Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums > Final Fantasy: Nerds in Paradise > Final Fantasy IV > Just beat it! Discuss definate spoilers!!!

[NINJA_Ryu]

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.

[Wolf Kanno]

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...

[Zeromus_X]

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.

[Ender]

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.

[Darth Cid]

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

[NINJA_Ryu]

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

[Evastio]

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)

[NINJA_Ryu]

Cept for Kain, We need resolution! Also, it would be cool to see how the lunarians ended up, after leaving earth orbit ^ ^