Final Fantasy IV (2007)
Remake of Final Fantasy IV
3.92 from 785 ratings
2014 members have it in their collection · 80 playing now · 613 backlogged · 371 wish listed
How long? Main story 35h · with extras 40h (from 23 logged playthroughs)
FINAL FANTASY IV is a 3D remake of the classic Japanese RPG that was first released for SNES as FINAL FANTASY II in the North America.
Unlike the many subsequent ports (to Playstation, GameBoy Advance, etc.), this release is a full remake, programmed from scratch with real-time 3D graphics. The characters have a "super-deformed" touch. There is also voice acting …
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FINAL FANTASY IV is a 3D remake of the classic Japanese RPG that was first released for SNES as FINAL FANTASY II in the North America.
Unlike the many subsequent ports (to Playstation, GameBoy Advance, etc.), this release is a full remake, programmed from scratch with real-time 3D graphics. The characters have a "super-deformed" touch. There is also voice acting during cut-scenes. A new option has been added to the menu, which allows the player to read a conversation between party members and receive advice from them.
It also features many gameplay additions. The difficulty level has been increased, not only beyond the difficulty of the Western SNES release (which was reduced compared to Japanese original and subsequent ports), but even beyond the original difficulty. The party members are still bound by class, but they can now hunt for so-called "augments", which can be found or stolen from enemies and which grant the characters additional bonus abilities, resistances, spells that their class would normally not allow, etc.
Beside those major changes, there are also plenty of minor additions. It is possible to obtain bonus items after exploring every corner and filling 100% of an area map; Rydia, the summoner girl, has a new monster summon who can be customized in various ways; there is a new quest involving the "naming" moogle of the original game, etc.
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Details
- Developers
- Matrix Software
- Publishers
- Square Enix
- Genres
- Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Action, Fantasy
- Franchises
- Final Fantasy
- Series
- Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy IV
Release dates
- Dec 20, 2007 (Japan) Nintendo DS
- Jul 22, 2008 (North_America) Nintendo DS
- Sep 05, 2008 (Europe) Nintendo DS
Related
Bundled in
- Final Fantasy III + Final Fantasy IV: Double Pack Edition (Sep 2016) · PC
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Rating distribution
5 stars
213
4 stars
351
3 stars
180
2 stars
30
1 star
11
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status BurningKirby May 16, 2023
Holy hell, I think I'm in the endgame now and... did someone fall asleep on the numpad when they were coding the damage these enemies do? I've felt overleveled for a while now and all of a sudden I'm having characters get one/two shot in every random encounter. And getting pathetic exp when I win too, so grinding is mostly …
Read moreHoly hell, I think I'm in the endgame now and... did someone fall asleep on the numpad when they were coding the damage these enemies do? I've felt overleveled for a while now and all of a sudden I'm having characters get one/two shot in every random encounter. And getting pathetic exp when I win too, so grinding is mostly out of the question. I'm really scared to see what the boss of
Status BurningKirby May 13, 2023
I'm enjoying this one but jeez, did they have to give every boss a counterattack ability? It's really frustrating when you can't damage bosses without being punished for it on top of the attacks they're already dishing out.
Status RxBrad Nov 12, 2019
Maaan.. this final dungeon on the DS version of the game. It's ridiculously obnoxiously mind-numbingly irritating.
"You just spent the last 45 minutes humping every single wall, trying to find the invisible passages you need to get anywhere in this level? That's nice. Here's a Red Dragon to one-shot your entire party. Did we mention there are no save points …
Maaan.. this final dungeon on the DS version of the game. It's ridiculously obnoxiously mind-numbingly irritating.
"You just spent the last 45 minutes humping every single wall, trying to find the invisible passages you need to get anywhere in this level? That's nice. Here's a Red Dragon to one-shot your entire party. Did we mention there are no save points anywhere? Ha-ha, f*ck you!"
Status RxBrad Oct 21, 2019
My plans to play "ʎʞoOԀs" games all this month got kneecapped by Final Fantasy. I'm having too much fun JRPG'ing right now. With FF2 & FF3 down, I'm on to FF4.
I'm still on the fence for how I feel about these 3D remakes. For FF4 on the DS, I think I'm neutral. They took an early 16-bit game with …
My plans to play "ʎʞoOԀs" games all this month got kneecapped by Final Fantasy. I'm having too much fun JRPG'ing right now. With FF2 & FF3 down, I'm on to FF4.
I'm still on the fence for how I feel about these 3D remakes. For FF4 on the DS, I think I'm neutral. They took an early 16-bit game with primitive-to-mediocre 2D graphics, and turned it into equally primitive-to-mediocre 3D graphics. The gameplay seems to be intact from what I remember of my previous partial playthroughs, at least.
Status TheFavorista Nov 25, 2018
Beat 1x. Had not played the SNES version recently enough to directly compare but found it interesting that they changed elements up. Good difficulty level. Mute the cutscenes with Cid the next time through, though!