around the tower she calls home. Players will need to get their hands on ever more diabolical traps and abominable monsters to stop those pesky adventurers from making it to the Dark Crystal at the top of the tower. Be warned, though with heroes of all the races and job classes from the FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES series storming the Darklord's lair in real time, traps and minions will count for nothing unless deployed like a true evil genius. Anything less and the Darklord's beloved home will be reduced to rubble! For more information, visit the official website at MyLifeasaDarklord.com.

In addition, the Virtual Console allows Wii users to download and play classic titles released on previous game consoles, and now for the first time ever, the FINAL FANTASY series will be made available via home console download. The first instalment of the series will be FINAL FANTASY, originally released for the Famicom in Japan in 1987, which will be available for download in May 2009 in Japan. The release date for PAL region will be in 2009. The historic first instalment of the FINAL FANTASY series is now available on Virtual Console! Select jobs (classes) for your party of four, and set off on exciting adventures as the Warriors of Light. Staple FINAL FANTASY elements such as the job system, spells such as Cure and Fire all began here!"

From Square Enix

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