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#review Four unassuming adventurers set forth on a journey to save a magical kingdom in Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light for the Nintendo DS. Now where have I heard this story before? More »

Square Enix keeps the old school alive with another DS RPG that knows its roots.

LOS ANGELES (October 5, 2010) – Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive entertainment products in North America, today announced that FINAL FANTASY®: THE 4 HEROES OF LIGHT™ is now available at North American retailers. FINAL FANTASY: THE 4 HEROES OF LIGHT is the first original FINAL FANTASY role-playing game (RPG) [...]

#clips Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light for the Nintendo DS hits stores today, giving fans of the first FF games a good old-fashioned role-playing experience. Check out the official launch trailer. More »

A portion of a 1up review… Maybe the only way Square’s old-time developers can make a game that hearkens back to the days of classic, demanding RPGs is to dress it up in cute graphics and disguise it as a Final Fantasy game, but so be it. I’m glad they pulled it off. 4 Heroes of [...]

Though the rest of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light may look quaint and simple, it seems the game's combat system is anything but. Check out the trailer after the jump for a brief dossier on action points, command rules, psyching up, group attacks and all the other minutiae of war.

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Get psyched for the new Final Fantasy. Your attack stat goes way up if you do.

Introducing the 4 Heroes of Light.

To help convince you to roll directly from Dragon Quest IX to another Square Enix DS RPG, Square Enix has partnered with retailers to offer pre-order bonuses for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, in addition to throwing a bonus item into first-run copies.

Every copy of the game in the initial pressing will include a very cute poster of the characters emerging from a book. Pre-orders from GameStop will get you another poster, featuring the dragon image from the game's box art (also in our gallery). Finally, Amazon pre-orders will include something that isn't a poster, but is welcome nonetheless: a $10 credit on a future game purchase.

· Limited Edition First Run Poster: Square Enix will include a special Limited Edition Poster in the first manufacturing run of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. A poster image is included in the asset link below. · [...]

Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Rock Band 3, and more.

Here's the first trailer for Square Enix's Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light, which appears to be some type of footracing game, in which four challengers jog across a vast landscape in a never-ending battle to see who can lose the most weight and become the lightest hero of all.

Wait, what? It's a throwback RPG for the DS, and this trailer shows off the game's exploration? Ah, that makes more sense. Plus, it explains why the new screenshots below show off heroes' levels and stats on the top screen. Wait, unless HP and AP actually mean hamstring points and ab power? We're so confused.

This trailer for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light introduces the game's "Crown System," which allows characters to change classes by changing hats. Each job includes its own skills, which players can then drag into their customizable Abilities menu.

Final Fantasy returns to the DS.

Square-Enix has a brand-new RPG for Nintendo's handheld.

It will likely come as no surprise that Square Enix recently published a press release announcing an English localization for Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. The DS RPG, which touts "beautiful picture book visuals and an easy to control battle system," and a setting which "goes back to the basics and origins of the Final Fantasy series," will come to the US on October 5, according to the game's official site. Europe will get the game sometime this Fall, but a release date hasn't been specified.

The game features a classic turn-based battle system with customizable commands, and a "Crown System" that allows players to change character classes at the drop of a ... well, a hat. Players can also team up with three of their friends to tackle dungeons cooperatively. Check out the first screens of the localized version of the game in the gallery below.

…And it's not another remake.