Topic: REVIEWS: Final Fantasy IV

[Peachylala]

FFVII will never appear on a Sony console. It's basically Sony's whore.

I'd rather have a Secret Of Mana remake, just keep Yoichi Wada away from it.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Well gang, I finally beat this game over the long weekend. (Yes, it was a long weekend here.) It was my first Final Fantasy, and I was not disappointed. As Jonny mentions in his review, the whole package is so smooth that I couldn't tell what was new, and what was in the original / an earlier remake.  The story and storytelling devices are certainly more interesting than in most RPGs.

This game can get pretty damn brutal in terms of the strategy and timing required...although I certainly beat a few bosses with good-old-fashioned elbow grease, and not tips I later read in FAQs. Slow, toad, and a few other spells are easy to overlook, but near the end of the game I discovered they can really come in handy.

Internet at home is still a ways off, but I hope to finally buy a TV this weekend after I get my paycheck. Now if only I can find a D-terminal cable for my Wii....

[Jonnyboy117]

I'm impressed, TYP.  I've taken a few stabs at the Lunar Subterranean and have been getting destroyed.  The random encounters with two blue dragons are brutal, and the red giants can occasionally get lucky and take me out.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Don't be ashamed of running away. You'll never make it through fighting every baddie you encounter in that dungeon...it's just too long and cruel. Those freaking blue dragons almost always killed me. Edge's paralyze ninjitsu move just isn't reliable enough, and that's the only way I could deal with them.

By the end of the dungeon, it's pretty obvious by the random enemies you encounter that the designers don't intend for you to fight every battle. Yeah, you'll lose money, but by that point in the game, do you really care?

Also, consider teleporting out to save...I lost a lot of level-ups and items once because I did not.

[Jonnyboy117]

I've lost a lot of level ups and items at least three times now.  There's a mid-point save station but I haven't been able to reach it yet without dying or chickening out.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Chicken out. Seriously. Chicken out and get to the midway point, then backtrack if you want to grab some goodies or level up. Unless there's a save point I missed, I'd call the midway point more of a four-fifths point.

[Jonnyboy117]

I guess now is the time to finish it, since I'm ready to review Lock's Quest and DQIV will probably be here Saturday or Monday.

[that Baby guy]

Well gang, I finally beat this game over the long weekend. (Yes, it was a long weekend here.) It was my first Final Fantasy, and I was not disappointed. As Jonny mentions in his review, the whole package is so smooth that I couldn't tell what was new, and what was in the original / an earlier remake.  The story and storytelling devices are certainly more interesting than in most RPGs.

This game can get pretty damn brutal in terms of the strategy and timing required...although I certainly beat a few bosses with good-old-fashioned elbow grease, and not tips I later read in FAQs. Slow, toad, and a few other spells are easy to overlook, but near the end of the game I discovered they can really come in handy.

Internet at home is still a ways off, but I hope to finally buy a TV this weekend after I get my paycheck. Now if only I can find a D-terminal cable for my Wii....

One of the most fun things I've done was play through Final Fantasy VI in a low-level game.  The bosses do not give experiences, and there's about five enemies you have to play total that do.  Nearly every boss has a weakness, and there's always a strategy to make it through the bosses that can be found pretty easily.  It's great fun, because you don't have to go out of your way to do this, you can just go through the game and run from all enemies from bosses, opposed to strategical killing in some games, and even the bonus game in SMRPG.  This has to be one of my best RPG experiences, up there with playing Tales of Symphonia two player all the way through.

[KDR_11k]

So it doesn't prevent you from running if your characters are too slow?

[Armak88]

I was thinking about picking this game up recently, and I have two questions.

First to Jonny, the review mentions that you felt that some of the voice actors were a little off, i'm just curious as to which characters you liked and which you didn't. I saw a video with Cecil and Kain in it, and i'm not too sure how I feel about Cecil's voice

To TYP, just because i'm nosey, I was wondering if you went to the villiage of summons and got leviathan, also if you managed to get bahamut?

[TheYoungerPlumber]

yes and yes. got the 2 in the village before the dark crystal cave.

[Jonnyboy117]

Yeah, Cecil's voice kind of sucks.  Golbez is perfect, though.

[that Baby guy]

So it doesn't prevent you from running if your characters are too slow?

It does not.  Running is computed by the character trying to run, not the character's speed.  Additionally, your speed doesn't increase without boosts from Espers.  A level-up without an Esper only boosts HP and MP, while the damage formula for nearly every attack is also increased, but no other stats go up without Esper boosts.