7 Final Fantasy IV Facts You Probably Didn't Know

[@stephanieyvonne9436]

I played this game when it was FFII on the SNES. As a 12 year old girl I fell in love with the story of Cecil and Rosa and was determined to finish the game to see how it ended. Back then I had to share the SNES with my little brother so getting to finish any game was a challenge but I finally got my ending. A few years ago I found about FFIV The Complete Collection (FFIV, The Interlude and FFIV The After Years) so of course I had to play all three. It was amazing to see the story continue and even get to play as Cecil and Rosa’s son and Golbez as well. I enjoy the other FF games but theres no doubt that FFIV will always be my favorite.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

There's nothing like that first compelling experience. For me, it was FFVI when it was released as III on the SNES. I think Terra/Tina was one of the first characters I really personally identified with, and that allowed me to witness the stories and relationships of the other characters in a way I'm not quite sure I've ever experienced anywhere else. Just goes to show how important our formative experiences really are.

[@DS94everXev]

Agree. FFIV was amazing. The prolog where you kill innocent people and wizards. Prior to that, the most we saw was ghost n goblins of you having sex in a graveyard and Satan kidnapping her. That was like 10 seconds. The music too! Got me hooked immediately. It cost $70 back on the day when other games cost $50. But it was incredible. Everything people praise FF7 for was there in FFIV. Characters dying. Complex storyline.

[@pallyxav7597]

Same for me. I was the same age and had the same experience. I identified with Kain a lot. Since then I had always had a soft spot for dragoons.

[@Blknamor]

🫶🏾

[@edwardrichard2561]

Mine too. It was the first rpg I played.

[@SG-jq5vt]

I love how Kain ‘jumps’ in and out of the party. And every time he lands back into it, he makes a big impact! Awesome way to design a character’s story in reference to his mechanics.

[@joshcee3362]

As a 10 year old...I played FF4 (FF2 US) back on the SNES...it was my first RPG and turned me into a life-long FF fan, still loving the series almost 30 years later.

[@ajaverill08]

Same here. My older stepbrother had the original final fantasy but wouldn't let me play it. So 4 was my first and loved it

[@stephanieyvonne9436]

Same. I was 12 then now I’m 42 and it’s still my favorite game.

[@nickurannie8610]

😊

[@joshdrewpic]

YES! Same! Before then, I didn't know games could make me feel things. It's the first game that made me cry. It completely blew my mind

[@nigma195]

Same.

[@doublestarships646]

The biblical undertones with moon people is what sets this game apart. My first RPG ever and my favorite game of all time.

[@VeilSideZ32]

FF4 is such a gem, it was my first FF and my favorite to this day, 5 and 6 are following that favourite title of mine

[@maidcafejenifer]

I would cry tears of pure joy if Square were to do a proper remake of 4 and 6, they are my absolute favorites 😍

[@Enharmony1625]

My preference would be that they remaster the existing FF4 remake and make it available on modern platforms, and then do a full proper remake of FF6!

[@dylanfuller8146]

Yes definitely! I would even like a remake for 5, I love the whole class system in that one.

[@Sniperbear13]

the Pixel remaster of 6 does something wonderful though.

[@joshshrum2764]

We need Chrono trigger, done like live a live, but I’d like it being more proper widescreen, and close up over zoomed out, but they could separate the backgrounds so they pop out better.

[@HoganLegDropSoup]

Why? So they can mess them up like they did Final Fantasy 7?

[@neoshadowdukeofgames8223]

My favorite fact was golbez’s HP translating to his emotional state in both FF4 & FF4:TAY

[@ryeastra262]

If you raise Tellah’s level over 70 he will eventually be able to cast Meteor, that much I found out on my own.

[@kylesmith8383]

I still think this is my favorite FF game. The beauty and simplicity of the story allows it to really shine. i actually kind of really like how you can't build your party, but Forced through story beats to use certain party members for different parts of the game.

[@chrisnatale5901]

I've been obsessed with this game since I was a kid. Didn't think there was anything new I could learn about it, but almost all of the items described here are news to me. Well done!

[@favioferreira8921]

16:07 “”Cain” was possibly the worst “loyal friend” name in the history of history.” That quote made me laugh, although I think back then he didn’t fully understand the story.

[@gzsprout]

One of my GOATS. Absolutely set a standard for what an RPG could be.

[@SiliconSlyWolf]

I think some of the re-added scenes add some context between Cecil and Golbez, but I feel it really clouded up the nature of the world's backstory of humans on the blue planet, Kluya, and the events leading up to when humans started learning magic vs. comments of ancient magic powers.

[@lrod312]

I remember a friend from school loaned me this game back in the summer of 2002. It was bundled as Final Fantasy Chronicles on the PS one. I played it right after beating my very first play-through of FF9, a lot of the references to it in FF9 now clicked and made sense. It was my first 16bit era FF game. It’ll always have special place in my heart. My friend let me keep it all those years ago and I still have the case to this day although the CDs have long stopped working, before it became available in the App Store I used to re-play it from time to time on emulators. Idk how I found the time to keep up with FF4, FF8, Chrono Trigger and FF10 all in 1 summer 😂

[@LifeintheJon]

Love hearing production stories and histories. The Golbez hp informs so well how much thought and detail goes into things. Not always, but maybe more than we think. Evil and atonement, what a fun opening message to level up.

[@matthagen67]

Good to see FFIV getting some love. Please do more videos about the NES and SNES-era Final Fantasies. I'd love to see, for instance, a review of the FFII manga by Yoshitaka Amano, or the video on the original story ideas for FFII (just to give a couple of examples).

[@retrorobbgaming]

It isn’t a manga but a short novelization. It is super interesting and although the story is actually a bit different then the game it absolutely gives some interesting context to stuff that happens in the game. (Especially the leonhart stuff) To me it made the game even more enjoyable. Sucks it hasn’t been fully translated but it’s very cool piece of history!

[@dragonlord45461]

ff4 also has three of the best back ground music of any final fantasy game those being red wings the song playing in opening where the air ships are flying theme of love the song that plays when you help rosa in the dessert oasis town and battle theme 2 this one is one of the random bgms that plays during a random encounter

[@ProjectDevilEye]

I'm _very_ surprised I didn't catch the Golbez HP setting, I'm fluent enough to have recognized that had I just stopped to pronounce it myself. Great find!

[@ariwl1]

I'm forever thankful that FF4 was my introduction to the JRPG world. It's fun and epic and goofy and exciting while also being fairly accessible gameplaywise. Certainly there are much better games, even within FF proper, that are better than 4 in just about every category, but 4 set my baseline for what I love and appreciate about the series and the genre as a whole.

[@skyrendvt]

This is probably my favorite facts video so far. Simply because I did not know ANY of the facts in the video. Great job.

[@doublestarships646]

I never understood the "easy" versions of North America Final Fantasy games. Both Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy are literally simplified versions of Ultima which is a hard Western RPG series. We were playing hardcore RPGs for years like Wizardry, Ultima, and Rogue. It's kind of insulting for them to think that but my guess is that they probably felt that the console crowd of Westerners were REALLY new to RPGs and they wanted to play it safe.

[@Veladus]

A notoriously nationalistic culture thinks they're better? shockedpikachu.jpg

[@doublestarships646]

@@Veladus Yeah lol

[@leshpar]

The first RPG I ever beat as a kid was FF4. This game led to a lifelong love of RPGs for me to where I am even developing a JRPG now in the style of FF4 and DQ5. FF4 is still my favorite even though I've played all of them except 3 and 13. (I don't count 11, but I have played 14.) I did not know any of these. That's how obscure these facts were and I am really glad for the work put into this video.

[@nocturnalnights27]

Always great to see FF4 getting some love, excellent video keep up the good work 👏

[@ericolivencia]

I like that you mostly - if not exclusively- used the Secret of Mana OST for your bg music. Two of the best! (For your next video use chrono trigger!)

[@brocmt]

Anyone familiar with FF4: Free Enterprise or speedruns of FF4 will be familiar with both of the bugs mentioned. There's another bug that gets used a lot in some randomizer flagsets like the item-duplication glitch, or the RNG manipulation done in some instances to trigger a specific random encounter during the Giant of Babil dungeon (a useful EXP grind location in certain speedrun or randomizer routings). FF4: Free Enterprise is a lot fun to both play and watch races of. Even complete newbies to randomizer-modified ROMs can get their feet wet with an easy, casual-style flagset with lots of free character and key item checks and all the MP, item, and EXP bugs, or more hardcore runners and racers can apply rules like no free characters or key items, everything would be behind a boss and all aforementioned bugs are patched out.

[@veghesther3204]

Like MP under flow the revive Glitch is ALSO SNES version only BOTH of those Glitches are NOT on the PS1 onwards versions of FF4.

[@animal10.05]

Me: "Facts you probably didn't know about Final Fantasy 4 (2), Sure, bet I know at least half." Also Me: "I literally didn't know any of those."

[@ariannaroncato5361]

The First FF i played, for me One of the best 😊. Being italian i understood the Divina Commedia references from the start, i love how japanese people can appreciate a culture so diffrent from their own. Sorry for my english

[@aardvarkusa]

Any reason you chose Secret of Mana as your background music for the video?

[@quentonrobertson8337]

Thank you guys for what you do :) ff4 was my first (and for that reason my favourite) final fantasy game. I've played it numerous times, but still learned some new stuff

[@Kitagawa_Senpai]

I knew about the MP underflow, the 64 stair glitch, and the Upt Co glitches. Those were fun to watch

[@tiochocmanbananaespinoza7278]

Man, I only recently began playing FF IV for the first time and I really am grateful I did, all this time I took from granted the narrative ways of modern videogames and just playing through FF IV has led me to appreciate how a somewhat simple game from before I was even born has such a deep story with such "relatable" situations, silly as they may be sometimes. I know for a fact that FF IV has a big impact in FF games to come at the very least as I've played FF I and have heard a lot of praise about FF VI

[@dragonprinceHP]

I played this game on the SNES and I loved the glitch of item duplication. I am upset that they fixed that for the steam version lol - I loved using it - to get 99 Excaliburs and then throw them in the battle with Zeromus.

[@Something9008]

I'd really love for the lost famicom version of FF4 to surface!

[@SpookyHelder]

That magic glitch is funny, because there's a slightly similar thing in Dragon Quest III, when you recruit the maximum amount of characters, you learn all the spells (or a bunch at least), but the downside is that you can never cast healing/return spells outside of battle again.

[@222047]

im still convinced from a throwaway statement i read that ff7 was initially supposed to be a detective story in new york. = Parasite Eve. Aya Brea is like a femaile Cloud, and Melissa is straight up Sephiroth. The mitochondria is essentially jenova. Her captain is clearly Barret, Dr. Klemp is all Hojo. also a decent amount of Xenogears is like if Clouds story of DID was told with gundams.

[@azinyefantasy4445]

Other things. The remake had A monster list that couldn't be completed cause it contained the Medusa monster that only spawns on one specific square. Cecil starts the game controlled by golbez. It was his half human genes that made him snap out of it and was also the reason his father couldn't talk to him as telepathy was lunarian only. Cecil would have heard whispers. Not sure if it was true but supposedly Golbez intercepted his father's cries to Cecil and that how he knew where he was. 'caller' enemies could fail to call but most spawn infinite enemies. If you had the right speed you could spawn kill overnight and make Cecil 99 thus making everyone else 96-99 when rejoining. The first time you can do this is before the magus sisters.

[@ChrisZerotani]

8th fact: Golbez real name is Theodore, and his (and Cecil) parents names are Kluya and Cecilia (accordingly with FF4 for DS)

[@travisjordan3853]

Also Golbez is a mistranslation of Golubaeser, also known as the Golubac Fly, a type of black fly that according to Serbian folklore were born from the corpse of a Ala, a dragon or serpent-like demon associated with the wind. The writers most likely got the name from the book, 'Devils-Their Origins and History' written by J. Charles Wall, similar to how a large number of the monsters from Final Fantasy III were named after creatures mentioned in the 'Book of Imaginary Beings' by Jorge Luis Borges.

[@kaleajadesilver8918]

Theodor without the e is the correct spelling of his original birth name before Zemus controlled him and changed it.

[@joshdillon9637]

Golbez's HP is by far the most interesting for me.

[@illerhumpy3867]

Kurt Busiek: " I don't like the names 'Cecil' & 'Cain', but I am going to rename this other guy and call him 'LORD BLAST' cause I liked Mary Poppins. Everyone else on the team thinking to themselves: *shaking their heads* "This shits gunna get cancelled for sure..."

[@stevelegreid]

Well done with the Secret of Mana OST in the background👍🏼

[@MidnightWonko]

Well, as someone with a vaunted interest in speedruns, I certainly knew about the revival glitch and the MP underflow glitch. The other five were unknown to me, though.

[@RippleTKO]

Another amazing video! Thanks for creating amazing FF content!

[@SG-jq5vt]

4 is my second favorite! I’ve loved it dearly, and played it through it’s multiple versions a number of times. It absolutely captures the classic high fantasy feel with expertise, but it adds it’s own unique flair to the story. Kain FTW!

[@akiinmoonlight79]

FF4 will forever be an masterpiece 💖

[@AndersonTenecela]

FF4 is probably my favorite FF game of the 2D era

[@studiodsr]

The picture you used of square headquarters is downtown Los Angeles

[@thepaper888]

Don't forget tons of old school rpgs on ps1/ps2 are available on ps3 eshop. Old Square, xenogears, parasite eve, chrono trigger, so many.

[@kaleajadesilver8918]

16:30-16:42 or whatever, I wonder how much of the artworks for the comic has seen the light of day??

[@fistfullofsalt6311]

Ah yes, Final Fantasy 2/4 I can gladly dub to be 'My first Final Fantasy', and I'm so glad it was. I recently came across someone streaming who has played it quite a few times, but never knew you could get Summon magics for Rydia from enemy encounters, though it was only 3, I have a feeling it may have been the start of the introduction of Blue Magic into the game as the summons, when cast, would use one of their own attacks on enemies such as Goblin Punch or Beak, but it wasn't ever fully implemented. So many fun facts about this game that lots of people still don't know.

[@gaignunkukai9461]

Back when I played this there still was no internet so for the longest time it was ff2 for me for ages. That aside everything about that game was such an amazing story to Cecil doubting about being a dark knight and the sacrifice that porlam and polam made but turning themselves into stone by their own will which couldn't be unbroken. So many moments in this game and in 6 as well that well did shape my personality on how to treat others despite what might be afflicting them. And believe me not every game can do such a thing and they are very few and far between. But 4 and 6 definitely hit those notes and an amazing soundtrack to go with it these game will always be on my favorites list for all time right along side of chrono trigger and the very underrated legend of dragoon. Can't forget to add chrono cross for its incredible soundtrack can't count the times in another world how I'd just let that song play over and over its so peaceful and beautiful. And my last honorable mention for crisis core reunion I feel in love with the story of Zack when I was playing ff7 but then finding out you get the full experience of what Zack goes through I know that game wasn't for everyone but I have yet to get through the final scene of crisis core without being reduced to tears because although Zack was indeed solider he never let it compromise the good person that he was and along the way losing track of time and not receiving those letters aerith wrote for him daily I really feel for Zack Fair that it's ended the way it did to cover up and loose ends shrina was doing I love games that can do such incredible things to really pull you in and love the character you play.

[@Kaboomboo]

"Cain was possibly the worst 'loyal friend name' in the history of history" lmao he's not wrong though. Kain killed Abel out of jealousy.

[@AndersonTenecela]

The FF4 comic I find interesting in how tight the relationship is between Disney and Square Enix

[@jaykknight2248]

Love the secret of mana music in the background

[@ReaverPrime]

First. Also, I'm loving all the homage Endwalker is paying to FFIV. Except Storm's Crown. F___ that fight!

[@bashvash]

Second*

[@Veloso-hf1ux]

Barbariccia dislike your comment!

[@danfruzzetti7604]

why SoM music for a feature on FF? interesting approach

[@Shoenin]

I wouldve been interested in seeing Mike Mignola draw FF4 characters, that sounds kind of awesome really.

[@FantasyYeet]

One of the best FF. You had to be there at launch.

[@justifiedfun9811]

My first Final Fantasy game and I Love this game and story

[@HallyVee]

Interesting to use Secret of Mana music.

[@retromemories8522]

I only knew #1 in part. Great finds!

[@Kassadinftw]

I want a movie of 4 and 6.

[@ramgladore]

I must have purchased Final Fantasy 4 at least five different times. Twice for the SNES to replace my original which I lost when my mom let go of her storage locker after she offered to hold onto my game collection.

[@beinghappy1312]

Why is there secret of mana music playing in the background?

[@Rumtrinker]

9:30 Is this Zeromus EG ? i saw this in a newer versión of FF4 and you needed to pass a test with all characters to be available

[@kaleajadesilver8918]

It is. They reused the sprite for the Lunar trials seen in the GBA and PSP versions of 4.

[@franwex]

Crazy to think that FF4 to FF10 is a about a ten year gap. FF10 to today is more than a 20 year gap.

[@moonwolfv671]

Hadn't heard of any of these, though I would've thought the first one sounded reasonable. Like the sound of the MP glitch.

[@erics8192]

I wish they'd give FF6 the 3D remake treatment that FF4 got.

[@paulnewhouse5126]

The piano music from secret of mana really made my day, can I get a link please?

[@zabuza3663]

I have ffiv pixel remastered on ps4, ffiv advance for gba, ffxiv 3d remake on steam and the DS, and I have the after years on steam

[@Tallcat_TV]

Love these vids. The interpolated FMVs look really bad though. Original frame rate is greatly preferred.

[@RedSpade37]

My time has come! Okay, FF4 is my favorite of the series, and I like to think I know just about everything there is to know about it, so I will watch this and edit the comment afterwards and let you know if I actually knew the 7 Facts! Be right back! Edit: Wow! Only ones I knew were the glitches! Thanks for the info! Great video!

[@otaha1988]

I've seen some pretty ridiculous things in final fantasy 4. I don't know how but my brother was able to beat kain in the first encounter. He ended up using a cure2 item though.

[@thebozzIDW]

Didn't know about the development history of the original FF IV, which got cancelled... I do wonder what they kept in the final version of FF IV and what the original plan were for the original before they cancelled it and renamed their (at the time) FF V to IV.

[@DolFunDolhpinVtuber]

Why is it that Japan always thought games would be too tough for westerners back then? Mario lost levels, FF IV, ect.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

Mario Lost Levels wasn't due to Japan, but the head of Nintendo of America at the time who felt that it was a cheap hack of the first one and that Americans would feel ripped off.

[@Vorylenus]

I hate how in America we get the "easy" version. Still find it to be rather insulting... especially knowing why they made Final Fantasy Mystic Quest...

[@dragonlord45461]

ff4 does have a rather nasty glitch on the super Nintendo and ds remake where in if you've beaten the game twice on the same profile during the third playthrough during the part with the hovercraft if you crossed the rocky waters and the game froze when you loaded back in the hovercraft would be on one side you on the other with no way of continuing the short of restarting from square one one the first playthrough

[@kingbertskorner]

I knew all of these except number 6!

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

Not sure if this was a retro callback but the fact that they named the kid in FF2 "Kain", which is a descendant of the dragoons and is also pretty close to Ricard HIGHWIND, will never not be a cool reference.

[@AtariSwitch]

I used cast life on enemies for fun on FF2. I didn't know it was good for drops. I was pretty annoyed when I heard 2 was really Easy Type. They not only turned the difficulty down, they dummied out a bunch of enemies, items, and character abilities to make it less complicated. All that stuff is still in the code, they could've just had the option for American or Normal.

[@kylesmith8383]

Kind of glad that comic didn't happen. I love kurt busiek, but changing Cecils name would not have gone over well

[@kylesmith8383]

FF comics exploring different worlds before or after the event's of the games would be really cool. Id love that

[@shadenox8164]

@@kylesmith8383 Yeah it sounded amazing until he mentioned that and I was like "What the hell dude?" glad to hear he realised later he was being dumb though.

[@briandoss9232]

Did not know any of those. Fascinating.

[@ACE-eb7ce]

So which one is the best version to play?

[@jatabo1574]

That's really up to you, but I personally recommend the PSP version if you want the classic experience with remastered visuals, plus all the extra content that was added to the GBA version; and the NDS/PC (Steam) version, which is basically a remake with voice casting, revised dialogue and extra gameplay mechanics to shake things up.

[@trevorcarson5156]

I'm gonna lose my literal shit if I know these facts. You've been warned. I'll be back in 15 minutes

[@thend4427]

One of my fav 2d ff games

[@rajlaxmisharma5748]

Explain final fantasy after years story please

[@churchking2527]

"Cain" was the worst loyal friend name in the history of history. .... Ummm.... Yeah.... Almost like they are foreshadowing something....

[@bahamut191180]

can someone give me a link of this beatyfull piano background musik of secret of mana

[@marx819]

Does the xp glitch work on ps1?

[@Horis_LaCel]

I never played ffiv, but I enjoyed the video nonetheless.

[@anonymousanonymous5732]

I hope NEs FF4 leaks one day

[@SeanChristieMallon]

Super interesting thank you

[@eatYoself]

Appreciate that Kurt Busiek rightly called that the fan base would be upset with the changes. Wish more writers were attuned to the sentiments of the fan base.

[@miloclarke6171]

Life 2 will bring back the monster so you can kill it again.

[@jaimelopez-jv6ec]

Estoy bien viajado tuve que repetir cada fact un chingo de veces

[@thaituano2145]

FFIV was my 8th FF game and I love how even now this franchise can be full of pleasant surprises. I recently played the 3D Remake and its sequels and overall I enjoyed the games. Reading its development history would only make me like the games more, as they were a cornerstone for modern approaches to storytelling and gameplay integration. The gameplay was the greatest highlight for me because of its charm and emphasis on smart strategy and team management. The bosses all have great gimmicks that always keep you on the edge regardless of party level (iykyk). FFVII onwards was a bit easy for me (FFXVI included XD), so IV is the perfect reminder of how brutal and ridiculous classic games can be. The character development and dialogue lacks intricacy at times, but the high notes could still leave a great impact.

[@madProgenitorDeity]

8:00 suicidal enemies bug sounds like the Philadelphia experiment

[@gethermedel3620]

I wish they still have this attitude and notion that they wouldn't release the game if it wasn't up to their standards. I'm not sure if they're still practicing this OR their standards have dived way down. such a sad time for the Final Fantasy Franchise, they clearly don't know what to do with it..

[@tomkarho]

VII remake is a case in point that they very much still care about quality. Originally the game development (at least graphics and animation wise) was outsourced but SE took the development in-house when their work wasn't up to snuff. That being said, I think the people involved with remake were mostly people involved in the original so their expectations would have been on a higher level since it was "their baby" being messed with.

[@gethermedel3620]

@@tomkarho I "kinda" appreciate what they did to the remake, it kinda sticked to the original BUT somehow they also messed up the whole story BECAUSE they wanted to milk the shit out of it, which is okay BUT they should've made sure the timelines where consistent, apparently it's not now. with regards to FFXVI, we'll let wait for the actual gameplay and story, cause FFXV was trash AF.

[@dytgyfgyffuh243]

Please make a final fantasy facts 13 video

[@disturbedrebirth]

I dont get why they change names when translating. I hate it in Dragon Quest 11.

[@renefischer1333]

First :p, my first ff there ffx. Awesome time