LET'S PLAY! FINAL FANTASY IV EDITION! ALSO A GENERAL FINAL FANTASY DISCUSSION TOPIC

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I have to say that I like the SNES and Playstation versions of FFIV out of all of them. I just like the way they look and sound, and even the way everything is colored! There manus are just...classical! PLUS it's the first Final Fantasy I ever played. Ku ku. Yeah, and it was hard as hell back then. So hard, infact, that I couldn't beat Octomammoth for the life of me. <_< Or..maybe it's just that I didn't know what i was doing. Eh.

I agree; even with all of the releases and such, I still have a soft spot in my heart for the older versions myself. I love the classic look and it certainly has a charm to it.

And yes, it can be pretty difficult, even for the Easytype. The Dark Elf and the Evil Wall are still healthy challenges even after all of these years, and certain dungeons are just ridiculous, like the Lunar Caves and whatnot.

I'm now offically a Feldschlacht IV and a Let's Play fan. You're brilliant man, keep this up!

It's been a LONG time since i've played FF4 and I never completed it so this is really interesting, you're putting a lot of effort in and going at a good pace. You could use spoiler tags if your worried about the page loading time

Thanks, I appreciate it. I find keeping a good pace easier than I thought, and I'm having a lot of fun on the way. Thanks for the kind words, my man.

In case you missed it on the OP:

DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, THE LET'S PLAY THREAD WILL NOW ASSUME THE GBA VERSION OF FINAL FANTASY IV. IT IS AN ALL AROUND BETTER GAME AND I'M MAKING THE SWITCH WHILE I'M STILL EARLY IN THE GAME. TRUST ME. IT'LL BE FINE.

Our last adventure ended with the destruction of the village of Mist, the separation from Kain, and now Cecil has discovered his calling; babysitting. Where will fate take our intrepid babysitting hero next?



Remember back when I said that the version I was playing didn't have Cecil's Dark Sword attack? Well, here it is. For a fraction of Cecil's HP, it does pretty decent damage to all enemies. However, given that Cecil can't cure himself, and Potions are rare enough as it is, wouldn't it work best in tandem with someone who knows White Magic? Hmm.




Anywho, we find ourselves a sandy little asscrack called Kaipo. Given that we've been separated from Kain and that we have an unconscious girl to lug around, Kaipo seems to be the spot to be right now.




Good thinking, Cecil, as long as you don't try to ditch her here.




Cecil tries to patch things up with the girl, but she gives us the silent treatment. Hey, given that Cecil is directly responsible for the death of her mother, hometown, and everything she knows and loves, he's having it easy. So, Cecil pretty much gives up and goes to sleep.





However, some soldiers from Baron decide that whatever they're doing is more important than Cecil's daily eight hours. They demand to have the girl, but Cecil ain't havin' it.



..and they're not too happy.



Unfortunately for them their feelings on the matter are irrelevant because they just got some Dark Sword to the face.



The girl finally realizes the situation and Cecil's intentions and warms up. Now we won't have to bury her in the desert can continue on in our journey without any bad feelings.




Introducing Rydia. Rydia is an interesting case because she's pretty much a small scale sex symbol in Final Fantasy fandom. While not as popular as say Tifa or Quistis, there's a surprisingly large amount of fans that just love the girl. Yes, I know she's a six year old girl. Just chill out, in defense of Rydia lovers everywhere, it will make sense later. Also, she summons things. That's really all that's notable about her; nobody seems to talk about her in any other context.






We set out in the morning and I waste no time pumping the locals for questions. The gist of the scenario is this; We're apparently in Damcyan, a country to the north of Baron. There's this broad that ran off somewhere with her bard boy and her daddy is mad about it, and there's this place called Fabul somewhere. Cool.



But what really interests me is this.




After going to the upper right house a long and arduous search through the expansive city of Kaipo, I finally track down Rosa.





She...ain't lookin' too good. Apparently we have to get something called a Sand Ruby to heal her jungle fever, and that's in some cave somewhere where an Antlion dwells. How a precious gem is supposed to heal a medical ailment is beyond me, but hey, I'm no doctor. So, we set out into the desert to find it, apparently. Oh, but before we go...



Strippers.




Out into the desert again, but this time Rydia is primed and ready to go. Judging from her stats, she makes for an impressive mage, but with piss poor stats from being at level one, well, she has the survivability of a paper bag. So, we toughen her up the only proper and safe way how. No, not diet and exercise, moron.



Throwing her up against deadly desert monsters. Hey, this is nothing compared to my gym classes in elementary school. Side note; was I the only one devastated when I found out that middle school didn't have recess? That shit tore me up inside.

Anyway, let's see if this little girl lives up to her name as a summoner. Gimme dat Titan.



...Close enough, I guess. You know it's disturbingly odd that Rydia of all people would suffer from Magus Syndrome.



After some leveling up for Rydia and aimlessly wandering around, I end up here.



This is a good omen, most of the enemies here are weak against Thunder, which our little Rydia has no problem jamming out of her fingertips or wherever magicians excrete magic or whatnot.



And thus begins the journey. I remember the Waterway specifically as a kid because of how dick numbingly long it is. Seriously, to be the second dungeon in the game it's long as hell. However, a little into the way we meet this dude.



It's uh, really weird that you'd be just sitting here, kinda waiting for me, but I guess I've seen stranger shit.



Evil...bard? That has to be some sort of a hilarious oxymoron.



That sucks. At least we have something to look forward to.




Introducing Tellah. Famous for being an old man, hating bards, having a hardon for meteors, and even more famous for one of the most famous video game phrases of all time. I won't even spoil it here, it's something you have to see for yourself. I won't forget to show you.



Tellah has some pretty decent magical stats, he's quite the experienced mage, knowing all sorts of magic. But that's really where it ends. Being the old bard hater that he is, he's pretty weak otherwise, and if I remember correctly, his stats actually go down every level due to old age. He is a good mage, though.



See? Told ya so. The battles in this cave aren't so hard, Tellah and Rydia providing the thunder, and I'm doing very good damage just whacking things upside the head with my sword.



Continuing along...Did you guys know there's a plot guide for FFIV that was only release in Japan called the Settei Shiryou Shuu? It was the ultimate guide by the creators on everything in the game plotwise, characterwise, and worldwise, and it's all official. Kinda like the Ultimania's if you've ever heard of them. The book is pretty old, but you can still buy it. I'll share some info from it during boring dungeon stomping like this.



Okay this thing was irritating. It kept casting Renew on itself which healed in instantly. I pretty much had to gang up on him with everyone to take this thing down.



Hidden chambers, fuck yeah.



And actually, I'm running low on MP. At this rate we won't make it through the entire cave.



Oh, cool, rest for the weary, and Tellah even gives us a Tent to use.




Hey, hey! Hands off the girl, old man.



In his senility he pretty much skips subject to his daughter and how she ran away with her bard boyfriend or whatever.



You'll see why pretty soon.



How long have you been in this cave, anyway?




More of the same the next morning. Cave, monster, cave, monster. And is it just me or did they jack up the random encounters big time in the GBA version? It seems I can't even twitch without running into something.



BTW I don't know if you could do this before but you can change party leaders in the GBA version. What purposes does it serve? I dunno!



Man, this is depressing. I thought this was the cave with the monster!




Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast

Yeah, I know nobody got that. It's okay.




BTW I pretty much skipped the short dungeon screenshots because frankly I was sick and tired of meandering through caves. You didn't miss anything.



OH GOD



This boss was actually dirt easy. I remember him being much harder. This is how the fight went basically.



Tried Osmose. Failed.




Rinse.




Repeat.



Fuck yeah I did.



And that is basically that. With the Ottomammoth defeated, we're basically in Central Damcyan. There's little in our way of getting the Sand Ruby, and tracking down Tellah's daughter even though he basically kinda forced himself on us. So yeah, that's it for this installment! For now, I'm taking my ass to bed because I have work at 9 AM! Peace out till next time.

I'm going to update this when I get the chance tonight, but considering that I'm Le Tired from work, it may be short. However, I'm getting better and better at this, so it'll be worth the while.

I do plan on doing the entire game, plus the bonus content, so don't worry! I'm having quite a good time doing this as well, so it's good for me, too! Thanks for the comments, everyone, I'll try to answer them individually later.