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Published: 2011-09-08 06:10:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 3381; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 113
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Description The colored version of the image, with the logo...it's been heavily filtered...but the original version can be found here: [link]

This is pretty close to what I had imagined at he beginning for the layout...but truth be told...I'd have liked to have made an animated title screen mock up.

I just don't have the video software I'm familiar with to do that. :-/

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So my take of Cecil's Dark Knight armor based off the new sprites from the PSP version. In a pose similar to Kain's for the title art of the game.

I got the Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection for my PSP a while back...not going to lie...I got it for the outfit for Cecil...because there was a point I wanted to have every special outfit I could for my characters. I did plan to play it. It was a Final Fantasy title...and I knew it was probably better than FFIII...and I was right.

Final Fantasy IV's Theme Of Love is the one thing that I probably logged in a good amount of my gameplay time listening to. I really enjoy the song...and it is probably my favorite for a romance theme in the series now.

Don't believe me? Then check it out. I recommend listening to the first one. It's by far the best rendition of it I've found.
Also the song I had on repeat while I worked on this.
Piano Collections "Demo" ver.: [link]
With Lyrics ver.: [link]


This is only going to spoil the beginning of the game, but I felt Cecil fighting between loyalty to his country by being a Dark Knight and his own morals was a great story point...though...I wasn't too thrilled to find out that he was engaged to a white mage that took a good while to get in the party.
"Cecil, I'm worried for you, are you going to make this journey on your own?"
"Rosa, I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to you."
DUDE! WHITE MAGE! TAKE HER IN THE PARTY! SHE CAN HEAL YOU!
"But Cecil...I..."
"Rosa, my mind is made up, I want you safe."
SHIT IS TOTALLY GOING TO GO DOWN HERE. ESCORT HER TO SAFETY. TAKE HER INTO THE PARTY. LET HER HEAL YOU.

I was fine with it when he was a Dark Knight because you stock up on potions and spam Soul Eater, you're good to go. Paladin Cecil has some cure spells...but Rosa is far more useful than he is...someone with a potion is far more useful than he is when he tries to heal someone. >.>;;
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Comments: 17

TheArtFaerie111 [2014-03-06 04:19:17 +0000 UTC]

Nice job

IV is pretty much my obsession right now...

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soullguyy [2012-12-24 22:50:23 +0000 UTC]

epic AND beautiful!

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PhilWiesner In reply to soullguyy [2013-02-11 09:07:43 +0000 UTC]

It's a little late, but thank you for the kind words.

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soullguyy In reply to PhilWiesner [2013-02-11 21:09:50 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome ^^

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bunbby [2011-09-26 07:50:02 +0000 UTC]

Cecil~~!!nicedrawing!

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PhilWiesner In reply to bunbby [2011-09-29 04:41:13 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

Sorry for the late response!

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Youri-Kamachii [2011-09-08 16:05:30 +0000 UTC]

Love the Dark Knight class; especially in this game and X-2!

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PhilWiesner In reply to Youri-Kamachii [2011-09-08 18:11:54 +0000 UTC]

I was all sorts of jazzed when they added it to Tactics...but it took a lot of work to get it...and I accidentally deleted my save data.

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Youri-Kamachii In reply to PhilWiesner [2011-09-09 01:13:22 +0000 UTC]

For some reason, I manage to accidentally save over all my good FF files too:
Happened twice with X, once with X-2 [not a big deal though], once with VII, and once with IV [it was my friend's copy too >_>].

But anyways, I've always liked Dark Knight / Warrior, Black Mage, Berserk, and Ninja. Explains me calling myself a "nitch" on the 'forum that mustn't be talked about'.

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PhilWiesner In reply to Youri-Kamachii [2011-09-10 01:53:34 +0000 UTC]

It's so annoying, right!?!

50 some odd hours of fine tuning, leveling, and side quests...BAM, gone.

I just wish they had a 'recently saved over data' part to save screens...like limited to 5 save files or something. :/

If that place was still around, I wonder what they would have to say about the newer games...we were united for speculation and being fans of the series, but it was the competitive play that drove a wedge into everything. I miss SCU for the good times I had there, but when I think if the casuals being mocked by the hardcore players and how the mods had their favorites in the members...I'm glad it's gone.

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Youri-Kamachii In reply to PhilWiesner [2011-09-10 15:42:02 +0000 UTC]

YES!
Especially in FFX when I was almost in "God" mode then I played another earlier file and saved over that. I had a petrified-like weapon for Kimahri too, and now that I saved over it, I can't find the darn thing to this day. [I refuse to look at walkthroughs for that game specifically]

Same here. Especially the mods having their favorites. To this day, I still haven't talked to over half the people from that site like I used to. And some of them I was REALLY close to.
Plus I gave up on the series as a whole anyway. I'm just focusing on my favorite characters like Mina and Tira. So it is for the better that the site's gone.

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PhilWiesner In reply to Youri-Kamachii [2011-09-10 17:59:19 +0000 UTC]

-.-;; I did that by miatake with a hacked file I had of FFVII. Vincent and Sephiroth are apparently linked together in the data, which means the Masamune blade Sephiroth uses is actually a non equipable gun for Vincent. I hacked in the Masamune as his "gun" and every time he fired, a slash mark appeared on the enemy, as well as the sound. It was so cool! ...and I saved over it. D:

This made me especially careful in mybplaythrough for FFIV, where I saved before each quest and power leveled the crap out of myself, just to be sure. O.o

As vor SCU, I feel it was a lot of young adults trying to find themselves, myself included. I left the predecessor to the site because it devolved into the same thing SCU became. But hey, I learned some interesting things and met some cool people as a result.

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Youri-Kamachii In reply to PhilWiesner [2011-09-13 16:32:32 +0000 UTC]

Too bad we save over our FF files. And what you meant earlier was an Autosave file, which they do need.

Meh, enough about SCU. Do miss the good memories though. :/

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PhilWiesner In reply to Youri-Kamachii [2011-09-14 16:06:17 +0000 UTC]

You know, right after making that comment to you...I started playing Deus Ex...it has that feature...makes it reallllllly convenient. O_o

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Youri-Kamachii In reply to PhilWiesner [2011-09-15 17:35:35 +0000 UTC]

I think Resonance of Fate has that feature too. Though I just watch my friend play that. XP

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PhilWiesner In reply to Youri-Kamachii [2011-09-29 04:43:07 +0000 UTC]

Sorry for the late response...been interesting times...kinda left the computer on while I used the screen for other things...>.>;;

So...Resonance of Fate...RPG I take it?

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Youri-Kamachii In reply to PhilWiesner [2011-10-02 22:58:03 +0000 UTC]

It's fine. And yep! My friend likes it way more than I do. XP

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