Watch Out for Fireballs! 165: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (Part 1)

An unloved sequel to a beloved game makes for some rough play, as the FF4 formula wears out its welcome. While Takashi Tokita was working to update Final Fantasy IV for the Nintendo DS, he felt a longing to return to the Blue Planet and revisit the story of Cecil and the gang. What resulted was a strange plan: to release a sequel to an almost 20 year old game in episodic installments on Japanese mobile phones. By the time it arrived in America, nobody quite knew what to make of it, and neither do we. Support Watch Out for Fireballs! Links: More Man Than You Can Handle | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult Swim - YouTube Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin - YouTube Golden Sun TV ad (full) - YouTube