Well, it was inevitable that Final Fantasy IV DS would see a stateside release, but it's still nice to hear date and details officially confirmed by Square. We can now mark our calendars for July 22nd, although there was no mention of Japanese voice option (I'm guessing there won't be one) or episodes of Final Fantasy IV: The After. Although I have to admit curiosity about the latter, I'm happy enough to see the game itself, which looks like a solid remake.

 

A  few small changes have been made from the Japanese version to the US that we currently are aware of. The ability switching system that was known as Decant will be known as the Augment system in the US version. Also, Rydia has a summon that you can play through as a little mini-game called Pochika, but this also gets renamed stateside as Whytkin. Just some little here and theres, although if you can read Japanese and did a side by side comparison I'm sure there would be many more to be found.

 

To hype yourself up until April (as if you needed any help), go back and check out secret superstar Dale North's hands-on of the Japanese version way back from last year's Tokyo Game Show.

 

[Via Siliconera -- Thanks Adam!]