Are you suffering from the bad after-taste of the last few Final Fantasy series?
Yeah, we feel ya. And we think Square Enix felt the gamers’ pain too.

A couple of months ago, Square Enix announced the new Final Fantasy for Nintendo DS, and told everyone that it might win over the traditional Final Fantasy fans’ hearts. There wasn’t much information available other than the features list:

• A Brand-New FINAL FANTASY For Nintendo DS
Experience an original story set in an all-new world created by the team behind the Nintendo DS versions of FINAL FANTASY III and FINAL FANTASY IV.

• Beautiful Picture-Book Visuals
Akihiko Yoshida (FINAL FANTASY III DS, FINAL FANTASY XII) provides world-class art direction, lending the game’s cast and environments a charming picture-book style.

• User-Friendly Controls
A simple Touchscreen interface offers easy access to the game’s extensive arsenal of physical, magical and summoning abilities, meaning that players can forget about the controls and focus on the enemy.

• Near Limitless Customisation
Thanks to the game’s Crown System, characters can now switch their class at the drop of a hat or, more accurately, the change of a hat. Simply by changing the crown a character is wearing, players can assign them different abilities, and with over 20 crowns to discover (including Black Mage, White Mage and Ranger crowns), the strategic options are practically limitless.

• Share the Fun with Friends!
Using DS Wireless Play, up to four friends can team up to tackle challenging dungeons. Apart from being a lot of fun, multiplayer mode allows players to collect Battle Points which can be exchanged for rare items, and these can then be used in single-player mode.

Words are never enough to answer gamers’ curiosity nowadays. So today, Square Enix has released quite a number of screenshots and artworks to satisfy your needs. Let’s take a look at the screenshots first.

The Nintendo DS resolution doesn’t really give you the punch of excitement. What we’re excited about is the very cool 2D artworks.

It has less of the anime-look of recent 3D Final Fantasy series, and more of a classic 2D Final Fantasy art. We love it!

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light will be available on October 5, 2010. You can visit the official website for more information, including the pre-order link. – http://www.ff4heroes.com/