I always loved the concept of this, playing a party of side characters who died in the main game

“It’s not about our death it’s about what we died for”

No matter how many personalities he can split. It'll always be *Unggaaaahhhhh!!*

Kain: I'm gonna be a dragoon 😢 FFIV

The whole conversation along with the Pandemonium ost truly makes me feel that I am facing the ultimate battle! The feels are awesome!

Very old video but I just need to say the theme for the dungeon is awesome

After a few years , i cant Stop to cry to the ending and The Sweat and Blood Everyone had to go throught , Soul of Rebirth Is too perfect for exist

I remember playing this on the GBA and I did like the extra story involving these guys.

I would like to know more about Emperor Matheus's past. His megalomaniacal behavior and belief that absolute power is the only thing that keeps the world running can demonstrate some trauma related to a lack of control over events in his life and perhaps envy towards some people in his life. Now, his possible need to govern the three planes of existence, may reveal something extremely personal. Like, wanting to decide who lives and who dies. Who does he think is more worthy of living and who does he think deserves more punishment and who deserves eternal rest when he dies, revealing a feeling of injustice, hence he possibly divided his own soul by instead of mastering both spectral aspects of reality as one soul, because he wants total effectiveness in this selection process, that things happen in the way that he considers to be the perfect one, and that the universe that constantly tormented him approves. Another thing that I realized about the Emperor, is the reason for his belief that the human being is imperfect and evil to be absolute. He believes that the human being has lost love, because people like Leon preferred to value their ambitions over their loved ones, and although it benefited the Empire, as we saw through the "Emperor of Light" part, he is completely impartial regarding his judgment of the human race due to his eyes being constantly closed, so, whether we belonged to the Empire or the rebellion, in the end, we would be just another despicable and corrupt human, the difference is that belonging to the Empire, you would not be exterminated because you were needed as a soldier. He also believes that the human being has a weak and wrong sense of justice, because as we saw throughout the game, the heroes make an alliance with pirates, who are known for looting, slaughtering and enslaving people, and a thief, however who knows if the rebels hadn't other thieves at their service, these less moralists than Paul, when the heroes should refuse to negotiate with people who, without an enemy to face like the Empire, would be hurting, bribing, killing, blackmailing and corrupting morally people who were honest and respectful of the law, and that the only reason for them to work with the heroes is because the Empire is a common enemy.

The audacity of the Emperor to demand forgiveness after the shit he pulled warrants a kick in the balls so hard everyone from Pandamonium to Arruboth can feel it, even if they don’t possess the parts.

God damn the Pandemonium theme makes this shit feel so fucking cool dude

Emperor: I know I was basically Hitler before and sold my soul to the devil and all, but I'm totally fine now and am basically God, and you should all forgive and trust me! Minwu and co: lol no gfy

Here's a thought, you're fighting the guy whose face is on the title screen, it wasn't until a port to GBA and PSP that you could do Soul of Rebirth.

I actually thought Firion was a really cool main character.

If you want to get surprised and face a very tough battle, osmose the Emperor's MP away. He will resort to physical attacks that hit like a freight train, all the while healing himself by a huge amount. I don't know whether stacking loads of high-level protect spells can hinder him if this happens. Not sure if blink stacks, but if it does, it might help a great deal in allowing characters to evade his attacks.

Screw the Pixel Remaster for not having this mode because they wanted to stay "true to the original version" or whatever. Of all the classic FFs (1-6) and their subsequent versions this one had the best bonus content in form of Soul of Rebirth as it actually added something to the overall story. I freaking LOVE the idea that even the pure light form of the Emperor is still a narcissistic egomaniac asshole lol. Also Minwu destroying everything once he gets Ultima feels really good in story context.

Sadly the Pixel Remaster didn't Add This....

The song is BANGING i love FF music

Well, good theory but it was told, that Cecils father was Lunarian from the Moon, so Firion is not his father. xD But I believe, that II and IV are in the same world on different time. Both games have even Mysidia, which is kingdom of mages. And in IV´s sequel, the after years Kain told Cecil son, Ceodore that he became a dragoon to follow his father footsteps, and he died wile fighting against the evil Emperor. It´s actually quite cool, that these games have some clear connections :D

Scott looks like ,king Edgar

> SuperBoss > Defeated in 3 minutes

Edward is Scott's descendant, Yang is Josef(Yo-seph)'s descendant, and Kain is Richard's descendant. So Final Fantasy IV is set 17 years after Final Fantasy II.

12:03 ...Aaaaaaaannnnnd 23 years later we still can't be sure of that! :p 12:17 No it's not because there was never a sequel. >_>

I really hated the leveling system of FF2 but the story was great

The animations are sick

Final Fantasy II would've been much better if they didn't give us dozens of long dungeons with high encounter rate. The cutscene and storyline are actually very good for its time.

Why does the version that was made almost 2 decades ago look much better than the "Pixel Remaster" version that was released in 2022?!

Man, Emperor cames 2 times back.

Minwu doing work, damn.

This game need to be remake

Geez, I have to try this game again... I somewhat enjoyed grinding for eternity but when I got to SoR I had several difficulties, just because I haven't looked for Blood Sword.

The starfall looks like ffvii meteor

The Pixel Remaster doesn't hold a candle to this, mainly because it's missing this entire segment which actually fleshed out the game. Shame, I would've been content with the PSP versions of FF1, FF2 and FF4 Complete Collection getting ported to Switch. The content added to each is just insane, and in a good way. Plus they looked gorgeous. I loved these games. Still do I might add.

Deep philosophical stuff

Josef out here doing his best

I can't help but read the text in the dialog in the way it would be portrayed in RABToons. Too funny.

sadly we dont have this mode in the pixel remake. at least i didnt find a way to ply it

little kain is there

Firing is neither Cecil's nor Golbez's father, Kluya is the name of their father and he is a Lunarian too, he protected the moon together with Fusoya.

Buff spells are way stronger when used on single target, rather than the whole team. You can easily break the game if you focus on one or two powerhouses with the rest acting as support.

If FFIV was an indirect sequel to FFII, then how was the Kingdom of Baron created? Where is Palamencia, did it disappeared?

why do i get the feeling this is gonna be Pandamonium 12 and Pandamonium 12 (Savage) in FFXIV

David Bowie

I had the GBA and preferred the 2nd game; I found the blood sword and made the emperor my bitch haha

Does nobody else notice Kain? Like, are you sure that FF IV is not an indirect sequel to FF II? because friggen Kain

what were they thinking with the pixelshitmasters???

I still havent beat the extra boss here it takes forever to level the weaklings

Theory: I believe the Emperor INTENDED to be slain here, as his punishment for what the whole being did while alive. He wasn't lying when he said he intended to fulfil his penance.

2 Times clash, firion side and minwu side at the same time, so in other words when we defeating dark emperor on the other side this battle, huh?

666 likes. It suits to the Emperor.

God his boss form in this looks so much cooler than the one the main party is fighting X) I wish THIS was the final boss design instead of what we got! Also on the subject of questions, why did they hesitate/refuse eternal life? Idk if he was lying or what but he said his "good half" split from his "evil half", sooooooooo what's the prob here??? Edit: thanks for clearing up guys, makes more sense ^^. Now who agrees that THIS final boss form is twice as cool as the original FF2 final boss X)

Wait Kain from FF4 is the son of Ricard? Dayum

My characters always used double weapons. I felt like shield was pointless. Also, double damage, half of the time!

Cecil ancestor of Firion and Maria (His human side) Golbez ancestor of Firion and Maria ( human side) Kain ancestor of Kain and Ricard Highwind ( Kain was named after FF2 Kain who brought back the Dragooners) Rosa ancestor of Hilda and Gordon Edward ancestor of Hilda and Gordon Yang ancestor of Yosef/ Josef and Nelly his daughter The Twins ancestors of Mysidia/ Minwu Edge ancestor of Paul Rydia, maybe the Summoner people are born as a result of the Emperor calling monsters from hell, and overtime they became more peaceful and created their own homes underground.

Did they ever explain how Emperor Mateus took over both Heaven and Hell? xD

If Square remakes this game by making leveling system like FF7, that'd be wonderful. Story is good. Leveling system is garbage in FF2 .

i really hate why they couldn't make pixel remasters as good as this. i mean come on. even psp could give this much upgrade in graphic so wtf is the excuse with low res textures?

How come I never knew of this part of ff2? Probably need to so some searching.

I'm still confused. Why did they refuse eternal life? There was no evil left in the Light Emperor. Nothing stopping them from watching over their world from heaven.

i cant even make it past the first enemy encounter in the palace

So that's what Ultima 16 looks like.

the emperor is Michael Jackson Lol

I wаnt a remake of ff2...

The Emperor: "Please forgive me, i am good now and im sorry" Group: hm.. no? The Emperor: Fine, i kill you all then.

What's with all the FF2 and FF4 theory in the comments. They are unrelated. Most likely references,Easter eggs or names borrowed from past games. Example is Garland from FFIX which is unrelated to FF1 Garland or shinra from X-2 implying that FFX is connected to FFVII but there are a lot of holes in that theory. Gilgamesh from FFXV is unrelated to the Gilgamesh we all know who travels and collecting weapons from other final fantasy worlds. Theorys are just theorys and most of them are all inaccurate.

i gotta get this version....

A male version of Azshara

Use teleport!!!!!

should have indulged leon's fantasy of ruling the empire.

I didn't play ff ii yet, but where is firion ?

in some versions, you have hilda in your party

Is ff2 music always that good?

This game might suck but the music is really nice.

kain? as in FF4 kain?

I hate when I buff my character with many buff and she just cancel my buff with that damn lv 16 dispell

U dont even need to grind to beat the last boss u can just have all your characters to holy flare or ultima then have them all low health and u win lol

Kain is Ricard's son, at least that's what everything points to, maybe Cecil's father could be Firion? u know, the white hair and all

ffiv kain's here

What is this final??? 😢

too bad in the Soul of Rebirth you don't have the Blood Sword to just melt the HP of this final boss

Yeah, yeah...everyone tries to make the Emperor look like a big deal. Well, nuts to that I say. He got killed by four guys that were already dead...that HE killed, to boot! Plus...why does killing him in the original game have any impact at all? He's already in Hell, so...wouldn't he just, like, respawn in the same spot?

They should have put a more somber soundtrack to this would have made it 10x better

What a ultima.. i not use a ultima tome bro..

Такое чуйство что игарёк делали под приствки...ю..в..... Ибо когдп играешь на ПК создаётся впечатление что игра слишком идеальна!

Frog. Magic. Frog. Frog. Frog. Frog. . .

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After watching the latest "FF" today, I had to return here. And it is as I suspected. The thing is, "FF 2" and "FF: Tactics" were also based on "Game of Thrones" (or at least it was similar to the point the fandom makes constant comparisons between the show and the two "FFs"). This game doesn't feel right. It feels like a reboot/copy paste of sorts of both games. Olivier for example is an inferior copy of Emperor Matheus. Because the Emperor was actually a fascinating character to study. With Olivier, we only got a puppet to look at until Ultima shows up. Where's the fun in that ? And the political conflict ? "Tactics" handled it better. Dycedarg for example was a sick strayegist. Clive and Joshua's mother is simply a Karen like most people pointed out. Nothing special that makes her a fantasy level villain. I might as well have watched some soap opera if all she was gonna be was a toxic housewife/mother figure.

Why is this game so hated ? I liked it a lot.

How in the hell did Starfall only do that lil amount of damage !!?? This game is too damn easy

Why he looks a woman in his angel from.?