Screenshot edit by Syn 
Thou shalt not create a game world and then 20 years later, create a (bad) sequel to said game that changes thy canon for all the long-time fans who have stuck by thee…
So you might have heard that the Final Fantasy IV sequel, now called The After Years, is being translated and ported to a WiiWare format. Of course S/E couldn’t let this monstrosity die overseas… they now have to port a pay-per chapter DLC version to the Wii-playing Americans.
I am a screenshot-a-holic. In game, if something cool (or remotely interesting) happens, I’m there, slamming the PrtScr button. Or if I’m standing around waiting for group members, I’ll often pose my character and take a few shots. That makes for a large gallery of screens over the years!
Some of them are funny… interesting.. inspiring… or mundane. They span across a number of games I’ve played — though the majority of them will certainly be from Guild Wars.
So without further ado, I present the very first Screenshot Saturday… with my very first screenshot I ever took from Guild Wars. This is the first incarnation of my Elementalist, Ben — he was later re-made when I restarted to play alongside of Syn’s Leona character.
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This screenshot was taken on May 1, 2005. I know I had played GWs before this date, but this was probably when I figured out how to take sreenshots! Woe to the screenshot folder!
Note that Pre-Searing Ascalon had 157 American Districts! Don’t see that everyday! 
Sorry. But somethings should never get past the drawing board.
THANK THE LIGHT! The so-called cell phone sequel of FFIV released the last piece of the pay-per-part story.
This disgrace to the universe of Final Fantasy IV has completed its final installment. Now the fans of the original (true) game can shoot it with the Super Canon (canon… get it?) and put it out of it’s writhing, cliched and plot-mess misery.
Want some spoilers?
Golbez fans! Theobez dies! Sorry.
Kain fans! Kain dumps the Dragoons for the Red Wings. That’s right. Everyone’s favorite Dragoon… isn’t. Anymore. Send hate mail to: ttokita@ffivdeafter.com
I wouldn’t want to face down all those angry Kain fans, personally.
And the final boss of the game? “The Creator.” Well.. it’s.. uh… Necron. Or Lavos. Or… Zeromus… or… well. We don’t know what the heck happened there. But it’s stupid. The even the theory behind it is stupid (from what I gather) — advanced life form (non-Lunar) puts Crystals around to study life… and now decides to destroy said life for no particular reason? Right. Anger management class… plzthxbai.
Personally, this is my theory:
The Creator Boss = T.Tokita
T.Tokita: “I make all Crystal. I scatter Crystal around there for recording other civilizations. The record is already enough. I collect all Crystal and destroy any coherent plot or canon within FFIV universe.”
That is certainly the most evil of all.
May this attempt to milk FFIV now die and rest in pieces. Many of them. So many of them that this spew never finds its way to English translation.
Oh… and Happy Holidays! I’ll have happier things to talk about later. Promise.
Information curtsy of our Japanese friend Roundog… who has been keeping us informed all the way down this so painful journey of FFIV fandom.
