FFIV looking as sumptuous as ever in new trailer

Woa, That's a crapload of voice acting. This game will take a while to localize.

And did the Love Theme always have lyrics, or did they just add it to this game?

Holy crap, that looks awesome! Does anyone know when the American release date is?!

WOW! A whole gigabit!? Thats never been done!

Except it has, many times. Some games that use a gigabit include Ouendan 2, Elite Beat Agents, Resident Evil DS, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, Bleach DS, FFIII, Revanent Wings, Crystal Chronicles, Heroes of Mana, Hotel Dusk, Dynasty Warriors DS, etc.

As one who's loved FFIV since it first came out on the SNES as FFII, I'm very much looking forward to this.

That having been said, the old-school gamer in me isn't thrilled with a few of the stylistic changes.

1. The Theme of Love having lyrics. To my knowledge it never did. And I personally don't love the addition. I don't know, maybe it's because it seems more pretentious...or because it's a stylistic element of the newer FF games that they're plugging in to the old ones. Let the PS-era FF games have their high falootin' songs with lyrics. Give me the Celtic Moon version over that anyday.

2. The look of the characters, and to a lesser extent the locations, in the FMV's. I realize that their look is actually pretty close to the original designs, and only now can they realize those designs within the game (aside from the drawn character portraits from the menu screen). But, I personally am not as much a fan of the realistic "we're Square and look how accurately we can do CG people...and fantasy-looking stuff in general" look. I commend the Square-Enix artists for their CG modeling and animation talent. It's just...I like a more cartoon/anime vibe. And fortunately, even if it is only because of hardware limitations, it is those designs that are used for the bulk of the game.

Rydia needs to look hotter. Unless that is child Rydia.

I think the difference in style of the cut-scenes and the action is way too jarring. Not that any of you care. Continue.

Looking good! It's trailers like this that let me continue to fool myself into believing that one day FFVII DS could be possible.

s'if.

This makes me wish that I spoke Japanese. It also makes me wish that I had a time machine.

People keep talking about a DS version of FFVII, and how great it would be.

Other than it being portable, I don't see how a DS version would be that great. There'd probably be little in the way of graphical enhancements (full 3D backgrounds wouldn't look as good as the old prerendered ones). Audio improvements might consist of voice overs.

I'm not anti FFVII. I'm just saying that I personally don't see the big appeal.

NES and SNES games on the other hand, which have more room for technical improvements...those I personally find more interesting.

Spoony Bard or not, Square owns my wallet with this one. This is the one DS game that I absolutely *WILL HAVE* opening day, no matter what kind of hell I have to go through for it.

Though taking out the Spoony Bard would be like taking out Garland knockin' us all down in FF1. Blasphemy!

Still...I've been waiting for this for 15 years, since I first played FFIV. (Though as a child, I didn't know video game graphics could go this far. I wanted a movie, lol).

Wow...this looks amazing. I hope that FFVI gets this treatment despite how I feel about Square's remaking phase.

I'm actually playing through FFIII (going to beat it this time, curse that final dungeon), a second time as anticipation for this release. Considering the game's age, FFIII was indeed a pretty well made game, and I'm looking forward to FFIV, which looks like it will be better in every way imagineable.

As for people saying FFVII can't be improved in the portable edition, I only played the game for about an hour (I had no memory card for my PS2, and the person loaning it to me wasn't around for a long time), but man, the 3D models sucked hard. If nothing else, they could improve that. Despite capacity limitations for the DS cards, the DS itself is a more powerful system than the PS1.

i think i just wet my pants! lol. i cant wait for this game to come out! oMg

freaking amazing. go away, haters... this is going to be incredible.