Final Fantasy IV: Difference between revisions

Have you noticed something strange already? Yes, this was the first ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game to have an actual ''plot'' beyond a generic "[[An Adventurer Is You|you are heroes]], [[Saving the World|go save world]] [[Card-Carrying Villain|from evil]]" story that was pretty much the standard for most RPGs at the time. As strange as it may seem to be to people who are used to the idea of an RPG [[Story to Gameplay Ratio|beginning with twenty hours of real-time cutscenes]], this was ''huge'' at the time of release.

 

 

Received a cell phone sequel called ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years|The After Years]]'' (also available on [[Wii Ware]] and the [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]]), which stars the old cast and some of their children teaming up again to prevent the same catastrophe from happening again. It, along with ''Final Fantasy IV'' itself, was released on the PSP in March 2011 in Japan and April every where else. Also includes a Midquel called Interlude to connect the plots better. Both games use new graphics and is the largest 2D graphical change to the original other then the cellphone version. This version is heavily based on the GBA version, only thing taken from the DS version is translations of terms (e.g. Carnellian Signet rather then "Bomb Ring").

* [[Boring but Practical]]: The game's stinginess with MP recovery items (see below) means that you'll be relying on regular weapon attacks quite a bit. Not to mention that many characters use little or no magic to begin with.

** This is fixed in the DS remake. Rosa's 'Pray' ability has a much higher success rate than the original game and heals MP as well as HP. It is also possible to teach a character 'Bless', which is an MP regen spell. Quite useful, considering how much more important MP is in the remake (in the end-game your mages are double-casting every turn, and the 'Phoenix' skill which revives fallen allies heals them equal to the percentage of MP the Phoenix-caster has.

** The blade above Rosa's head during her captivity is changed to a metal sphere. At least that's roughly as deadly as the original item.

** Also concerning Rosa, her Holy spell becomes White, and Holy elemental becomes "Sacred power".

* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: If you destroy Balnab/Barnabas before Dr. Lugae, Lugae merges himself with his creation to attack.

* [[Punched Across the Room]]: Or as it occurs in the Tower of Bab-il, "Punched across the room, through the door, and landing several tiles away."

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The Elemental Fiends. One of them has a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] of her own.

* [[Randomly Drops]]: The Pink Tail. It is dropped by Pink Puff/Flan Princesses. In the room where you can find those monsters (which is a very small room with only one uninteresting treasure), you have an 1/64 chance of encountering a formation of five of those things. Each of those things have a 5/98 rate of dropping ANY items at all, and a further 1/64 chance that the dropped item will be a Pink Tail. If you just run around that room, you have a 0.006% chance of getting a pink tail (or you'll on average get 1 tail every 10056 battles). In some versions, you can use an item that guarantees the encounter with five Flan Princesses, increasing the odds to 0.3% per battle, or 1 tail every 251 battles on average. Good luck, you'll need it.

** Pink Tails are by no means the ONLY really rare drop in the game, just the most famous one. There are a lot of other things in the game, like the hidden summons (Goblin, Mind Flayer, Cockatrice and Bomb), that are randomly dropped and every bit as rare as the Rainbow Pudding. To add insult to injury, the Goblin summon is pretty much useless despite being as rare as Mind Flayer (damage, sap and paralyze), Cockatrice (Multitarget Petrification), and Bomb (damage equal to Rydia's health, without harming her). Equipments ranging from [[Disc One Nuke|mid-game destroying equipments]] like Rune Staves and Lilith Rods, and other [[Infinity+1 Sword|ultimate equipments]] like Crystal Rings, extra Protect Rings, extra Ribbons, Dragon Whips and so on are all [[Random Drop|randomly dropped]] and at least nearly as, if not just as rare as the Pink Tail, just that the monsters that drop them tend to be commoner encounters.

* [[Rare Candy]]: The Golden and Silver Apples, which will increase the max HP of the character they are used on by 100 or 50 HP, respectively. There is also the Soma Drop which increases the selected character's maximum MP by 10.

* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: You can hurt undead monsters by using healing spells on them. Not to mention that (especially in the DS version), the best way to kill Scarmiglione without invoking his counters is to use healing spells and potions on him.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Tellah tried, but just didn't quite pull it off, though he ''did'' whip out the most powerful [[Black Magic]] spell known.

** During the party's first fight with Rubicante, the fiend of fire states that [[Divine Comedy|"the frozen winds of hell's 9th circle"]] couldn't penetrate his cloak.

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150321152831/http://spoonybard.org/fanlisting/dawn/barbariccia.jpg Barbariccia's] appearance seems like an intentional shout out to [http://catherinebray.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/barbarella2.jpg Barbarella].

** [[The Hobbit (novel)|Lali-Ho]].

*** Or, depending on which town you're in, [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Hi-Ho!]]