I feel this way too much. I first played it when I was ten, and absolutely fell in love with it. I've literally bought every port of it, just to show my love for this beautiful game.
@@beerious8392 Also my first Final Fantasy title, played it soon after it came out, so over 30 years ago (yikes!). Arguably FF6 is probably a better title overall, but FF4 is still my favorite just based on the story and my nostalgia. Also a bit weird in that I had a NES for many years but never played the NES Final Fantasy until much later on, so FF4 is the one I always go back to.
Nice video. While I still consider Final Fantasy 4 to be a good game, I can understand if in today's day and age some people don't want to play it because they find it "too basic"; especially when they are plenty of other games they can look to for their "classic Final Fantasy fix" or "JRPG fix".
Playing FF 4 to me is a lot like listening to real old school roots blues music. I can see its influence on everything modern that I enjoy but I can completely understand if someone doesnt wanna sit around and listen to an old blues tune.
There is one detail every single remake of FFVI fails get right, including this one. In the original version of the game during his scriped battle, Golbez (and Zemus later) take almost no damage from the Fire3, Ice3, etc. That's why Tellah gets desperate and casts Meteo, which goes through his armor and does a full 9999 damage to him. Every single remake they've done have missed this detail, so while the combat dialogue conveys this, the actual numbers you see do not.
Doing a playthrough of the Pixel Remaster as we speak it definitely has a lot of replay value and this is coming from someone who didnt like RPGs growing up
I plan on playing through each main series games since I pretty much played seven and up and also four much later in life but it's my favorite series. Great video dude.
13:08 the king isn’t being mind controlled, the king you first see is the water fiend Cagnazzo in disguise. 14:16 Golbez didn’t summon him, as far as I know he attacks your ship because he wants Rydia
For me its the best in the entire FF series even without the nostalgica glasses, since i indeed played it in 1992/93 on the SNES as my first FF. It has the best story and story is king in Final Fantasy - or lets say, it had the best story that i would enjoy and have fun with the kind of stories i like and prefere. In which FF was the protagonist also the evil guy? And which game you know had a better redemption story? The first part of this game is just a masterpiece in story telling and it does not even needed CGI. Also, only here you meet Golbez who is basicly Final Fantasy's Darth Vader and closely releated to the protagonist of the story. Very enchanting music scores and world building, very fast combat, too. The best game, every year.
The mechanics are solid and while theres no job system in place each character has their own strengths and weaknesses and thanks to the designers you always have a balanced party. But what really sets this game apart is the story. Even though it gets dark( very dark sometimes) you build up emotional investment in each character. Even the simple charms like your spoony bard running and hiding every time he gets hurt gives the character depth that connects the story to the gameplay. While you loose some characters and spoiler save most of them in the end. You still see how the world is changed by your actions and how those you cant save impacts the story.
I played ff7 for the first time two weeks ago and loved i it. Now I’m looking for another one to play and I’m choosing between 4 or 9 but this video helped me to choose. Thank you!
I appreciate your playthrough! I'm glad you finally had a chance to play through the game. Watching this playthrough makes me long for the original SNES FF2. I played that game A LOT as a young teenager. The one thing I miss from the SNES version was the original translated dialogue. It was quirky at times, but I thought it added to the story quite a bit. I felt that the cleaned up dialogue of the PR version takes away from some of the experience of the original. They took a lot of liberties with the updated dialogues and dumbed down some of it, which is unfortunate. I was especially upset that the PR version messes up much of the dialogue leading up to the final battle, including the second most iconic line in the game (behind "you spoony bard", of course), where Cecil in the original proclames "Zeromus!... for all the people of earth... I will destroy you!" The PR's rendering of "Zeromus! I won't lose! I...can't!" is extremely weak compared to the original. Also, as mentioned in other comments, toward the start of the game in the PR version, the king gives Cecil a "bomb ring", which kind of gives away the secret! I liked that in the original SNES, he just received an innocuous-sounding "Package", which then "automatically opens" as soon as he and Kain enter Mist.
The final fantasy 4 3D remake is such a cool upgrade to a game that is already a classic jrpg. It’s also pretty tough, probably one of the tougher final fantasies on a casual playthrough, which is a nice change of pace for the series.
Looking at this now: did you use a colour filter to saturate the colours of the video footage more, or did it come out that way when recording? I've been playing on Switch and I can't recall it ever looking quite this saturated.
I used an elgato capture card for some of the footage and it came out more saturated compared to using the default PS5's capture card, so it was definitely due to the recording, it's not that saturated in game :)
Before watching I think the thing that made ffiv so great was that it was (imo) the first time Square got both combat and story telling right. The remakes help i-iii, but iv did them both right the first time.
Honestly - the extra dungeons and content in each of the games that had them were pretty bad. They were clearly tacked on and added little to nothing to the experience. I don't mind that they didn't port them. Like in FF1 on the GBA - even with a patch that brings the game balance more in line with the NES, you can either have a balanced experience through the main story or you can become ridiculously overpowered by doing the side content while it's relevant. In FFIV, the extra dungeons come so late, and the inability to change party members was clearly not part of the original design - I understand if people are bummed about their exclusion and prefer versions of the games that have the extra content, but if you haven't played FFIV before, the Pixel Remaster is the way to go. (That or the 3D Steam version.)
You go to the Tower of Zot after giving Kane the earrh crystal. Babel comes after going to the underworld after getting Kane and Rosa back in the Tower of Zot.
These achievements seem fun, even the bestiary I played the gba version of this but didnt do any of the extra stuff, it was fun but not too replayable really, at least the music was awesome Id like to see what you think of ff5, probably the most replayable final fantasy
i just wanted to say hiding in frame time 1:11, and would not think people would run into that yeah ok, FFX sorry FFVI was the best one ever created. that all i have to say , also the video was good
Yeah, I really like FFVI as well, but then there is VII, VIII, IX, X, and XII . . . it's hard for me to pick, because I enjoyed them all so much. I think XII might be my favorite, but I really haven't played some of the others in years, and I haven't played FFVII Remake yet . . . though it is in the que.
I never played FFIV on SNES back in the day so I don't have any nostalgia for it. I've gone back and played the GBA and DS versions over the years and found them... fine? The game being so rigid on party composition just and limited customisation just makes me feel like I'm mashing the confirm button for 20 hours. And the byzantine augment system did nothing to help that. Square more than fixed that in FFV though, oh boy. Slaps you with all the job customisation you can handle in the early to mid game. If you want to play an optimised cheesy party of bluemagic wielding rapid fire ninjas, you can. If you want to roleplay suboptimal thematic classes for each character, you can (Galuf is clearly a mystic knight who can use Gaia. Faris is a Theif who can summon (Syldra!), Butz Redmage/bard, Lenna is a Whitemage/Time Mage) or just use whichever sprites look cool (Lenna's monk, Kriles beserker, Butz' dancer etc). You're always making choices and adjustments that really matter.
The pixel remasters are nice for graphics but for gameplay and items the PS1 version is the best and for the after years the Wii ware version is the best
@@sunderwirethe music is bland and forgettable outside of boss music, the combat is stupidly easy, and the story has horrible pacing, is full of plot holes and is shallow af
I originally played the SNES version and one part of the game I think was MUCH better was when you’re sent to Mist, the king didn’t give you a bomb ring, it’s just an innocuous package, and is just called “package” in the inventory. It make it a lot more shocking when the bomb burst out, and better contextualizes Cecil’s reaction. They keep calling it a bomb ring in newer translations, which is a real shame. It gives it away
Funnily enough, while this is undoubtedly a good game, I played FF4 and FF2 around the same time as each other on PS1 (I'd first played FF6 on the SNES, and of course already played FF7), and actually ended up enjoying FF2 more. They're definitely built a similar structure to each other, but I had a lot of fun customizing my FF2 cast with some early game grinding to make their stats and abilities fit different rolls so they'd continue to develop in those direction over the course of the game. And only having one rotating guest party member felt like the perfect balance of that kind of style, so you still had a core to work off of. Also, FF6's cast rotating felt better because it was typically a result of different parties going on different adventures instead of the main character constantly gaining and dropping traveling companions. ...FF4 feels like a D&D campaign with too many scheduling conflicts, the DM having to come up with more and more outrageous excuses for the party members to get split up and swapped out (which has it's own comical charm, but gets tiring with all the fake-out deaths, like it was specifically intentionally aping FF2's actual character deaths all over the place thinking about it after the fact). I actually kind of dropped my original FF4 playthrough mid-to-late-way to play FF2 to completion before returning to finish FF4.
Definitely in my top 3 FF games for story, especially when I played it at release and there were no guides, or internet to look up clues that I can remember. I do remember getting Nintendo Power and hoping there were going to be tips and tricks for games I was playing at the time. Thanks for the memories :).
Ahh I love a good FF4 commentary. I'm biased, as it is my personal favorite in the series! Hope to one day see you tackle the DS/PC version and compare the two and will eagerly be watching your other Final Fantasy reteospectives! The thought bubble feature in the 3d version is perhaps my favorite addition of all time and I find it adds SO much in the way of immerson. Would love to one day hear your thoughts on Interlude and After Years as well one day ❤
I've only played the North American SNES release - the version in which the difficulty was decreased for North American gamers at the time. I enjoyed it for the most part but had a lot of trouble on the last two dungeons. Is the Pixel Remaster based on this easier North American version, or the original Super Famicom/GBA/PSP difficulty?
It’s based off the original SNES version but Pixel Remaster games have some tweaks/adjustments make the game feel a bit more modern, so they’re kind of their own version
I beat the pixel remaster of IV a couple weeks back. It is definitely more of a challenge than the US SNES version. Lunar Subterrane and the Crystal Palace are fairly challenging in the early 40s. What I did was take multiple runs to clear out all of the chests with the end game gear (enter the dungeon, fight every single encounter, get to a chest, fight the monster in the box, equip the new gear, teleport out, buy up all the elixirs I could afford, repeat). It took a few play sessions to do over the course of a week, but about midway through I was strong enough to use the cursor memory, auto battle, and auto battle continuation settings to turn off the brain and just use a map guide to get to where I wanted to go without paying much attention to the actual random encounters.
Question: Final Fantasy IV has Lunarians in it? I'm kind of disappointed buying the 3D remake because they didn't include the extra campaign. Now I have thoughts buying it or not. I'm just here for the Lunarians.
When you're talking about the extra campaign do you mean The Lunar Ruins or the extra story sequel? Because if you're looking for the Lunar ruins unfortunately it's only available in the PSP port The Complete Collection and FF4 Advance. If you're looking for more information on the Lunarians themselves, I can confidently say The After Years 3d version should fulfill your craving at least in part as they are featured more there. Hope this helps!
FFIV is like the only game that u don’t have to think to hard about. No JP or AP. No buying skills or spells. No job shifting. No character changes. Just Exp and Cecil/Rydia soul crushing enemies. (There is that thing at level 70 on but pffft) It’s the game ppl should play first imo
I grew up with FFIV and lived it at the time but FFIV is clearly the least replayable of the NES/SNES games and one of the games that aged the poorest Story Wise. The only element I think that stood above the rest was the music
Game just feels old when compared not only to other jrpgs series but Also to other games of the franchise,i finished final fantasy 2,Crisis Core and final fantasy tactics loved them all i am currently playing ff5 and it's great/underrated,all those games are better than 4 due to customization,better battle system and even story.
I'm glad you liked it. I've been into RPGs since I was a kid back in 1990. My first was Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior in America), which led me to Final Fantasy. The first Final Fantasy really clicked with me and was a big jump from the original Dragon Quest. Final Fantasy IV (FF2 in North America) was groundbreaking. It's hard 30 years after it's release to communicate how big of a leap forward this game was in terms of story and character development. It might seem primitive by today's standards, but Final Fantasy 4 was the first console RPG to have such emotional impact and focus on the personal growth and internal struggles of it's characters. Before FFIV RPGs would give you direction such as visit ___ town to speak with ___npc who tells you to explore ___dungeon to retrieve ___McGuffin in order to proceed to the next sequence.
@@nesoukkefka1741 FF2 had a little more narrative depth than the first, but it was greatly limited by the amount of data available on a Famicom cartridge. Several characters join your party under various circumstances in FF2, with a couple dying during key story beats. These moments as well as the ongoing saga with childhood friend Leon are the highlight of FF2's attempt to create a compelling story IMO. Final Fantasy IV was able to make such a large leap in this regard mostly due to the expanded capacity of the new console. The Super Famicom could support games that took up megabytes of data compared to Famicom titles that topped out in the kilobytes.
The PSP remake is the best of both worlds. The upgraded script, lovely graphics, and stunning music, but without the punishing difficulty curve, annoying busywork of dealing with Augments, and the godawful voice direction in the cutscenes.
I thought it was a great game! I have 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 15 . . . but when I saw your video, I looked through my inventory and realized, I didn't have it! I have played it on an emulator twice, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Is it as good as V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII (haven't played XV yet)? It's hard to say. But again, I really enjoyed it! Thanks for the video. I never would have realized I didn't have it. I just ordered a used copy off Amazon for 3ds.
It's not a game. It's a time machine that takes me back to being 11 years old.
Hear Hear... the SNES version anyway which got me into RPG's in the first place once I knew what an RPG was.
Why does youtube still only have like and dislike and not "feel on a spiritual level" option
I feel this way too much. I first played it when I was ten, and absolutely fell in love with it. I've literally bought every port of it, just to show my love for this beautiful game.
I was looking forward to this one. FFIV is my favorite in the series.
FF4 is definitely a classic
It was my first final fantasy, I played it in the summer of 96. It was awesome at the time, and I still love it.
Absolutely
@@beerious8392 Also my first Final Fantasy title, played it soon after it came out, so over 30 years ago (yikes!). Arguably FF6 is probably a better title overall, but FF4 is still my favorite just based on the story and my nostalgia. Also a bit weird in that I had a NES for many years but never played the NES Final Fantasy until much later on, so FF4 is the one I always go back to.
Same
Smacking Yang with a frying pan is one of the funniest moments in the series.
Yeah that part was hilarious 😆 lots of funny moments in this game
Yes Final Fantasy IV is a great game! Really glad to see you enjoyed it and platinumed the game! One of my favorite FF games!
This channel is amazing. It could easily be named, "And the Trophy Pops."
Nice video. While I still consider Final Fantasy 4 to be a good game, I can understand if in today's day and age some people don't want to play it because they find it "too basic"; especially when they are plenty of other games they can look to for their "classic Final Fantasy fix" or "JRPG fix".
Thanks! Yeah there are so many great jrpgs out there to play now, it's great, I'm especially excited that FF16 is coming out soon
Playing FF 4 to me is a lot like listening to real old school roots blues music. I can see its influence on everything modern that I enjoy but I can completely understand if someone doesnt wanna sit around and listen to an old blues tune.
There is one detail every single remake of FFVI fails get right, including this one. In the original version of the game during his scriped battle, Golbez (and Zemus later) take almost no damage from the Fire3, Ice3, etc. That's why Tellah gets desperate and casts Meteo, which goes through his armor and does a full 9999 damage to him. Every single remake they've done have missed this detail, so while the combat dialogue conveys this, the actual numbers you see do not.
The lunarians were also mentioned in FF1, the Sky people!!! Wow!! Final fantasy just keeps on giving!!!!
This is my favorite because it’s my first. 1992 was an amazing time for playing my SNES. This game held many hours of fun for me.
I’m looking forward to V, my favorite in the series (and yours as well kek)
This was the first game I bought with my own earned coin back on snes.....good to see it's still around
Glad I found your channel and subscribed my friend . Really well done videos on final fantasy ❤
Appreciate it!
Doing a playthrough of the Pixel Remaster as we speak it definitely has a lot of replay value and this is coming from someone who didnt like RPGs growing up
I plan on playing through each main series games since I pretty much played seven and up and also four much later in life but it's my favorite series. Great video dude.
13:08 the king isn’t being mind controlled, the king you first see is the water fiend Cagnazzo in disguise. 14:16 Golbez didn’t summon him, as far as I know he attacks your ship because he wants Rydia
Good video. Cant wait for V.
Thanks! I’m looking forward to doing FFV, I think FFV is my favorite from 1-6 just because of the job system
@@sunderwire I've never played even though I have 3 ways to play it lol. But I'm looking forward to the Gilgamesh fight when I do.
For me its the best in the entire FF series even without the nostalgica glasses, since i indeed played it in 1992/93 on the SNES as my first FF.
It has the best story and story is king in Final Fantasy - or lets say, it had the best story that i would enjoy and have fun with the kind of stories i like and prefere.
In which FF was the protagonist also the evil guy? And which game you know had a better redemption story? The first part of this game is just a masterpiece in story telling and it does not even needed CGI.
Also, only here you meet Golbez who is basicly Final Fantasy's Darth Vader and closely releated to the protagonist of the story.
Very enchanting music scores and world building, very fast combat, too. The best game, every year.
Glad to see you enjoyed it. My favorite game of all time. Subscribed
The mechanics are solid and while theres no job system in place each character has their own strengths and weaknesses and thanks to the designers you always have a balanced party. But what really sets this game apart is the story. Even though it gets dark( very dark sometimes) you build up emotional investment in each character. Even the simple charms like your spoony bard running and hiding every time he gets hurt gives the character depth that connects the story to the gameplay. While you loose some characters and spoiler save most of them in the end. You still see how the world is changed by your actions and how those you cant save impacts the story.
I played ff7 for the first time two weeks ago and loved i it. Now I’m looking for another one to play and I’m choosing between 4 or 9 but this video helped me to choose. Thank you!
FF7 was also my first FF game it’s great. I would recommend playing 9 after you play some (or all) of the previous ones
@@sunderwire thanks i'll keep that in mind
What did you choose?
I personally would suggest you try out 6 first, then 4, and finally 9.
I appreciate your playthrough! I'm glad you finally had a chance to play through the game. Watching this playthrough makes me long for the original SNES FF2. I played that game A LOT as a young teenager. The one thing I miss from the SNES version was the original translated dialogue. It was quirky at times, but I thought it added to the story quite a bit. I felt that the cleaned up dialogue of the PR version takes away from some of the experience of the original. They took a lot of liberties with the updated dialogues and dumbed down some of it, which is unfortunate. I was especially upset that the PR version messes up much of the dialogue leading up to the final battle, including the second most iconic line in the game (behind "you spoony bard", of course), where Cecil in the original proclames "Zeromus!... for all the people of earth... I will destroy you!" The PR's rendering of "Zeromus! I won't lose! I...can't!" is extremely weak compared to the original. Also, as mentioned in other comments, toward the start of the game in the PR version, the king gives Cecil a "bomb ring", which kind of gives away the secret! I liked that in the original SNES, he just received an innocuous-sounding "Package", which then "automatically opens" as soon as he and Kain enter Mist.
The final fantasy 4 3D remake is such a cool upgrade to a game that is already a classic jrpg. It’s also pretty tough, probably one of the tougher final fantasies on a casual playthrough, which is a nice change of pace for the series.
Duh! Cmon, if nothing else, the music anybody?
Looking at this now: did you use a colour filter to saturate the colours of the video footage more, or did it come out that way when recording?
I've been playing on Switch and I can't recall it ever looking quite this saturated.
I used an elgato capture card for some of the footage and it came out more saturated compared to using the default PS5's capture card, so it was definitely due to the recording, it's not that saturated in game :)
That TV at the start looked so good
This game got me hooked on RPG games when I was like 10.
Sorry but the 3d remake of 4 is the best version and best way to experience the game. All other versions are too easy.
This was the first RPG I ever played. It was FFII for the SNES. Still one of my favorite games of all time.
Before watching I think the thing that made ffiv so great was that it was (imo) the first time Square got both combat and story telling right. The remakes help i-iii, but iv did them both right the first time.
I grew up on the SNES game...its like comfort food.
Ragnarok used to be Crystal Sword, i kinda like that better
This is the first Final Fantasy I ever beat as a kid. FF4 is an absolute classic and would benefit from a remake.
this and secret of mana are my favorite JRPGs
Honestly - the extra dungeons and content in each of the games that had them were pretty bad. They were clearly tacked on and added little to nothing to the experience. I don't mind that they didn't port them. Like in FF1 on the GBA - even with a patch that brings the game balance more in line with the NES, you can either have a balanced experience through the main story or you can become ridiculously overpowered by doing the side content while it's relevant. In FFIV, the extra dungeons come so late, and the inability to change party members was clearly not part of the original design - I understand if people are bummed about their exclusion and prefer versions of the games that have the extra content, but if you haven't played FFIV before, the Pixel Remaster is the way to go. (That or the 3D Steam version.)
FFX is the best FF
You goddamn right
You go to the Tower of Zot after giving Kane the earrh crystal. Babel comes after going to the underworld after getting Kane and Rosa back in the Tower of Zot.
@14:15 I thought King Leviathan did that to rescue Rydia?
These achievements seem fun, even the bestiary
I played the gba version of this but didnt do any of the extra stuff, it was fun but not too replayable really, at least the music was awesome
Id like to see what you think of ff5, probably the most replayable final fantasy
It's a good game. I specially enjoyed the GBA port because you could use whoever you wanted and you didn't have to stick with the main party.
What version is this and why is not the SNES/Super Famicom one?
It’s the pixel remaster version, it recently released on ps4 around 6 months ago
U gonna like after years i jus finished for the 1st time last month on the vita
One of the GOAT RPGs the story is timeless
One of the best games of all time imo
i just wanted to say hiding in frame time 1:11, and would not think people would run into that yeah ok, FFX sorry FFVI was the best one ever created. that all i have to say , also the video was good
Haha good eye. FF6 is amazing too!
Yeah, I really like FFVI as well, but then there is VII, VIII, IX, X, and XII . . . it's hard for me to pick, because I enjoyed them all so much. I think XII might be my favorite, but I really haven't played some of the others in years, and I haven't played FFVII Remake yet . . . though it is in the que.
"Golbez summons Leviathan"
He did not.
FFIV is not the best Final Fantasy, but it would be the one I would highly recommend being someone's first Final Fantasy
I never played FFIV on SNES back in the day so I don't have any nostalgia for it. I've gone back and played the GBA and DS versions over the years and found them... fine? The game being so rigid on party composition just and limited customisation just makes me feel like I'm mashing the confirm button for 20 hours. And the byzantine augment system did nothing to help that.
Square more than fixed that in FFV though, oh boy. Slaps you with all the job customisation you can handle in the early to mid game. If you want to play an optimised cheesy party of bluemagic wielding rapid fire ninjas, you can. If you want to roleplay suboptimal thematic classes for each character, you can (Galuf is clearly a mystic knight who can use Gaia. Faris is a Theif who can summon (Syldra!), Butz Redmage/bard, Lenna is a Whitemage/Time Mage) or just use whichever sprites look cool (Lenna's monk, Kriles beserker, Butz' dancer etc). You're always making choices and adjustments that really matter.
1992 all over again , i feel old
FF4 is and always will be my one and only Best❤❤❤❤
FFIV the Crystal Game you know the game that got Super Mario RPG music.
not only was it good, it's one of the best.
I loved this game, so worth the platinum trophy :)
The PSP version is the best IMO. I think the pixel remasters look worse that the original SNES versions.
Probably the most tragic of all the final fantasies where you lose the most people.
The pixel remasters are nice for graphics but for gameplay and items the PS1 version is the best and for the after years the Wii ware version is the best
Are you joking? Is it a good game? Heck yes. Its the game that got me to loving rpgs
I think 16 is fast becoming my favourite
The story is Amazing
I haven’t finished it yet but the combat, music and story are all fantastic in ff16 so far
16 is dogshit
@@sunderwirethe music is bland and forgettable outside of boss music, the combat is stupidly easy, and the story has horrible pacing, is full of plot holes and is shallow af
The story was even better than FF6 and I think it was the best among FF1-6.
ff4 3d remake is great
And you get Jain back in the tower of zoo not babil
Zot
It had to have been good if it gave us 5, 6, skip, and 8.
THIS IS THE BEST GAME IN THE SERIES. HANDS DOWN.
FF7 SUCKS MONKEY BALLS.
Oooof had to dislike due to naming Rydia > Eiko 😢
Haha! She just reminded me so much of Eiko
I originally played the SNES version and one part of the game I think was MUCH better was when you’re sent to Mist, the king didn’t give you a bomb ring, it’s just an innocuous package, and is just called “package” in the inventory. It make it a lot more shocking when the bomb burst out, and better contextualizes Cecil’s reaction.
They keep calling it a bomb ring in newer translations, which is a real shame. It gives it away
I think the thing is Bomb Ring is actually the Japanese translation, but yeah I agree for once they should have taken liberty here.
psp calls it carnelian signet, much better
The newer translation is actually the more accurate one. The japanese refers to it as a bomb ring, too.
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 Yup.
Ff4 will always hold a special place in my heart. I just love it man
Funnily enough, while this is undoubtedly a good game, I played FF4 and FF2 around the same time as each other on PS1 (I'd first played FF6 on the SNES, and of course already played FF7), and actually ended up enjoying FF2 more. They're definitely built a similar structure to each other, but I had a lot of fun customizing my FF2 cast with some early game grinding to make their stats and abilities fit different rolls so they'd continue to develop in those direction over the course of the game. And only having one rotating guest party member felt like the perfect balance of that kind of style, so you still had a core to work off of. Also, FF6's cast rotating felt better because it was typically a result of different parties going on different adventures instead of the main character constantly gaining and dropping traveling companions.
...FF4 feels like a D&D campaign with too many scheduling conflicts, the DM having to come up with more and more outrageous excuses for the party members to get split up and swapped out (which has it's own comical charm, but gets tiring with all the fake-out deaths, like it was specifically intentionally aping FF2's actual character deaths all over the place thinking about it after the fact). I actually kind of dropped my original FF4 playthrough mid-to-late-way to play FF2 to completion before returning to finish FF4.
Worth playing?
Depends, do you like good games?
Yea?
Then, hell yea it is!
Haha well put!
Definitely in my top 3 FF games for story, especially when I played it at release and there were no guides, or internet to look up clues that I can remember. I do remember getting Nintendo Power and hoping there were going to be tips and tricks for games I was playing at the time. Thanks for the memories :).
One of the greatest games ever created. No cap. Part of me hopes someone will make an anime series of this story .
Ahh I love a good FF4 commentary. I'm biased, as it is my personal favorite in the series! Hope to one day see you tackle the DS/PC version and compare the two and will eagerly be watching your other Final Fantasy reteospectives! The thought bubble feature in the 3d version is perhaps my favorite addition of all time and I find it adds SO much in the way of immerson. Would love to one day hear your thoughts on Interlude and After Years as well one day ❤
Maybe one day! I definitely plan on playing the 3D version and After Years at some point
Lol if u have played the 3d remake how do u still pronounce their names wrong lol XD
When you said that a timed Odin fight reminded you of FF7s emerald weapon fight I was taken aback...like bro, a timed Odin fight exists in FF8 lol
haha good call, that's an even better reference
There’s a timed Odin fight in FF5 also. You only get 1:00 minute to beat him.
My first FF game and an all time favorite.
I've only played the North American SNES release - the version in which the difficulty was decreased for North American gamers at the time. I enjoyed it for the most part but had a lot of trouble on the last two dungeons. Is the Pixel Remaster based on this easier North American version, or the original Super Famicom/GBA/PSP difficulty?
It’s based off the original SNES version but Pixel Remaster games have some tweaks/adjustments make the game feel a bit more modern, so they’re kind of their own version
I beat the pixel remaster of IV a couple weeks back. It is definitely more of a challenge than the US SNES version. Lunar Subterrane and the Crystal Palace are fairly challenging in the early 40s. What I did was take multiple runs to clear out all of the chests with the end game gear (enter the dungeon, fight every single encounter, get to a chest, fight the monster in the box, equip the new gear, teleport out, buy up all the elixirs I could afford, repeat). It took a few play sessions to do over the course of a week, but about midway through I was strong enough to use the cursor memory, auto battle, and auto battle continuation settings to turn off the brain and just use a map guide to get to where I wanted to go without paying much attention to the actual random encounters.
Question: Final Fantasy IV has Lunarians in it? I'm kind of disappointed buying the 3D remake because they didn't include the extra campaign. Now I have thoughts buying it or not. I'm just here for the Lunarians.
Yeah you meet one of the Lunarians when you go to the moon and he explains their purpose
When you're talking about the extra campaign do you mean The Lunar Ruins or the extra story sequel? Because if you're looking for the Lunar ruins unfortunately it's only available in the PSP port The Complete Collection and FF4 Advance. If you're looking for more information on the Lunarians themselves, I can confidently say The After Years 3d version should fulfill your craving at least in part as they are featured more there. Hope this helps!
Love this game. It's always worth it to play to me
6 was the perfect FF game. music, story and character development are all 10 out of 10
I was playing FF4PR on my PS4 and well...I've gotten like...4 goblin drops without even grinding, my first goblin dropped it. My luck I swear
FFIV is like the only game that u don’t have to think to hard about. No JP or AP. No buying skills or spells. No job shifting. No character changes. Just Exp and Cecil/Rydia soul crushing enemies. (There is that thing at level 70 on but pffft)
It’s the game ppl should play first imo
Is a great game
I love this game but for some reason cannot make it past the rematch with the 4 fiends inside the robot. And I'm in my late level 60s
im not really a fan of this game. weak story, really. i grew up on final fantasy 6 first. so, 4 was old news and very much inferior in quality.
Had to stop watching after the 5th "and the Trophy pops", that got annoying real quick
Did not even attempt to pronounce some of the names. "Barbara," lol.
The best final fantasy game isn't subjective; it's TACTICS
I grew up with FFIV and lived it at the time but FFIV is clearly the least replayable of the NES/SNES games and one of the games that aged the poorest Story Wise.
The only element I think that stood above the rest was the music
Agreed. The fakeout deaths are the worst in this game they've ever been throughout the franchise.
Game just feels old when compared not only to other jrpgs series but Also to other games of the franchise,i finished final fantasy 2,Crisis Core and final fantasy tactics loved them all i am currently playing ff5 and it's great/underrated,all those games are better than 4 due to customization,better battle system and even story.
The Magus Sisters were in the Tower of Zot. Babil was a different tower.
Is it that hard to call Barbariccia Barbariccia instead of Barbara?
I'm glad you liked it. I've been into RPGs since I was a kid back in 1990. My first was Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior in America), which led me to Final Fantasy. The first Final Fantasy really clicked with me and was a big jump from the original Dragon Quest. Final Fantasy IV (FF2 in North America) was groundbreaking. It's hard 30 years after it's release to communicate how big of a leap forward this game was in terms of story and character development. It might seem primitive by today's standards, but Final Fantasy 4 was the first console RPG to have such emotional impact and focus on the personal growth and internal struggles of it's characters. Before FFIV RPGs would give you direction such as visit ___ town to speak with ___npc who tells you to explore ___dungeon to retrieve ___McGuffin in order to proceed to the next sequence.
I think they first try to do it with FFII, but that was hit or miss with II, IV definitly perfected what II try to do story wise.
@@nesoukkefka1741 FF2 had a little more narrative depth than the first, but it was greatly limited by the amount of data available on a Famicom cartridge. Several characters join your party under various circumstances in FF2, with a couple dying during key story beats. These moments as well as the ongoing saga with childhood friend Leon are the highlight of FF2's attempt to create a compelling story IMO. Final Fantasy IV was able to make such a large leap in this regard mostly due to the expanded capacity of the new console. The Super Famicom could support games that took up megabytes of data compared to Famicom titles that topped out in the kilobytes.
Im glad i wasnt the only one who called him Cee-Sil instead of Ses-sil
I wish I could play this game for the first time again.
26:00 cool, the lunar whale took them to Africa
Dam Han not do mecia
Yes!
Yes.
How do you get "damecia" from Damcyan?
Haha it just rolled off the tongue better, same with calling Barbariccia just Barbara
3d remake is the best way to play 4
It looks fun, I only played the intro for the 3d remake so far, but I really want to finish it, and the after years
The PSP remake is the best of both worlds. The upgraded script, lovely graphics, and stunning music, but without the punishing difficulty curve, annoying busywork of dealing with Augments, and the godawful voice direction in the cutscenes.
I thought it was a great game! I have 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 15 . . . but when I saw your video, I looked through my inventory and realized, I didn't have it! I have played it on an emulator twice, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Is it as good as V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII (haven't played XV yet)? It's hard to say. But again, I really enjoyed it! Thanks for the video. I never would have realized I didn't have it. I just ordered a used copy off Amazon for 3ds.
SO AMAZING so special if you were playing this early 90s you know what a big deal this game was
I love it after Years however IMHO was pure CRAP.