Squeenix Final Fantasy IV on Steam

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I was planning on playing this game but there seem to be tons of different remakes and re-releases. What's the best and worst version of FF4 and why?

Although the original SNES translation (as Final Fantasy II) was decidely substandard, it appears that later translations were even worse with the possible exception of the Nintendo DS version that has horrific 3D graphics. Thus, the SNES version has the best possible graphics (anything different from the original just made it worse) and possibly the best translation. However, the original Japanese Final Fantasy IV on the Super Famicom had two versions, Hard Type and Easy Type, and the SNES version left out some attacks and items that were available in the Hard Type version; these might have been added back in certain later English versions.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Legends of Localization has created a machine translation of Final Fantasy IV:

 

[aweigh]

there is an English rom version of ff4j "hard type". has been for decades. probably would be my recommendation for a 1st play, and then once finished with the english-language rom of ff4j hard type, i would probably not complain about one of the polygonal versions just to see what they changed.

psp, if content-identical to the DS version, then should be the clear and superior option in everything: aspect ratio, resolution, etc, therefore see absolutely no reason to play the DS version.

don't know about the iOS and Android ports, and if nothing else, they probably sport a slightly higher resolution to shit than the psp, with UI fucked to being unusable like all mobile ports of an originally pre-polygon game.

 

[Max Stats]

psp, if content-identical to the DS version, then should be the clear and superior option in everything: aspect ratio, resolution, etc, therefore see absolutely no reason to play the DS version.

PSP is glorious 2D sprite work, not blocky giant polygons like the DS/mobile and successors. It's definitely the best looking version. IIRC, it uses the GBA translation, but with some of the DS translation nonsense thrown in, like "Eidolons", a word which has no place in FF4.

I really don't care for the DS translation, it's far too wordy and pulls shit like that out just because. The voices are bad as well, especially Cecil. I'm not saying don't play that version, or it's bad, I'm saying IMO the PSP version is a lot better.

The one thing the DS version has in spades is extra difficulty. If that's what you care most about, yeah, go for that or one based on it.

 

[tet666]

psp, if content-identical to the DS version, then should be the clear and superior option in everything: aspect ratio, resolution, etc, therefore see absolutely no reason to play the DS version.

PSP is glorious 2D sprite work, not blocky giant polygons like the DS/mobile and successors. It's definitely the best looking version. IIRC, it uses the GBA translation, but with some of the DS translation nonsense thrown in, like "Eidolons", a word which has no place in FF4.

I really don't care for the DS translation, it's far too wordy and pulls shit like that out just because. The voices are bad as well, especially Cecil. I'm not saying don't play that version, or it's bad, I'm saying IMO the PSP version is a lot better.

The one thing the DS version has in spades is extra difficulty. If that's what you care most about, yeah, go for that or one based on it.

It is the easiest version, by a large margin. The first half of the game is so much of a joke that it completely ruins the sense of pacing and adventure. It slowly regresses toward the difficulty of the SNES version as you get further in, and the last boss is actually harder.

 

[Max Stats]

All I can say is in the 2D versions I can sometimes get to Rydia without taking any damage at all. Can't come close to that with the DS. But did they add an easy mode to mobile/PC 3D version? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.

 

[LESS T_T]

About 10 months after the surprising update to FF3, FF4 also gets a new QoL update.



https://www.gematsu.com/2020/11/fin...rface-full-screen-support-and-asian-languages

Square Enix has released a new update for the PC (Steam), iOS, and Android versions of Final Fantasy IV, which adds a new interface, full-screen support, Asian languages, and various bug fixes.

Get the details below.

• Completely new interface:
  • Gamepad compatibility has been optimized.
  • Small adjustments to keyboard, mouse, and touch panel operations have also been made.
• Full-screen now available:
  • Full-screen display now available until 21:9.
• The follow language settings are available:
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Korean
  • Thai
  • Japanese
• Small bugs have been fixed.

 

[Thac0]

About 10 months after the surprising update to FF3, FF4 also gets a new QoL update.



https://www.gematsu.com/2020/11/fin...rface-full-screen-support-and-asian-languages

Square Enix has released a new update for the PC (Steam), iOS, and Android versions of Final Fantasy IV, which adds a new interface, full-screen support, Asian languages, and various bug fixes.

Get the details below.

• Completely new interface:
  • Gamepad compatibility has been optimized.
  • Small adjustments to keyboard, mouse, and touch panel operations have also been made.
• Full-screen now available:
  • Full-screen display now available until 21:9.
• The follow language settings are available:
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Korean
  • Thai
  • Japanese
• Small bugs have been fixed.

At this point I am convinced Square Enix has a Qol department that just throws darts at a wall full of game cases to decide what they will patch next. So obscure, next thing they finally make some graphical changes to FF V+VI remaster or what?

 

[Duraframe300]

At this point I am convinced Square Enix has a Qol department that just throws darts at a wall full of game cases to decide what they will patch next. So obscure, next thing they finally make some graphical changes to FF V+VI remaster or what?

Wrong, they use two darts. One determines which game they patch and one which game they remove Denuvo from.

It's a bored Square Enix developers favourite pastime.

 

[deuxhero]

I think it was stuff they added when adding the new languages.

 

[LESS T_T]

Probably they're preparing to release these games on Switch, PS4/5, and Xbox. (Surprisingly pre-7 games are not available on those.)

 

[deuxhero]

This has actually made the news on Nipponese video game news sites, so yeah, likely was just for the launch in new regions.
https://www.4gamer.net/games/537/G053786/20201106030/

They may very well port it to everything though.

 

[Vyadhis]

I totally forgot I even had this game in my steam library.