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[Takara]

Either that, or Yang's Wife got busy with Kain?

[Roto13]

Most of those characters don't really look old enough, especially Palom and Porom. Shouldn't they be, like, 30 by now? They only look a few years older.

Stupid Japan.

[Sagensyg]

Is it me or does Gilbart look more like a monk, or a Fighter from FFTA? Maybe he manned up and lost his harp stroking ways and chose the path of victory!

[scrumpleberry]

ZOMG LUCA THE DWARF PRINCESS YESSSSS

Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryûkishi ^

Ursula is a wonderful name.

Very much so. Ghibli ftw. But I do think the's going to be the bratty character, which makes me apprehensive.

[Rase]

lol at Cid, Yang, and Luca.

Anyway, yeah, hopefully this eventually reaches the US in a platform that I can actually be bothered to play it on.

[Big D]

Looks like quite a neat project - and there's even the theoretical possibility of a release on a western-friendly console in the future, presumably. I like how they've kept the look of the original game, assuming those screenshots are actual in-game images from The After.
It's neat that there'll finally be an FF with a cast of mainly over-30 year olds who aren't relegated to "decrepit fuddy-duddy" or "dies in the next chapter" status. A bit of respect for mature characters at last.

Kinda cheap that they gave Porom a translucent negligee for a costume, though. Makes her on-screen sprite look somewhat... naked.

I actually kinda like their depiction of the Dwarves. They looked short, dark and stout in the old game, and except for the costume change, they've stayed pretty true to that - even the bright yellow eyes. Luca's hair colour's a little surprising, but most of the old Dwarves seemed to wear hats anyway. The rest of her outfit, garish colour aside, seems to be thick and heavy - which is fairly consistent with depictions of Dwarves, and their environment.

It's funny... except for the fact that this'll be a cellphone game, it's practically an old-school obsessive's dream-come-true:
* True sequel to an early FF
* Original characters remain, but some new ones brought in too
* No Tetsuya Nomura to be seen
* Original 2-D game environment retained
* Minimal reliance on cheap sluttiness
* Continuation and expansion of the original characters' stories
* Further insight into the world developed in the original game
* Proof that S-E aren't channeling all their resources and creativity into exploiting the 'new' FF games for profit

...So naturally it stands to reason that about 3/4 of the posts in this thread are expressions of complaint

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The visuals are severely dated. They could have used 2D graphics that were true to the original game and still made made the most of modern technology to improve the color palette and level of detail.

[KoShiatar]

I'm not sure that was really possible on a mobile phone screen... or was it?