Open letter to Square Enix: Thanks for The After Years, now let’s see Before Crisis

Hi Square-Enix,

How’ve you been? Eidos take-over going well? I can’t wait to see Lara Croft in Kingdom Hearts.

Listen, I really want to thank you for the forthcoming Wii version of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. Really. I never buy cell phone games and don’t own an iPhone, so I was worried that you’d have put it on one of those portable systems and I’d never get to play it.

But you came through like a champ – choosing to release all of the episodes/chapters/segments of Final Fantasy IV: The After: Tsuki no Kikan on the Wii. I can’t wait to see what adventures Cecil and Rosa’s son Ceodore will get into, why the second Lunarian Moon is appearing in the sky again and how he, the new heroes and the returning heroes will once again save the world.

Rest assured – it’s a day-one purchase for me.

But – there’s always a “but” – I’m still troubled. Perplexed even.

Where’s a localized version of Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII?