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so what your saying is that the game i played is not the true final fantasy 2 but a different game square named the same just to confuse us.
Yes, the game you played (with Cecil and Rosa and Kain) is really called "Final Fantasy 4", but Square changed it's name to try and
not confuse us.
You see, back in the NES days, Square didn't have any American people or American money to translate and publish their games.
Square/Nintendo arranged for Nintendo of America to translate and publish the first game. After it was done, Square dropped two more of them on NOA's desk, but NOA didn't want to do more of them, so they said "We're busy. Do it yourself." But Square wasn't capable of translating someting as big as an RPG yet, so they didn't.
Word around schoolyard playgrounds (the place to find BS at the time, since the internet hadn't been invented yet) was that Nintendo
refused to let Square make the games, because they were "too similar", even though they let Enix make four Dragon Warrior games.
By the time the SNES came out, Square had finally made a "Square of America", in time for FF4, but they decided that calling it "FF4" would confuse people, so they called it "FF2".
By the way, the version you played was made "easier" by Square, so it wouldn't scare anyone off with it's difficulty level. They made it easier for you to get experience and levels, so you didn't need to spend a lot of time "levelling up".
Also, the translation wasn't as good as it could be. Like, did the fight on top of the mountain where Cecil became a Paladin make any sense to you? Probably not. And it wasn't because you were younger. If anything, it might have made
more sense to you if you were younger, and couldn't entirely tell what was going on.
A retranslated version with the original difficulty was ported to the PSone. It suffers from typical PlayStation loading times, and has a numbers of bugs in it (the game crashes sometimes), but it's only
$20 and comes with a port of Chrono Trigger (which has even worse loading times, but has some nifty anime sequences), so you might be interested in it.
I can't really say if FF2j is any good, because I haven't played it yet, but these Wonderswan-based remakes look a LOT better than the original NES games (even better than the SNES games, in a lot of places), and FF2j was the first one to have a specific story to the game, with characters who had their own names.
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