FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS

WHAT?! HOW COME I NEVER HEARD OF THIS!?

This is basically no different with fallout 3 has been doing, dinging you full price for an unfinished game and then paying for another installment of the actual game once it's completed. Smart for them to do so, dumb for us for buying that.

I try not to buy DLC. They eventually made the Resistance: Fall of Man DLC free and this has made me foolishly optimistic. I want to see if any more companies follow suit once people have stopped buying the old stuff.

On topic: bought a while ago, haven't played yet, need to finish IV first. Stupid impulse purchase. Haven't really heard good things but like the concept nevertheless. Will at least play the first half, eventually.

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They can only fit so much in one game at a time.

Unless we're talking Disgaea 3. IIRC, that actually had some of the DLC characters on the disc already and made you pay just to unlock them. : (

(Other games probably do this but Disgaea 3 is the only one I'm aware of.)

Yeah so... this game is pretty terrible; which is confusing because the FF4 DS remake was actually pretty decent for what the remake team had to work with. It looks and reads like a bad RMVX fan game; and that's honestly what I thought it was at first.

The final episode is out now I believe


That said, I agree with Nightblade; there is nothing about this that would make me want to spend money on it. Plus the whole thing costs 3400 points and going 100 points = 1USD, I spent less on FF4DS

For the curious, here's the episode list:

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Prologue (800 points, Available Now)Cecil and Rosa's son, Ceodore, must prove himself as a knight and escape living under the shadow of being Cecil's son. Meanwhile, Baron falls under attack by a mysteriou and nefarious force...
Rydia's Tale (300 points, 5 blocks, Available Now)
Rydia, returning to her second homeland in the Feymarch, finds its queen cold and unwelcome. Suddenly, the Eidolon King and all his subjects freeze, as if turned to stone. Together with Luca, daughter of the dwarven king, Rydia heads to the Dwarven Castle to investigate.
Yang's Tale (300 points, 5 blocks, Available Now)
Yang serves as king of Fabul, but still he trains on a daily basis with his loyal monks. One day his daughter, Princess Ursula, slips away from the castle. Traveling to Mount Hobs to retrieve her, Yang is shocked to find the Red Wings in the sky, ready to invade his country...
Palom's Tale (300 points, 4 blocks, Available Now)
Palom the black mage has sworn to follow in the late Tellah's footsteps and become a sage. His elder sends him to Troia to train Leonora, a novice Epopt, in black magic. What does a peaceful kingdom need such powerful magic for? The upheavals rocking the entire world are about to land on Troia's doorstep...
Edge's Tale (300 points, 5 blocks, Available Now)
Edge, honoring his parents' dying wish, is now king of Eblan. His kingdom is prosperous once more, but the Tower of Babil's ominous glow has returned. To investigate this dour omen, Edge sends four of his most faithful ninja on covert missions spanning the entire globe.
Porom's Tale (300 points, 6 blocks, Available Now)
As the Lunar Whale sets off from the dragon's mouth towards the new moon, monsters suddenly pour out of the Devil's Road. Realizing the danger, the elder of Mysidia orders Porom to visit Mount Ordeals and find the reclusive dragoon who once served Baron with pride...
Edward's Tale (300 points, 5 blocks, Available Now)
Aided by his neighbors, Edward has nursed the kingdom of Damcyan back to health. One night, he witnesses a meteor strike from beyond a castle window. After an emissary from Baron orders Edward not to touch the crash site, the king travels to Cecil's domain with his secretary, Harley, in search of an explanation.
The Lunarian's Tale (300 points, 5 blocks, Available Now)
After their great battle, the Lunarians embarked on an endless journey, slumbering until the time was right--but one of them has woken from a fearsome nightmare, only to find the moon's Crystals brimming with a foreboding red light in their palace...
The Crystals (800 points, 17 blocks, 9/07/09)
As the world is cloaked in darkness, Rydia and Edge search for their old friends. Meanwhile, King Cecil of Baron confronts Kain, Rose, and Ceodore inside his castle. The world is being laid to waste. Can anything be done to stop the encroaching danger?

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Readability is fun!

That isn't as bad as the plot description from Wikipedia:

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Following the events of the original Final Fantasy IV, the second moon leaves the Blue Planet's orbit and there is a period of peace as Damcyan, Eblan, and the Village of Mist are rebuilt, while the Kingdom of Baron comes under the rule of Cecil and his wife, Rosa. However, 17 years later, the second moon has reappeared in the sky, much closer to the planet than it was years ago, and the unchanging Crystals begin to emit a soft light; however, the meaning behind these events remains unknown.

The game revolves around Ceodore (???? Seodoa?), a young man who is the son of Cecil Harvey and Rosa Farrell, two of the protagonists from the original, both of whom return along with most of the other main cast members and a number of entirely new characters. Amongst these new additions to the cast are the Hooded Man (??? Nazo no Otoko?, lit. "Mysterious Man"), a wandering swordsman enshrouded in purple robes who is strangely familiar with Cecil's previous adventure, and the Mysterious Woman (???? Nazo no Sh?jo?), a female antagonist able to summon Eidolons, who attacks the kingdoms in search of the Crystals.

The storyline of the game unfolds through episodic chapters, released roughly once a month, each primarily focused on a specific character. These chapters utilize foreshadowing, cliffhangers, flashbacks, and a nonlinear narrative structure to build the world setting and both explore and expand upon the mysterious events befalling the Blue Planet.

(EM)

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RMN hates unicode or something, all those question marks are supposed to be Japanese. You can see the full thing here