Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

**A Robot Bit Me** · 12 Oct 2010, 07:09 PM

Figured it out. So, when you pull up the menu, you have two options: Ability and Item. And to actually use an Ability, you, uh, choose Item, and select your Cure spellbook in its owner's equipment screen. The Ability option is only for arranging and equipping Abilities, you see.

Hoo boy. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

**Anal Kaboom** · 12 Oct 2010, 09:28 PM

I really don't like that you can't choose your target. in a battle and something about how over simplified it is irks me, but i do like the difficulty and that you can actually see the difference in armor on your character. Im gonna give this game another chance but i don't really see myself actually finishing it.

**Finch** · 12 Oct 2010, 11:50 PM

I'm pretty prepared for it being kind of weird old-school/strange design decisions. I can love a game on charm alone.

**A Robot Bit Me** · 13 Oct 2010, 08:37 AM

There are some weird design choices that aren't even old school-based, though, like the day-to-night cycle being time-based and not step-based like the NES RPGs it's trying to imitate. This makes it impossible to stop and listen to the daytime version of the overworld song, which I would very much like to do!

Other than that, seems like another pretty good Matrix remake, this one of a NES game that never existed. I just can't believe how far they've fallen from the slick FFIII design (double tap an enemy to attack it, double tap your character to block; the game knows what you're getting at) to:

HOW TO HAVE SOMEONE IN YOUR PARTY CURE IF THEY ARE NOT HOLDING A CURE BOOK ALREADY:

1. Open menu
2. Select the character with Cure.
3. Open Item menu.
4. Select Cure
5. Select Give, then the character without Cure.
6. Hit X to open character select window (no cycling around with shoulder buttons like every RPG since shoulder buttons).
7. Select the character you gave Cure to.
8. Select Cure book.
9. Use on party member.
10. Give back to original owner.
11. Back out of item menu.
12. Highlight original owner.
13. Open Ability menu.
14. Highlight an empty skill slot.
15. Re-equip Cure.
16. Back out of Ability menu.
17. Back out of main menu.

Why is there no Auto-Heal? Chrono Cross that shit.