Square announced Final Fantasy 1 + 2 Advance

[defier]

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Square Enix announced Final Fantasy I & II Advance for GameBoy Advance, the game is scheduled to release in Japan in July, for 6090 yen. Both games will feature additional stories and dungeons not found in the original game.

Final Fantasy I will have a new dungeon called Soul of Chaos, in which you will find the four Soul of Chaos monsters (powerful boss monsters), as well as various powerful equipment and valuable items. The magic system in FF1 has also changed to a MP consumption system like in the other FF titles.

Final Fantasy II will feature an extra story called Soul of Re-Birth, the story is about four heroes who died in the story, plus additional background stories for each of the heroes. There are also a number of new events, monsters and special items in the game.



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[defier]

Some more shots.

[DocFrance]

Hmm... Part of me wants to believe these are fake. They just recently FF1 and 2 on the PSX, and they've already released them on another handheld system (the Wonderswan Color, though only in Japan). I've got the feeling that these are just screenshots from the WSC versions, with "GBA" 'shopped in. Especially since on of the monsters in the FF1 pic is just the Doom Train from FF6.

Care to give us a link to where you found this info?

[Heath]

Looks pretty interesting, I certainly hope they aren't fake.

[defier]

Have a look at:

http://www.rpgamer.com/

It's the 2 latest news posts.

[Black Mage FF1]

Its actually not fake. In fact it comes out in japan on 7/15/04. BTW the soul of chaos includes monsters from previous ff games. Which explains the reason for the screen shot with the phantom train.

[Heath]

Yeah, I thought it looked closer to the Phantom Train from FFVI than Doomtrain from FFVIII and I'm glad it's not fake. I'll certainly have to purchase these.

[defier]

I knew they were real so i posted it.

If they turned out to be fake i would have been slapped across the head.

[Marble]

Actually, Heath, it's an exact copy of the Phantom Train.

[Sephex]

I MAY get this if it is at a reasonable price since I own the original FFI, have the original FFII on my computer, and own 'Origins' for PSX.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

This is the craziest thing in the world.

[DocFrance]

Alright, it seems believeable. But I still wanna know why S-E hasn't released FFIII or SD3 at all. If you ask me, those two would go great together.

[DJZen]

Perhaps they will if people actually buy this game bundle. You have to admit it's odd, though. They've made FF1 for FC, MSX, FCDS, WSC, PS1 and recently the FOMA cell phone. It seems they have no quarrel with re-making this game until the end of time. Not that *I* have a quarrel...... Although personally I don't think there's a need to make FF2 more challenging (see sig).

[Mr. Graves]

They should've done this before instead of remaking them for the PSX. Now the whole idea of a GBA port of both just seems a lot less appealing now.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The Origins package was worth doing just for the sake of the beautiful high-quality music.

When I first read about this I was skeptical because it's not really like Square to not wait a while after announcing a product to release a bunch of details about it, but it makes sense: they'd have to really hawk whatever's new about this to try to convince people to buy FFI and II yet again.

And yes, as long as it comes Stateside, I'll be getting it.