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Monday, March 2, 2009

WiiWare: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Crystal Defenders Coming To American WiiWare

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Well Siliconera, 1UP.com and we at GamerBytes have been debating about Square's previously Japanese phone-only sequel to Final Fantasy IV, titled The After and its plans for it. Will it be getting an English release? What console will it be coming too? Today's ESRB update clears is all up.

The rating for Final Fantasy IV - The After Years claims that the game will be coming to WiiWare specifically. The rating states that the game is a "2D role-playing game in which players embark on an adventure involving magical crystals and a mysterious kingdom", so it sounds like it will be a straight port of the game, rather than something that looks similar to the recent DS remake of Final Fantasy IV

The ESRB has also updated with ratings for Crystal Defenders R1 and R2. We had previously suggested that it may be only making it to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network due to other ratings for the game, but its clear now that it had to be rated seperately due to the splitting up of the episodes.

Since the XBLA and PSN versions have all 300 stages included in the game, and the WiiWare one is split up into ten dollar chunks, I have a feeling that WiiWare players might end up getting ripped off. Still, we do not know the pricing of the other versions yet, but considering the iPhone version has the whole experience for $9.99 it's a little overpriced.

Source: ESRB

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