firion is cool
This games mechanics are bizarre and several mechanics dont work. Later versions didnt fix most of them problems.
People like talking about the borked growth system, but my problems are geared more towards the awful dungeons and pacing.
just a psa: igdb regards this as the entry for the north american snes version of FFIV, not the famicom original FFII.
tfw this is one of the lowest games on the site cuz people dont realize this is ff4
This game is great if you are just beating the game and literal hell if you are trying to 100%. Getting enough Adamantium or Adamantite or whatever for the special ultimate items are such a waste of time, and you're already basically un-killable anyways, so what's the point?
It's still a great game. Music and designs of monsters are out of this world, and the story is good in that pulpy kind of way. Woolsey for life.
It's still a great game. Music and designs of monsters are out of this world, and the story is good in that pulpy kind of way. Woolsey for life.
Still a pretty fun FF game, but the DS version is much better.
Final Fantasy 4 (FF2 on SNES, people here seem to not know this lol) is when the series really started to shape into what it is today. FF4 really stepped forward with developed characters and world. Now characters were predetermined in their own class based on who they are. The story was a bigger focus and with more dialogue. The gameplay being closer to FF1 refined and without class upgrading. Characters would come in and go in your party changing your battle options. For an early SNES title FF4 is a great RPG that really set the standard for the all time greats to come. It still holds up reasonably well today too.
I hate videogames.
Spoony bard
I've just realized, I don't even like having fun. Like not really, fun is sorta overrated when you get down and dirty and you really stop thinking about it. Who even honestly likes having fun certainly not I, certainly not the people who have designed this game.
I see what their mentality was here, they thought giving you encounters with enemies that could inflict lethal status ailments with no way to resist it on top of esuna being able to miss a good way to piss you off. You know what, they were dead on and honestly that is the BEST thing about this game.
Normally when I play a game. I intend to have fun. And in a way that is kinda boring right? Like you EXPECT games to be fun. And I REALLY see what they were doing here, you know what they said? Lets put an encounter with SIX enemies that are able to confuse you and kill your whole party and you are gonna LIKE IT!
You really have to respect that, because they had the fucking balls to go against the wave. They said FUCK all of that fun bullshit. And the geniuses behind this masterpiece game design, I say thank you.
I see what their mentality was here, they thought giving you encounters with enemies that could inflict lethal status ailments with no way to resist it on top of esuna being able to miss a good way to piss you off. You know what, they were dead on and honestly that is the BEST thing about this game.
Normally when I play a game. I intend to have fun. And in a way that is kinda boring right? Like you EXPECT games to be fun. And I REALLY see what they were doing here, you know what they said? Lets put an encounter with SIX enemies that are able to confuse you and kill your whole party and you are gonna LIKE IT!
You really have to respect that, because they had the fucking balls to go against the wave. They said FUCK all of that fun bullshit. And the geniuses behind this masterpiece game design, I say thank you.
just straight up not fun
NES(is this FF_USA in japan?)
1/4 SMTDR
This was my first Final Fantasy game I'd ever played and I still love it to this day. Great music, great art, battle system is what you'd expect from a Final Fantasy game. It's a great time. I love this entry the most!
Classic FF
Everyone likes to hate on Final Fantasy II, and I really can't blame them. The battle system is really weird and rewards aggressively grinding, and ultimately it doesn't hold up very well at all. But for some reason, I really love this game and the story, and the grinding is fun for me. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't like aggressively grinding, though.
Sure is a game!
It's very bad but I love Furion's design so who can say?
This isn't FF2 on Famicom, but FF2 on Famicom is also good
Joguei muito na infância, namoral...
I played this game because Professional Video Game Expert Tim Rogers will review it for his Action Button Reviews Series. I'm treating his reviews like a little book club: if he announces he will do a review and I'm interested in the game, I want to play it to form my own opinion.
The hook of this game is incredible. Cecil decides that he no longer wants to participate in the evildoings of his country. With one final task from the king, Cecil unwittingly becomes a terrorist, and must atone for his sins and fight his former country.
If anyone would have told me this was the plot of the game instead of the generally accepted idea that "This is a generic fantasy setting and game" I would have played it years ago! If you would have told me that the main character regularly has sex and it's handled in a mature and not creepy way I would have downloaded the ROM immediately.
This game is also easy, but in a good way. I nearly 100%ed the game in 24 hours without a guide. I do not say this to brag. I say this to show that this game is designed so incredibly well that a doofus like me can beat it, and beat nearly everything! There are some esoteric things in the last few rooms of the last dungeon that I did not do and did not know existed, but, on my own and because of the good writing and game design, I was able to obtain everything in this game, including all the optional bosses and summons.
Very early in the game the party obtains a hovercraft. From that point on, there is almost no overworld traversal that requires walking or random encounters. More games should do this! It made exploration breezy and fun.
This game is not 5 stars to me because it's my rating and that's how I feel! I also thought that the game was going to end, it felt like a climax, and then there was like 3-4 more hours of game and everything that happened in what I thought was the climax happened again? So not my favorite pacing in the last few hours.
Don't let anyone dissuade you from playing this version because they say the localization is bad. It's good and fun and charming.
The hook of this game is incredible. Cecil decides that he no longer wants to participate in the evildoings of his country. With one final task from the king, Cecil unwittingly becomes a terrorist, and must atone for his sins and fight his former country.
If anyone would have told me this was the plot of the game instead of the generally accepted idea that "This is a generic fantasy setting and game" I would have played it years ago! If you would have told me that the main character regularly has sex and it's handled in a mature and not creepy way I would have downloaded the ROM immediately.
This game is also easy, but in a good way. I nearly 100%ed the game in 24 hours without a guide. I do not say this to brag. I say this to show that this game is designed so incredibly well that a doofus like me can beat it, and beat nearly everything! There are some esoteric things in the last few rooms of the last dungeon that I did not do and did not know existed, but, on my own and because of the good writing and game design, I was able to obtain everything in this game, including all the optional bosses and summons.
Very early in the game the party obtains a hovercraft. From that point on, there is almost no overworld traversal that requires walking or random encounters. More games should do this! It made exploration breezy and fun.
This game is not 5 stars to me because it's my rating and that's how I feel! I also thought that the game was going to end, it felt like a climax, and then there was like 3-4 more hours of game and everything that happened in what I thought was the climax happened again? So not my favorite pacing in the last few hours.
Don't let anyone dissuade you from playing this version because they say the localization is bad. It's good and fun and charming.
once and never again
el tiempo me hice apreciar mas este juego....incluso con plot twist pitero
garbage
FFIV for Super Famicom is an AMAZING game. The translation in the original US version is terrible and is why this game gets 2 stars.
Emulated
Oh dang, that awesome intro, am I right?
In my youth, I had a massive crush on JRPG's. Well, anything made by Squaresoft, really. The Final Fantasy series held my interest all the way until FFIX or FFX even though I never really understood the plot of a single one of them. I love turn-based battles, fantasy/sci-fi elements, and sweet, overpowering orchestral soundtracks, so I was hooked even if I didn't know what was going on. FFII (or IV in Japan, of course), has all my favorite elements, but playing it so many years later makes the game seem pretty slow-moving, but the battles are still fun and the game is generally still pretty great. Plus the fancy SNES graphics as you fly the airship around and the transitions between scenes and battles were a bump up from the hugely important NES debut. Overall, excellent.
And the final battle was great!
Review from thedonproject.com
In my youth, I had a massive crush on JRPG's. Well, anything made by Squaresoft, really. The Final Fantasy series held my interest all the way until FFIX or FFX even though I never really understood the plot of a single one of them. I love turn-based battles, fantasy/sci-fi elements, and sweet, overpowering orchestral soundtracks, so I was hooked even if I didn't know what was going on. FFII (or IV in Japan, of course), has all my favorite elements, but playing it so many years later makes the game seem pretty slow-moving, but the battles are still fun and the game is generally still pretty great. Plus the fancy SNES graphics as you fly the airship around and the transitions between scenes and battles were a bump up from the hugely important NES debut. Overall, excellent.
And the final battle was great!
Review from thedonproject.com
once again. i played this from start to finish.
if you put a gun to my head and asked me to summarize the plot of Final Fantasy II (IV), just fucking pull the trigger, man. I don't remember shit, and i literally beat this just last week.
shit man, how the FUCK is final fantasy such a massive worldwide franchise??
that final boss theme was kick ass though.
if you put a gun to my head and asked me to summarize the plot of Final Fantasy II (IV), just fucking pull the trigger, man. I don't remember shit, and i literally beat this just last week.
shit man, how the FUCK is final fantasy such a massive worldwide franchise??
that final boss theme was kick ass though.
This review contains spoilers
Final Fantasy II or Final Fantasy IV everywhere else is a really good game. The only flaws with the game were the porting job, where it hurts some of the character moments like when Tellah died, most of the characters didn't really show emotion about it, which I'm assuming is only in this port, another thing I didn't really enjoy about the game was that there's a lot of random encounters, which I personally do not like, and the final problem I had with the game is that you cannot save anywhere you want, which makes fighting some bosses a pain, like zeromus for example. This game has many more good aspects than bad flaws, for example, most of the time characters actually feel like characters and the story is really good, some of the twists in it like Yang and Cid not actually dying or Golbez, who is the major villain for most of the game being Cecil's brother was insane. The Final Boss was incredible to fight, its theme is a jam and the sprite work was fantastic! I love how there are vehicles in this game, which show off the SNES, and going to the moon was INSANE!