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Is there a sequel coming? Is it one of those mobile games we missed? And what the hell kind of crap name is "The After Years" anyway?
Yesterday the keen eyes of the staff of Siliconera found a trademark for "The After Years” registered by Square Enix on the European Patent and Trademark database. The name reminds us of Final Fantasy IV: The After, a Japanese mobile game we gave up hope of ever seeing. Could this be related?
And now in an update, they've found that the U.S. database has a similar entry. Can we get excited about this? Is this going to be a DS game? Or an iPhone game? What do you think?
[Update: The guys at C3 are saying that they've heard that this is a WiiWare (and presumably a Xbox Live and PSN) game. Grain of salt, people.]
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9:20 AM on 02.24.2009
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Man. That would be kind of cool, this image of what this is that I have in my head.
^_^
This is the best thing possible (short of an FF7 remake for me)
I kind of hope this involves a domestic release of the cell phone game because it looked pretty sweet...
For what it's worth, the guys at 1up (or maybe former guys now. Can't remember) also heard this is going to be a WiiWare title.
the not college years.
This is also relevant to my interests, I shall make sure to pass my Unblinking Eye over this direction in the coming months.
Here I was worried I'd have to move to Japan and get a cell phone to play this...