Final Fantasy IV

Original title: Fainaru fantajî IV

Video Game
1991
Unrated

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A dark knight questions the ruthless actions of his king and undergoes a quest to redeem himself and save the world.A dark knight questions the ruthless actions of his king and undergoes a quest to redeem himself and save the world.A dark knight questions the ruthless actions of his king and undergoes a quest to redeem himself and save the world.

Director
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
Writers
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Takashi Tokita

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8.4/10

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Director
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
Writers
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Takashi Tokita

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
First Final Fantasy game to debut the espers of Ramuh and Ifrit, although their names were originally Indra and Jinn respectively.

Goofs
When Cecil and his allies Rosa, Rydia, Kain, Edge come with him on the Whale spaceship and fly to the moon, they can pilot it until they land it. But when they exit outside, they walk around without their spacesuits. This would cause them to die including Fusoya and Golbez, because first of all, there's no life on the moon including trees or water. Second, they would freeze to death or burn to death by the sun due to extreme heat and cold temperatures caused by the sun or no sun. Also gravity on the moon is different than Earth and they would bounce lightly and float on the moon. If they were provided spacesuits with oxygen tanks, then they would be able to survive on the moons surface but would have limited time to explore and fight before returning on the spaceship. However, their spacesuits would make them more vulnerable to monster attacks and it would be slightly harder to use weapons due to the moons lighter gravity.

Quotes
Tellah: You spoony bard!

Alternate versions
Scenes cut from the Easy Type (edited version):
The programmer room with porn magazines and snuff films.
The seductive bar dancers were cut from the game being replaced with dancers in one piece swimsuits.
The seductive dancer who removed her dress in Town of Baron and Town of Kaipo simply dances wearing the same dress.
The scythe that was going to drop on Rosa was an Iron ball instead.
Removal of magical items such as attack items and individual healing items reduced to one item called Heal.
Profanity including "Damn", "Hell", The F**k word and slang words.
Removal of religious references including "Holy" renamed to "White" and Tower of Prayer being called Tower of Wishes. However the elder still uses one word of "Holy" and the mage still says "Tower of Prayer"
Characters acting drunk. The Pubs being renamed to Cafe. However the Dwarf in the Howdy Cafe still acts drunk as he dances.
Cecils "Darkness" ability, and Rosa's "Pray" ability was removed.
References to Death and suicide has been removed. Although Milon Z. uses the word "Death" and characters like Rydias mother, Anna, Tellah, Edges mom and dad still die in the game.
The North American release is called Final Fantasy II instead of Final Fantasy IV.
The enemies are much easier to kill compared to the original version.

Connections
Edited into Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box (2012)

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Featured review

7/10

Success at Last

Final Fantasy IV was the first in the series to make it actually popular. Runned over by Dragon Quest series before it finally managed to rise to it's now known glory.

Story is finally descent without clichés (Final Fantasy II) or pointless wandering with little happening (Final Fantasies I and III). Cecil, a dark knight who left his position as the captain of royal air forces by moral reasons, tries with the help of his best friend Kain, girlfriend Rosa and many other interesting people to stop mysterious Golbez from using elemental crystals for evil. Plot has many twisting turns and exiting moments but it's main problem is that characters are quite distant. They are interesting but the members the group changes pretty quickly except Cecil who is probably the best character in this game to feel sympathy for. Also there's not told enough background information from certain characters like Golbez whose past and events that formed him evil would have brought more spice to him. And it annoys that most of the characters are so damn eager to sacrifice themselves.

Music is completely it's own chapter. Nobuo Uematsu's beautiful melodies gets their rightful epic feeling in Super Nintendo's sound chips. World Map-theme, trembling Tower of Babil and epic Final Batlle are just few of the many excellent music pieces. Graphigs are colorful and they have unique SNES charm that even time cannot ravage. There's not much to say about battle system because it's overly simple with it's strict character roles and picking from attack, item and some special properties.

Final Fantasy IV finally succeeded in that where it's predictors failed. Truly worth of playing even after 16 years.