Quote (Vio-Lewis @ Thu, Jul 24 2008, 08:44am)
I liked FF4 but it certainly wasn't my favourite.
The characters were OK.
Didn't like the story much, especially at the end (spoilers) when you find out that the bad guy you've been fighting all along isn't the real bad guy.
The gameplay was fine: just what you'd expect from a SNES FF game.
The main thing I didn't like about this game was the low number of sidequests. I got to the end of the game and there wasn't that much left to do. A few random summons to obtain and a few easy bosses in the final dungeon to get the secret weapons.
Games then didn't have all that many sidequests, except for the pioneer of major / many sidequests for games which was Romancing Saga. But at least FF4 had a few of them.. the tail quests, excaliber, Odin, Leviathon + Ashura, finding Yang after the accident / getting the Spoon, Bahamut; that basically covers all of them. I wouldn't count the ultimate weapons because they are just monster in a box fights. But seeing as it was the first SNES FF there is no surprise.. there weren't really a lot of them in FF5 either, but FF6 had tons of them and was probably the first FF game to really start the whole sidequesting thing as a major part of it.
e: and the badguy switch thing was actually kinda nice I thought, as far as story goes. The problem I have with it is how frigging sudden it is, it literally goes from Golbez is the bad guy the entire game to Zemus is the badguy within like one scene before the last dungeon. They should have at least alluded to the possibility that there is someone else pulling the strings. It's still a great game though.
This post was edited by Khrushchev on Jul 24 2008 08:03am