Following in the footsteps of their many rereleases, Square Enix is preparing a Gameboy Advance version of their classic Final Fantasy V, originally released for the Super Nintendo, for a fall release in both the United States and Japan. While the game lands in Japan in October, an American version will be available shortly thereafter on November 6th. A European edition is currently being prepared for an early 2007 release.
For those of you eager to relive your childhood in the daring adventure of the sexy pirate Faris and her various cohorts, Final Fantasy V Advance should more than deliver. The game features, as expected, a refined gameplay system (including new menus and slight changes in the dialogue and sound) and updated graphics. This almost certainly means that the annoying amount of time it took to bring up the menu in the PS1 version of Final Fantasy V will be gone, and the graphics of the title will likely be as detailed as Final Fantasy VI's sprites.
'Could there possibly be more!?', you ask, with barely restrained glee? Well, there certainly is! A difficult new thirty level dungeon called "Sealed Ruin" is being added to Final Fantasy V, as well as two new job classes: Gladiator and Cannoneer. As is implied by the names, the Gladiator is a sword-expert with special attacks that can hit every enemy at once or deal equal damage to those in the back row, while the cannoneer can do all sorts of nifty things with a cannon.
Here's a link to the game's official (Japanese) website.
[Source: Cubed3 News]
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