Final Fantasy Explorers, a game that wasn't shown at E3 2014

Meanwhile, in Japan, this appered in a games magazine. It might be fun, but there is some stupid looking bloom lighting in the screenshots.

There's also Fantasy Life, which also has multi-player action and was shown during the Treehouse sessions.

One major thing that more than justifies Theatrhythm Final Fantasy's existence

I've already said I don't think much of the game based on the demo I played but I have to say the concept is a great one.

The reason of course is that the most of these RPGs that anybody ever plays is the music. Someone could say that Final Fantasy VI is the best game ever made and yet, they may not have even completed the game — but they would almost certainly have spent countless hours listening to the soundtrack over and over.

Maybe they even went so far as to play the soundtrack through Vib Ribbon on the PS1! Many would probably do that and now they have a full game available to them that gives them that chance.

Trying out the Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance demos

Demos for these two games were released on the eShop recently so I decided to have a go on them.

The daftly named Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is similar to Elite Beat Agents or Looney Tunes Cartoon Concerto except you're not tapping the actual circles which appear on the top screen, you're tapping the lower screen which makes it kind of like a tablet or something. To be blunt it's less fun than the two DS titles I mentioned. It's also going to be DLC'd to death after it releases so I'm going to sit this one out and delete it off my SD card.

The pretentiously named Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance has the irritating little shit from The World Ends With You, a backwards controlled camera with no option to change; jumps mapped to B and attacks mapped to A also with no option to change, so I deleted this waste of space off my SD card immediately.

The first three American releases of Final Fantasy games on Virtual Console and a European's possible confusion

So now as of two days ago the original versions of Final Fantasy 1, 4 and 6 have been released on the European Virtual Console in their American forms of 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Those versions never got released here before so I'm trying to imagine a confused misinformed European trying to write reviews about them. I can imagine amusing sentences like:

"Final Fantasy 3 is completely different to the DS version!"

and

"for some reason they took out the extra dungeons the GBA versions had"

We never had to deal with the numbering confusion with the official releases in Ireland until now when we can experience the confusion for the first time ever.