Just beat it! Discuss definate spoilers!!!
well, tonight I finally beat it, and as it was a first for me, and i tend to put alot of emotional investment with long games, especially RPGs, I wanted to know how you guys felt/reacted once you finally beat the game.
This is also a place to talk about highlights of the game that you enjoyed.
And due to a time constraint, ill post more later.
o, and i forgot to add a exclamation mark between discuss and definate.
Originally Posted by Maxx Power
Though FFVI was the first FF I played, FFIV was the first one I owned and beat. This is perhaps my second favorite FF game and I found the ending to be one of the best, cause it tells you what happens to everyone. I felt really sad for Kain though...
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
Current Mood: And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than the last. I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself. To hold on to these moments as they pass...
The music when you beat the game and (SPOILER)Golbez leaves and then him and Cecil come to terms and the moon goes away and the music and the propehecy and <3.
I really do like the story, but I found the game somewhat tedious, particularly because, as has been discussed in the "where are the jobs?" thread, you lose the chance to "build" and experiment with your characters. Repeatedly fighting just to raise some numbers so you can keep fighting things that will continue to raise your numbers at the same rate is not all that fun to me, compared to gaining new abilities or improving on old ones (besides HP and power) as you play through the game--the only aspect of FFIV that really had that was the spells.
Still, the end of the game really made up for any of its faults for me. The Lunar Core and the final battle are flat out fun, and rewarding because they're pretty challenging even at fairly high levels. Zeromus is not a terribly great villain personality-wise because he's barely "in the game" (a fault FFIV shares with FFI and III), but he offered a really intense, heart-pounding battle for me, the best I've had in the series so far. And then of course the ending "movie" that concludes the character's tales is excellent. All in all it left me feeling good, and feeling like the several-dozen hours I put in were worth it in the end, and that's all I really ask for at the end of the day.
Enough with the jobs. The jobs were no good in FFIV imo. When FFV went back to jobs, character interaction was badly destroyed to me.
Character Interaction > Character Experimentation
Well, if there should be a spinoff, FFIV deserves credit, especially with Kain.
As for me, i spent the last quarter of the game just going through the dungeons after getting badly beaten by zeromus the first time, but when i went back at 60+, he was pretty simple. I had a huge mothersmurfinig grin on my face throughout the final cutsence ^^
Im really glad that i got the music now too, Prelude ftw.
As a villian goes, zeromus wasnt that great, but it was more about golbez and cecil, and thier interaction and relation was excellently done, IMO.
Another thing that got me into it was just the memorable charachters like Cid and Edge, and i almost fell out of my chair laughing when i found out there was a thing between edge and rydia, or so edge wanted to think :P
I thought the ending was really awesome because it felt so complete. Everyone ends up happy. It's also quite amusing at some parts. (Like when Palom sits on Cecil's throne)
Cept for Kain, We need resolution! Also, it would be cool to see how the lunarians ended up, after leaving earth orbit ^ ^
FFIV was one of the better endings to the series I thought. It even went so far as to show the non main party members at the end. Really had a nice ending over all, had some awesome Cid/Edge interaction, and of course Palom being his crazy self.
Overall one of my favorite endings to a game.
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This is something that I don't agree with. Endings in life are never perfect, so endings in games shouldn't be either. Kain is the thing balancing the Happy/Sad ending of this game.
*SPOILERS!!!*
I think the ending was pretty well done, wrapping things up nicely for almost everyone. The only problem I had was that the dialogue in each character's ending (from Palom/Porom's ending to the wedding) goes way too quickly, especially in the GBA version, so I missed almost half of the things they said in the ending of FFIVA.I thought everyone uniting to fight the Giant of Babel was my favorite part in the game. The dungeon inside the Giant was cool too, and there were some great twists inside the Giant, such as the battle against Four Fiends and the revelation about Golbez.
People dislike FFIX because they're horrible idiots. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
"One-Winged Angel" is far and away the best final boss song ever
composed. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
Kain still acts like an effeminate baby.
But Lunar ruins have some plot tie-ins (especially Kain's)
Leave some shards under the belly
Lay some grease inside my hand
It's a sentimental jury
And the makings of a good plan
Agreed!
It's my favorite moment in the first five FFs. The Giant starts mucking stuff up and I'm thinking, "OH man, this is not good." Just when everything seems hopeless there comes a, "Rally ho!" and the cavalry comes rolling in! Only to be topped when the rest of your buddies come with the airships. I have a game saved just before the return to the planet just so I can watch that scene whenever I want.
*MORE SPOILERS!!!*
I have loads of save games just before some great parts in different FFs, including before everyone joins forces to fight the Giant of Babel. There's several other parts in FFIV that I can watch again thanks to some earlier save games I kept, such as the Spoony Bard scene, Tellah vs. Golbez and fighting the Four Fiends.
People dislike FFIX because they're horrible idiots. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
"One-Winged Angel" is far and away the best final boss song ever
composed. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds the Giant of Bab-il Battle awesome.
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