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Quote (Samurai Bob @ 4th October 2007 20:45)

SWEET.

I think I'm okay with voice acting now, though I do think Golbez's field model doesn't look quite evil enough. I was also pretty surprised to hear lyrics added to the Theme of Love...

Awesome job Ronin, thanks for supplying us with all the subbed trailers!

You're welcome hun. I thought the lyrics were kind of cool. I'll be posting the translation for them too when I finish it next week.

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"Some fight for justice. Some fight for law . . .
. . .Cecil, what will you fight for?"
~KluYa

Here's a list of the new voice cast, from IGN. Someone also supplied notable voice roles from other games and TV shows as well:

http://ds.ign.com/articles/823/823567p1.html

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A big 3D facelift isn't the only update Final Fantasy IV is receiving in its trip to the DS. Square Enix is also adding voice acting to better tell one of the series' classic story lines. Today, the company announced the Japanese voice actor cast.

Square Enix is apparently planning on getting the voice job right. The list of previous work for the for the cast includes such big productions as Blood+, D.Gray-man, Saiyuuki, Galaxy Angel, Dragon Ball Z, Hajime no Ippo, and Naruto.

Here's the full cast:

Cecil: Shizuma Hidoshima
Rosa: Yuko Kaida
Kain: Koichi Yamadera
Gilbert: Ryo Horikawa
Rydia: Noriko aya
Palom & Porom: Rie Kugimiya
Yan: Tesshou Genda
Edge: Hiroya Ishimaru
Cid: Ichiro Nagai
Fusoya: Banjou Ginga
Tellah: Gorou Naya
Globez: Takeshi Kaga

With FFIV getting the full voice treatment, we can only assume the upcoming remakes of FFV and FFVI will follow. Suddenly, playing games you've played a few times before doesn't sound too bad.

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Shizuma Hidoshima
No information. It would seem IGN got the name wrong.
Cecil Harvey



Yuko Kaida
Dixie Clemets (Rumble Roses series)
Rosa Farrell



Koichi Yamadera
Various roles redubbing the voice of Eddie Murphy

Donald Duck (Disney animation, Kingdom Hearts)
Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Ryoga Hibiki (Ranma ½)
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid, Kingdom Hearts)
The Beast (Beauty and the Beast, Kingdom Hearts)
Genie (Aladdin, Kingdom Hearts)
Kibagami Jubei (Ninja Scroll)
Ryoji Kaji (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Togusa (Ghost in the Shell series)
Michael Jordon (Space Jam)
Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
Ed (Brave Fencer Musashiden)
Stitch (Lilo & Stitch, Kingdom Hearts II)
Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
Albedo Piazzolla (Xenosaga series)
Leonard (Drag-On Dragoon)
Cain Highwind



Ryo Horikawa
Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)
Heiji Hattori (Detective Conan)
E.G. Mine (Trigun)
Captain Falcon (Super Smash Bros. series)
Miktran (Tales of Destiny PlayStation 2 remake)
Gilbert Chris Von Muir



Noriko Shitaya
Kasumi Tomine (Alien Nine)
Maria (Final Fantasy II PlayStation remake)
Lydia of Mist



Rie Kugimiya
Mary Godwin (Xenosaga series)
Porom the Mysidian
Palom the Mysidian



Tesshou Genda
Various roles redubbing the voices of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Steven Seagal

Foghorn Leghorn (Looney Tunes franchise)
Tigger (Winnie the Pooh animation, Kingdom Hearts)
Wilbur (The Rescuers)
Rei (Urusei Yastura)
Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
Optimus Prime (Transformers)
Ryusaku (Akira)
Garfield (Garfield and Friends)
Batman (Batman: The Animated Series)
Tiesel Bonne (Mega Man Legends series)
Domino Walker (Cowboy Bebop)
Tantor (Tarzan)
Mace Windu (Star Wars series)
Dan Dastun (The Big O)
Azul (Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII)
Yang Fang Leiden



Hiroya Ishimaru
Hot Rod (Transformers)
Count Dracula (Demon Castle Dracula X: Rondo of Blood)
Koji Masuda (Ehrgeiz)
Lei Wulong (Tekken 5)
Edward "Edge" Geraldine



Ichiro Nagai
Jodo (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro)
Yoda (Star Wars series)
Cherry (Urusei Yatsura)
Mito (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)
Left Hand (Vampire Hunter D)
Happosai (Ranma ½)
Philoctetes (Hercules, Kingdom Hearts)
Cid Pollendina



Banjo Ginga
Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid series)
Tongpu (Cowboy Bebop)
Clayton (Tarzan, Kingdom Hearts)
Captain Blue (Viewtiful Joe series)
Major Zero (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
Reeve Tuesti (Final Fantasy VII series)
Fusuya



Goro Naya
Inspector Zenigata (Lupin III franchise)
Yupa (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)
Benson Cunningham (Snatcher)
Gordon Rosewater (The Big O)
Tella the Wise Man



Takeshi Kaga
Chairman Kaga (Iron Chef)
Souichiro Yagami (Death Note)
Golbeza

I only recognize Tesshou Genda from Tales of Destiny (he played Bruiser/Kongman), but I'm pretty unfamiliar with the rest of the voice actors. The VAs do sound pretty hot, with the exception of Cain, who sounds much deeper than I imagined him to sound. But otherwise, they sound almost exactly how I imagined them. I wonder how the English voice cast will sound.

This post has been edited by Zeromus_X on 5th October 2007 03:39

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Wow! Thanks for the info, ZX.

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"Some fight for justice. Some fight for law . . .
. . .Cecil, what will you fight for?"
~KluYa

Wow, I was really surprised with Kain's VA. Donald Duck? Michael Jordan? Stitch? And so on...

I'm worried about how the English will turn out, though. CSM's voice ideas seem pretty ideal for me.

And um...whenever I try to access the vid again, it says the user removed it. What happened? Youtube didn't delete it, did they?

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FFIVDS looks awesome, right? Especially the character scans. I mean, look at that CGI scan of Yang. You see it and you just think...badass. And then you look at his polka-dot pants, likely stolen from a Dr. Seuss book. And then you just...shiver.

Quote (Samurai Bob @ 5th October 2007 19:38)

Wow, I was really surprised with Kain's VA. Donald Duck? Michael Jordan? Stitch? And so on...

I'm worried about how the English will turn out, though. CSM's voice ideas seem pretty ideal for me.

And um...whenever I try to access the vid again, it says the user removed it. What happened? Youtube didn't delete it, did they?

Woops! Sorry about that, SB. I put the final one up and I forgot to tell everyone here.

Click here to see the finished version. Don't pay attention to the "200 million units" though, it was supposed to be "2 million" (honest mistake, really.)

If you want to download the video to watch on your computer or maybe your ipod or something, I've got the video on my website as well. Just right click and "save target as"

This post has been edited by Ronin on 6th October 2007 03:00

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"Some fight for justice. Some fight for law . . .
. . .Cecil, what will you fight for?"
~KluYa

Exciting new scans:

Cecil in Dark Knight Attire

CGI Dark Knight Cecil and Rosa

Before the battle with Rubicante...

A battle scene with Mother Bomb

CGI Yang

CGI Rydia

CGI Edge and Edward

Also, check out Namingway's new look in the lower-right corner. He looks like a rabbit now.

This post has been edited by Zeromus_X on 13th October 2007 19:08

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Uh oh. Edward has emo hair.

... he's always been pretty emo, though. "Spoony" just means "emo," after all. Well... kind of.

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Haha...yeah, he does look pretty emo. It probably would've been better if his hair were more pushed back.

Y'know, not long ago I didn't believe in Amano designs in 3D. But now, I'm looking at these, and they're just awesome. Yeah, I realize now that a good number of his designs are sweet, it's just that his artwork makes it look like emos in a Dr. Seuss book.

However, I'm still a little bugged by the fact that he puts polka dots on everything. If you look at Yang, you think, "Badass!", and then you look at his pants and shiver.

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FFIVDS looks awesome, right? Especially the character scans. I mean, look at that CGI scan of Yang. You see it and you just think...badass. And then you look at his polka-dot pants, likely stolen from a Dr. Seuss book. And then you just...shiver.

Quote (Samurai Bob @ 13th October 2007 18:23)

Haha...yeah, he does look pretty emo. It probably would've been better if his hair were more pushed back.

Y'know, not long ago I didn't believe in Amano designs in 3D. But now, I'm looking at these, and they're just awesome. Yeah, I realize now that a good number of his designs are sweet, it's just that his artwork makes it look like emos in a Dr. Seuss book.

However, I'm still a little bugged by the fact that he puts polka dots on everything. If you look at Yang, you think, "Badass!", and then you look at his pants and shiver.

You know, if I was a badass master monk, I'd wear smiley face pants just to confuse the enemy.

Also, Gilbert is not emo. That's not even an emo haircut. Edge has a more emo-cut than he does.

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"Some fight for justice. Some fight for law . . .
. . .Cecil, what will you fight for?"
~KluYa

A Spoony bard gone Emo. Wow.

Edward really reminds me of Kuja now

Quote (BanjoTheClown @ 13th October 2007 20:19)

A Spoony bard gone Emo. Wow. 

Spoony bard is the definition of Emo. The first sign that you're emo is that you sit around and play bad songs on an acoustic guitar.
**Cough** Lute **Cough**
The second sign is that you try to make out with a girl who is dumb enough to listen, and then end up pissing off her father.
You get bonus emo points if you actally have high standing in society, or money, and you still act like that.

I think Rydia looks awesome. This game is gonna be great!
I bought FFIII for DS so I could get an Idea about the mechanics of the game, and it's gonna be AWESOME!

Edit

Also, taking another look at Edge, he kind of looks a little emo, but he's got nothing on Edward. Honestly, when I saw the pic of Edge, I initially thought, "Wow, they made him realisitic enough that I could totally see him as Yuffie's brother now!"

This post has been edited by leilong on 14th October 2007 15:05

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If internal struggles were as enjoyable and glamorous as the self conflicted wars within video game characters, we would all be statues, reveling in perpetual self war. -Me

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lol @ emo Edward. It's so true. He looks all set for his first My Chemical Romance concert.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

We're just saying Edward looks emo because he's got the hair-brushed-over-one-eye, meloncholy-expressioned, while-my-guitar-gently-weeps, as-seen-in-so-many-MySpace-pics classic emo look down absolutely pat.

The hat's a new element to it, though.

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the day he is delivered.


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Man, I might be a straight male, but I dunno who looks the hottest: Rosa, Rydia, or Yang. These cutscenes look awesome, and the battle sprites are adequate. Man, Square-Enix really has my number with all of these remakes, it's sad.

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Quote (laszlow @ 15th October 2007 16:34)

Man, I might be a straight male, but I dunno who looks the hottest: Rosa, Rydia, or Yang. These cutscenes look awesome, and the battle sprites are adequate. Man, Square-Enix really has my number with all of these remakes, it's sad.

I'm a straight female, and I'm having the same dilemma.

Dark Knight Cecil looks so dark and yummy, too.

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Veni, vidi, dormivi.

I thought the contest for hotness was between Cecil, Kain, and Rosa at this point.

I worry for the future of our loins here, guys.

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well i wont go as far as you all... but the girls look amazing.
on the topic of edward, i dont think there is any way they could have possibly looked cool, so squenix figured 'lets just go all in on this one'

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and hey, i loved while my guitar gently weeps. great song

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Favorite Game : Final Fantasy X

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I can't see the pics, something wrong with comp, but i know that rydia is hte hottest, no matter what. this just proves that i am a hentai.

And now imagine our poor little emo Prince Edward speaking with Vegeta's voice. Ouch.

Also, Yang has Garfield's voice. That's gonna be cool ;)

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But I'm not the only one...

Quote (Silver_Zombie @ 17th October 2007 06:34)

And now imagine our poor little emo Prince Edward speaking with Vegeta's voice. Ouch.

Also, Yang has Garfield's voice. That's gonna be cool

That would be funnny. "I can just imagine edward going, "Kakarot, I will not lose to you! AHHHHHH!" and then edward turns super saiyan 4.... lol. also, the american dbz, or the japanese dbz vioce actor(s) for Vageta?

Garfield as in Garfield the movie, and Garfield the movie, a tail ot two kitties, for Garfield the cat, or the garfield cartoon thing they useed to show sunday morning on some channel a few years ago?

Quote (DR FF DS @ 17th October 2007 05:22)

Garfield as in Garfield the movie, and Garfield the movie, a tail ot two kitties, for Garfield the cat, or the garfield cartoon thing they useed to show sunday morning on some channel a few years ago?

Bill Murray did the voice of garfield in the movies, as you will see after Garfield's name in the post, it says

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(Garfield and Friends)

which is the old school cartoon. But it strikes me as odd that these are japanese names. I would be more inclined to believe that these are still based off video games if they're not obviously anime.

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Takeshi Kaga
Chairman Kaga (Iron Chef)
Souichiro Yagami (Death Note)
Golbeza

Ummm.... ZOMG!!!!!111!1Eleven!

Allez Cuisine!

Golbez's voice is being done by one of the geniusses behind bringing culinary arts into the main stream, even before it was fully realized! As a graduate of Culinary Arts school, I find this AWESOME!

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Goro Naya
Inspector Zenigata (Lupin III franchise)
Yupa (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)
Benson Cunningham (Snatcher)
Gordon Rosewater (The Big O)
Tella the Wise Man

Tella is being voiced by Inspector Zenigata? AND Gordon Rosewater? I really hope they give us subtitles instead of redubbing!

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Play me on Rock Band 2, GH-WT, or any other Xbox GH!
Xbox Gamertag-MeanJerry

Here's a scan that I haven't seen yet, that shows us the CGI versions of the twins: http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff4ds/propaganda/ff4ds31.jpg

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I can already feel my old fangirl self re-imerging from its resting place inside me... I haven't been this excited about a Final Fantasy game since VIII was released back in '99! I've already created a collage of characters with the new CGI images, and will indefinitely be making some nifty avatars. Not to mention I have to buy a DS. I even have my fiancé excited about this. And I sent my Kain-crazy sister the wallpaper that's on the official site.

I've been saying for YEARS that FFIV over all the games in the franchise deserved a remake. I haven't actually played it for GBA because it seemed like a port more than anything (I could be wrong).

IV had all this potential, and even though it got shafted was still a masterpiece. And now they're bringing it back and adding new story elements! IGN: "The game will feature new episodes, allowing players to get deeper acquainted with the storyline." And that's what interests me more than the 3D models, CGI cutscenes, voice acting, vocal version of the Theme of Love (which was done before by Risa Ohki on the Love Will Grow and Pray CDs, but this will probably be redone with an English version). I loved this game for what mattered most, the characters and story (at least that's what mattered back in the day) ^.^

OK, FF4 confession time.

Am I the only one who really dislikes Theme of Love? It gives me diabetes. I also don't think it's that great of a song in general.

I'd prefer a vocal version of... um... "Red Wing's Theme"! They could make it all slow and arranged and meloncholy. Don't you think that would be better?

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Some ghost of me might greet my son
the day he is delivered.


Eternal Sleep, Track 1-1: The Blue Planet

It certainly wouldn't have been my first pick to make the vocal theme, but it's not a terrible song. Personally the overworld theme is the best choice. I've heard two versions of that done with vocals and it's truly beautiful.

Quote (MandaCookie @ 7th November 2007 22:49)

Personally the overworld theme is the best choice.

Same here, but it's been overdone as you say.

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Some ghost of me might greet my son
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I was pleasantly surprised to see "spoony bard" while playing through War of the Lions of PSP, so I'm really hoping that they'll keep in the release for US. IIRC, they kept it in the GBA version. I hope they just announce the release date soon even though I know it will probably be mid to late 2008.

And, the first few times I watched the recent trailers of the game, I kept wondering which twin was which...

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You can finally tell the twins apart a bit better, I know their twins, but man.

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Kel'Thuzad: She is persistent. Reminds me of you, death knight.

Arthas:Shut up you damned ghost.

-Warcraft III Kel'thuzad comparing Arthas and Sylvanas Windrunner.

FFIV is my favorite FF game I've played so far so hopefully this will turn out to be a great success.

About the Yang and Rydia pictures I didn't see them can u send me a URL please?