Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
With FINAL FANTASY: The 4 Heroes of Light, the FINAL FANTASY series is rendered anew as an epic storybook adventure by the creators of the FINAL FANTASY III and FINAL FANTASY IV Nintendo DS remakes. Players…
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is an adventure developed by Matrix Software, released 29 October 2009 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 35 hrs to finish.
What Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is an adventure game developed by Matrix Software and released in 2009. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
With FINAL FANTASY: The 4 Heroes of Light, the FINAL FANTASY series is rendered anew as an epic storybook adventure by the creators of the FINAL FANTASY III and FINAL FANTASY IV Nintendo DS remakes. Players will enter a beautiful fairy-tale world featuring illustrations and character designs by acclaimed character designer Akihiko Yoshida (FINAL FANTASY III for DS, FINAL FANTASY XII).
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is the 115th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles - The Crystal Bearers in 2009. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 35 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 50 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light launched on 29 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins and Left 4 Dead 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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