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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

FF4 will always hold a special place in my heart. It was my 1st introduction to both FF & Square. I had bought every international version (except the Pixel Remaster, which I have mixed feelings on) of the game starting from the PS1. A close friend of my had the SNES version, before selling it (still wish I could have bought it from them), so it was my 1st exposure to the game before I started buying it regularly.

Love the secret of mana opening theme while talking about ff4. Very fitting for 2 of the greatest games made ❤️

If there ever is a Stranger of Paradise 2, we should play as Golbez and his Four Fields. Rubicante in particular is an excellent character. And Golbez is beyond fantastic in the Dissidia games.

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

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!

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

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 😂

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

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.

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).

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!

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.

The gameplay may be simple and the difficulty is easier than most other mainline games but what truly shines in this game is the cast and character development also factoring in the events of the after years. For its time it's really impressive how interesting and engaging each character is with kain and rydia for example being two of the most known characters of their classes respectively.

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

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.

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.

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

4 is my favorite final fantasy, and one of my all time favorite games. It has aged, for sure, but I still love it...warts and all.

Wow super interesting information! My introduction to FFIV was on the PS1 when I was in middle school. I was obsessed with FF7 and went back to play FF1 & 2. I never completed it as a kid but recently did as an adult and it is now up there as one of my favorite Final Fantasy’s and one of my favorite games of all time.

Been playing this since the SNES and have played almost every variation. Thank you for this and giving me more history on my favorite game of all time.

i love ff4, probably my second favourite after 7. thanks for the amazing work guys.

FF IV (specifically the DS remake) is my favorite FF game so far, and one of my favorite games of all time. It's really interesting to know that it was originally going to be FF V.

My fave game ever. Still find new stuff after 30 years

before every 'Probably Didn't Know' video i put on my sunglasses, cross my arms and say "pfft, try me"

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.

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

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!)

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

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

Best battle theme in the entire series

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.

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.

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

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.

Kain Highwind is my favorite characters.

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

The fact that the FF4 we got was originally gonna be FF5 is kinda crazy

I see what you did there. You put 7 & Final Fantasy in the Title. You sneaky Petes you. Bravo, also queue the Leonardo pointing at the TV meme with his head replaced with cloud.

Congratulations, I've been a fan of 4 since release and you actually had some facts i was not aware of. Like the secret meaning of Golbez's HP total.

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.

Great video. Always appreciate when love is thrown towards the older games.

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.

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.

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!

Great video -- I had no knowledge of any of these facts! I thought the one about them cutting the dialogue by 75% was cool, especially the part where they thought it helped with the game's pacing. I always felt FF4 had a great story, great dialogue, great pacing, and just did a fantastic job of storytelling. It looks like it was all for the best!

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

Another amazing video! Thanks for creating amazing FF content!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

FF4 will forever be an masterpiece 💖

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

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..."

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.

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.

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

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

Love the secret of mana music in the background

I only knew #1 in part. Great finds!

The picture you used of square headquarters is downtown Los Angeles

I know it would’ve been a huge departure, but the fact that we were denied a Kurt Busiek FF story is tragic.

One of my favorite entries, and the one I recommend to newcomers to the franchise because of how short it is.

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

why SoM music for a feature on FF? interesting approach

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

Square literally thinks Americans are too dumb to play the original FF4.

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

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

8:10 The background music is from secret of mana!

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

Who did the art in the preview thats a wonderful piece and would liek to see the full thing.

I wish FF4 got an Octopath-like Remake just like DQIII will get

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

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

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

At 14:27 I think the pronunciation for Tsuganai be Tsu-gu-nai rather than Tsu-na-gai

Interesting to use Secret of Mana music.

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!

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

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

Nowadays, I see FFIV as 3 different games: Classic FFII on Snes, FFIV Advance/PSP, and FFIV DS. …and now the Pixel Remaster I guess, which is Advance/PSP without the bonus dungeons.

My favorite one still to this day.

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

I do find it a shame they never were able to publish those Final Fantasy comics. While they'd likely would have ended up within the "what the heck was that?" space of the Final Fantasy fandom had they released them, this was still in the late 80's to early 90's era of American comics where they did actually make visually compelling Sword & Sorcery comics -- like what DC did with the Dungeons & Dragons brand at the time.

Having received that Dinosaurs comic as a kid one year for Easter (and never having been a fan of the show either), I can see why that comic book company went out of business.

"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.

Heh, Suicide Enemy Glitch still happened in the US FF2 release.

Never played FFIV but I love these fact videos

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.

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.