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Since the [[Final Fantasy II|second]] and [[Final Fantasy III|third]] ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games hadn't been released in the US when ''Final Fantasy IV'' came out, the US release of ''FFIV'' was titled ''Final Fantasy II''. The US ''FFII'' was easier than the Japanese version; before the US version was released, it spawned another Japanese version, "''Final Fantasy IV Easytype''", whose difficulty level was scaled down even farther. (Thus, the US version was less difficult than the original Japanese version, but significantly harder than ''Easytype''.) The US ''Final Fantasy II'' also suffered from severe [[Bowdlerise|censorship]]. ("[[Spoony Bard|You spoony bard!]]", anyone?) Many of the [[Good Bad Translation|fan-favorite lines]] were kept in the re-translated re-releases.
Received a cell phone sequel called ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
''Final Fantasy IV'' is considered by many to be one of the best of the series, partly because it was first released before the series developed an [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]. It's been remade/ported numerous times; this has garnered some distaste for the game as [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|its story and battle system haven't aged well]]. In addition to being half of the ''Final Fantasy [[Chrono Trigger|Chronicles]]'' compilation on the [[PS 1]], ''FFIV'' has been ported to the GBA, and was the second game (after [[Final Fantasy III]], [[No Export for You|which didn't make it over beforehand]]) to be remade with 3D graphics on the Nintendo DS. It's also the first remake to add voice acting, if only for key scenes.
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* [[Ascended Meme]]: "You [[Spoony Bard]]!" is the [[Trope Codifier]] for the series, being kept in all releases of the game when the rest of the script has been re-translated. It has even worked its way into other ''Final Fantasy'' games and beyond.
* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is {{spoiler|Zeromus'}} [[Final Speech]].
** {{spoiler|He makes good on this promise in ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
* [[The Atoner]]: Cecil, Kain, {{spoiler|Golbez at the end of the game and in ''The After''.}}
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Meteo/Meteor spell. It does high damage but it's blunted by its high casting time, high MP cost, the 9999 damage cap, and by the time Rydia levels up enough to learn it she can do just as much damage with Flare or Bahamut, which cast faster and cost less MP.
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* [[Whip It Good]]: Rydia.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Subverted with Cecil, who is [[The Hero]].
** Golbez has an [[Zig-Zagging Trope|odd relationship with this trope]]--in the original version, there was no way to know for sure if he fit the archetype, since [[The Faceless|he never took his helm off.]] Since he's {{spoiler|Cecil's brother}}, though, it was a reasonable assumption. The DS version seemingly averted it, as he clearly has brown hair in flashbacks, but on the other hand, we only ever see Golbez's face in flashbacks from when he was a child, so that could have changed in the intervening years. ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
* [[White Magician Girl]]: Rosa is the prototypical example of the personality, even though she's better off using a bow. Porom also fits the character type, both in personality and skillset.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: {{spoiler|To [[War of the Worlds]], if you examine Zemus's motives closely.}}
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