A wonderful ds exclusive final fantasy experience that no true fan of the series should go without playing.

User Rating: 9 | Hikari no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden DS
By cliffangel | Review Date:
Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light is one of those games that once played you will learn to love. From the start of this game, you have the ability to name all your characters, which is a plus for those players who like their characters to have a sense of their personality. You start off as a young boy in the village of Horne, who must go to the castle because its your birthday, and you are now considered an adult. On your way there, however, you find out that the princess has been captured and you are asked by his highness to rescue her. What seems again as a simple rescue mission, turns into something of an epic save the world proportion. On route to save the princess, you meet a young mage and a loyal female knight, who along with the princess herself join forces to combat an evil witch that originally kidnapped the princess. After that dramatic battle, your a bathed in the light of a "crystal" which dubbs you all as bonafied heroes and tells you of the worlds impending doom.

The crystals grant you power in the form of "crowns" which once placed in the head of that character, gives them the ability of that particular crown. It kind of relates to the job change system from final fantasy tactics. A very popular system I might add. On a different note, mp has been totally destroyed, leaving in its wake, action points, which is in the form of five empty orbs under the characters hit points. Each ap slot goes up by one on every turn or you can always boost, which is a defense system that allows you to recover two action points instead of one. Learning abilities are also a little different. Enemies drop what are called gems, which can be used to power up crowns to learn different moves specific to that job; magic however is bought from stores and equipped on to a character in one of six ability slots. This concept is pretty good and allows for cool customization. Once you get the hang of the "crown and action points" system is time to go on with the story. Basically all the kingdoms have fallen into one of the seven deadly sins. Greed, Sloth, Rage and etc. At the root of all this chaos their are dark lords that you have to beat the crap out of until your final showdown with the darkest of dark ones.

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is a charming game, with story book type visuals, cute characters, and a classic story of good vs evil. All these points make this game a winner, the only draw back i saw, was that at times it was necessary to level grind a little too much, being that the mosters were just really harder at times than they should have been.

Final Fantasy: The 4 Warriors of Light 9 out of 10

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