Shamelessly stolen off NeoGAF.

http://www.rpgsite.net/news/273.html

Final Fantasy IV: The After could be making it's way to Western Shores according to several sources close to Square-Enix.

For some time now there has been a buzz that The After, a direct sequel to Final Fantasy IV following the son of Cecil and Rosa - Ceodore - would be making its way to Western Final Fantasy fans in some way, shape or form.

In Japan The After is a mobile phone game released in episodes, and sees most of the cast of the original Final Fantasy IV return to assist the new characters. The game takes place some time after the original, and makes use of the tweaked engine from Final Fantasy IV Advance.

The game features a 'band' ability which allows characters to join together for more powerful attacks, similar to twin magic in the original.

The buzz surrounding The After has been reignited by comments by Producer Takashi Tokita, also responsible for most of the FF4 universe games - FF4, FF4Advance, FF4 DS and the After. When asked by a fan if they would ever remake FF4 -again- for next gen consoles, Tokita replied:

"We just remade it, so it's a bit of a stretch... [Laughs] Currently the sequel, FINAL FANTASY IV the After: Tsuki no Kikan is available for mobile phones in Japan. We'll do our best to make this game available for our overseas audiences as well!

These comments made us at RPGSite take action, and we've since been in contact with several sources at Square-Enix. Our gut feeling was that these games running on a GBA engine would be perfect for the DS - but our sources indicate that the remake will not be for a handheld console, but in fact for the Nintendo Wii.

It's evident from Tokita's comments that an announcement is coming. Based on the word of our insiders, could the episodic mobile game be coming to Wii Ware, retaining it's episodic format? We'll bring more as we get it.

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Seems like a stretch to me, unless they're thinking of going the WiiWare route, but getting more of the greatest RPG ever is hardly a bad thing. And while I know there aren't too many posters from Japan on this site, does anyone have any impressions for The After that they'd care to share?

hey, id buy it.

It'd be great to see it on the Wii, and it has more chances on WiiWare. May be a test to see how well Final Fantasy will sell on Wii?

If this is a mobile phone game, any info on if they're redoing the graphics? If so I'd be interested. I'm assuming if it's not WiiWare it will?

And if it's just WiiWare w/ original graphics, well... meh.

ZOMG!

Its not that i dont like to play FF-games, trust me i do. Some big cash i gave to them, indeed.

But Square-Enix is milking so much i feel sick. Its now over 40 FF-related games. Including every mobil, Nintendo wonderswan, gameboy, PC, Playstation, mmx- format.

Not another port! why do ppl keep buying these things? boycott so these clowns stop with the ports and rehashes

It's a port of a game that we never got in the first place. Seems acceptable to me.

This is all I've got on the matter, but since we're talking Squeenix and the Wii, it'd probably just be a straight port.

If it's on Wiiware they better release it altogether (not episodic - this isn't a cellphone so they can't get away with that) and touch up the graphics if they must.

Granted I theorized this myself...DS sounds plausible but they could put it on Wiiware for minimal effort.

an episodic FFIV sequel Wiiware title would be kinda cool... well at least untill it pops up on Live and PSN... then the game wouldn't matter anymore because it went multiplat.. :P