Four Warriors multiplayer details emerge...

The upcoming DS title "4 Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden" looks to return to a simpler time in the franchise. But not so traditional is the addition of a multiplayer wi-fi option in which players will be able to traverse the overworld and spelunk into dungeons in turn-based random encounter deliciousness. It's not revealed yet if players will be able to trade in-game commodities but I'm more than willing to say it looks like a go.

The official site updated with this information, check it out here.

(Thanks to Athel of Kingdom Hearts Insider for the heads up!)

New 4WoL details

• Can be completed in 40 hours (originally 30 hours during development)
• Each character can only carry fifteen items
• Items don't stack (think Earthbound)
• Auto-targeting will make battles go by more quickly
• Lots and lots of optional sidequests not part of the main story
• Also like Earthbound, you can swap out items you're carrying with items from a previous inventory using hiding places

SOURCES: NeoGAF via GoNintendo (Dengeki Magazine)

Four Warriors of Light site updates

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/hikarino4sensi/

As soon you bring up the main page, you'll notice that a banner linking to Square's TGS page has been added.

The World page now has a map featuring some of the game's locations, as well as new entries for three guest characters such as the previously mentioned mouse mage. Whether or not this will be it for the guest characters in 4WoL is unknown.

System has been updated with eight job profiles: (from left to right) Beast Tamer, Druid, Monk, Knight, Black Mage, White Mage, Alchemist, and Recorder.

SOURCES: Athel at KHInsider for the tip, duckroll at NeoGAF for the job titles.

Four Warriors of Light boxart

Truly, truly amazing! I really hope this comes with an artbook.



SOURCES: GoNintendo

New 4WoL artwork, fresh squeezed (from the site)

A new piece of artwork for Four Warriors of Light was found on the official website today. This picture of the chibi warriors taking on a monster is one of many conceptual artwork pieces from Akihiko Yoshida made public since the announcement of the DS game. Japan is still expecting to have the game release this year.

◆ New piece of artwork.

SOURCES: Gilgamesh (NeoGAF)

Sure was lack of 4WoL news around here. >:

(Right?)

The Famitsu site has posted more 4WoL eyecandy, showing more job classes such as the Bard class shown above. Also featured is the Knight, Monk, Beast Tamer classes. Click here to check 'em out~ Furthermore, the magazine has confirmed another class called the "Recorder," which uses the party's stats (number of battles fought, enemies defeated, times escaped, etc.) to modify battle circumstances.

The recent Jump has also confirmed that guest party members (a la FFXII) will be featured in 4WoL, one of them being a mouse who dreams of becoming a great sage one day (hehe).

Lastly, the OST for 4WoL has been announced, and will be on sale November 4th. If you're Japanese-savvy, click on the album art for more info.

SOURCES: duckroll@NeoGAF (via GoNintendo)

UPDATE:
New Famitsu scans:

◆ #1: 4WoL's available jobs.
◆ #2: 4WoL's available jobs. (cont)

SOURCES: True Gaming (via GoNintendo)

More screenshots of Four Warriors of Light

You can full the new screenshot gallery here, courtesy of Gamekyo.

SOURCES: Gamekyo

Four Warriors of Light - monster art

More here…
A bear? Shit yeah a bear, nobody fucks with a bear!

More importantly though, when is the western release for this going to be announced? Make my day, Square.

(Thanks by the way, GoNintendo!)

Four Warriors of Light - Famitsu scans

SOURCES: True Gaming (via GoNintendo)

Staff list revealed for Four Warriors

Recently, the official website for Four Warriors of Light was updated with a more detailed listing of the staff taking part.

The game is being developed by

Production: Tomoya Asano
Director: Takashi Tokita and Hiroaki Yabuta
Main Program: Shimpei Takayanagi
Scenario: Kougyoku Iduki
Design and Art Direction characters: Akihiko Yoshida
Direction Chart: Jin Tamura
Illustrations: Yuka Miyamoto, Masao Tsubasa and Tomomi Fujino
Sound Direction: Tomohiro Kamiya
Music composition: Naoshi Mizuta
Arrangements and synthesizer programming: Mitsuto Suzuki

SOUCRES: Final Fantasy Union

I'm back and time for a recap

Alrighty, now that I'm back I might as well post a bit of news that's happened in this little gap since I last wrote. (Also thx steve<3) So, a list of the major news stories in the lsat few weeks:

IGN Posts Dissidia character exhibitions for Bartz, Terra, Cloud and Squall.
Gamespy Posts Dissidia character exhibitions for Exdeath, Kefka, Sephiroth and Ultimecia
Dissidia demo for PSP releases on PSN.
New screenshots for Four Warriors of Light.
Direct feed FFXIII screenshots.
Final Fantasy XIII to get release date in the coming weeks.

Four Warriors site update, new screenshots

Another site update for 4 Warriors of Light, that includes new screenshots of the status screen including some new jobs and equipment. Also, Square-Enix made available some new wallpapers for your desktoppy. Visit the official site's Download section to get one.







SOURCE: Official site.

New screenshots for Four Warriors of Light

Impress Watch uploaded some new screenshots of Four Warriors of Light were made public today.

Courtesy andreasang.com:


SOURCES: Silconeria, Impress Watch, andreasang.com, Silh for the heads up.