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** The Ninja and Sage crowns are in the BonusDugeon Towers, similar to FinalFantasy3 where they were sealed in Eureka.
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** The Ninja and Sage crowns are in the BonusDugeon Towers, similar to FinalFantasy3 where they were sealed in Eureka.
** The Storyteller is [[FinalFantasy5 Gogo]] [[FinalFantasy6 the Mime]]. Both are optional, performance artists, wear concealing clothing, and can use every skill and ability mastered.
** The Storyteller is [[FinalFantasy5 Gogo]] [[FinalFantasy6 the Mime]]. Both are optional, performance artists, wear concealing clothing, and can use every skill and ability mastered.
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** The Ninja and Sage crowns are in the BonusDugeon Towers, similar to FinalFantasy3 where they were sealed in Eureka.
** The Storyteller is [[FinalFantasy5 Gogo]] [[FinalFantasy6 the Mime]]. Both are optional, performance artists, wear concealing clothing, and can use every skill and ability mastered.
* SocializationBonus: Playing the game in Multiplayer Mode increases the number of Multiplayer Points which can be spent on equipment that can be upgraded to InfinityPlusOneSword.
** The Storyteller is [[FinalFantasy5 Gogo]] [[FinalFantasy6 the Mime]]. Both are optional, performance artists, wear concealing clothing, and can use every skill and ability mastered.
* SocializationBonus: Playing the game in Multiplayer Mode increases the number of Multiplayer Points which can be spent on equipment that can be upgraded to InfinityPlusOneSword.
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** The Storyteller is [[FinalFantasy5 Gogo]] [[FinalFantasy6 the Mime]]. Both are optional, performance artists, wear concealing clothing, and can use every skill and ability mastered.
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* LowLevelAdvantage: Halfway through the game every monster will be adjusted to the players level if they are higher than the monster's level.
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** The Ninja and Sage crowns are in the BonusDugeon Towers, similar to FinalFantasy3 where they were sealed in Eureka.
** The Storyteller is [[FinalFantasy5 Gogo]] [[FinalFantasy6 the Mime]]. Both are optional, performance artists, wear concealing clothing, and can use every skill and ability mastered.
* SocializationBonus: Playing the game in Multiplayer Mode increases the number of Multiplayer Points which can be spent on equipment that can be upgraded to InfinityPlusOneSword.
** The Storyteller is [[FinalFantasy5 Gogo]] [[FinalFantasy6 the Mime]]. Both are optional, performance artists, wear concealing clothing, and can use every skill and ability mastered.
* SocializationBonus: Playing the game in Multiplayer Mode increases the number of Multiplayer Points which can be spent on equipment that can be upgraded to InfinityPlusOneSword.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Averted with Status Spells and the Shaman.
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* AllInARow: Rubber band variant. Party members follow the leader in a sort of disorganized clump.
* AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair: Each town has eight items hidden in random places with no visual hints, although animals will sometimes let slip the location of one.
* AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair: Each town has eight items hidden in random places with no visual hints, although animals will sometimes let slip the location of one.
* BareYourMidriff: The Dark Fencer's top is a vest with no shirt for both sexes.
* CastFromHitPoints: The Dark Fencer's ability center around this.
* CoolHelmet: The Paladin and Dark Fencer crowns.
* CoolMask: The Bandit, Shaman, Beastmaster, Storyteller, and Ninja crowns.
* CoolMask: The Bandit, Shaman, Beastmaster, Storyteller, and Ninja crowns.
* ElementalPowers: Light, Dark, Fire, Water, Wind, Earth. In this game, ice is included with water and thunder with light.
* GenderedOutfit: Most of the job classes use dresses or have more subtle alterations between the male and female versions.
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* MagikarpPower: Remember that King's Shortsword Aire was carrying at the start of the game? ''Don't sell it.'' It's the strongest weapon in the game if you upgrade it, as it grows in effectiveness twice as much as regular equipment - ''including'' the Light set of equipment.
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* MagicKnight: Spell Fencers can charge their physical attacks with spells.
* MagikarpPower: Remember that King's Shortsword Aire was carrying at the start of the game? ''Don't sell it.'' It's the strongest weapon in the game if you upgrade it, as it grows in effectiveness twice as much as regular equipment - ''including'' the Light set of equipment.*
* MartialArtsHeadband: A red-and-yellow striped one for Fighters.
* MagikarpPower: Remember that King's Shortsword Aire was carrying at the start of the game? ''Don't sell it.'' It's the strongest weapon in the game if you upgrade it, as it grows in effectiveness twice as much as regular equipment - ''including'' the Light set of equipment.*
* MartialArtsHeadband: A red-and-yellow striped one for Fighters.
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* NiceHat: Every class has one, except for the Freelancer.
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* {{Necromancer}}: The Monk crown allows the wearer to reanimate dead allies and increases power the more times the wearer has been revived from death.
* NiceHat: Every class has one, except for theFreelancer.Freelancer and Dancer.
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* NoCureForEvil: Averted in a few cases. The Aire Doppelganger can use Cure and Cura, for instance, even though the Dopplegangers are dark-element enemies.
* RainOfArrows: The Ranger's "Covering Fire" ability does this.
* Really700YearsOld: The Dragoniers of Invidia have much longer lifespans than normal humans. [[spoiler:Rolan]], for example, looks the same age as the heroes despite being three centuries old.
* Really700YearsOld: The Dragoniers of Invidia have much longer lifespans than normal humans. [[spoiler:Rolan]], for example, looks the same age as the heroes despite being three centuries old.
* SomethingAboutARose: The Dancer crown isn't a hat. Instead, characters clench a rose between their teeth.
* SupportCharacter: Bard, Salve-Maker, Dancer, Party Host, and Scholar are geared around buffs / debuffs and have poor offensive power.
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* VendorTrash: The eight kinds of Gems (in order of sell value): Ruby, Emerald, Topaz, Sapphire, Lapis, Aquamarine, Amethyst and Diamond.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: The towers all start getting ''wider'' floors as you go up.
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* BrokenBridge: All over the place in the first half of the game, that either only clear when you activate a certain event, or prevent you from going back.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the game, Aire is no longer a spoiled, selfish brat, Jusqua actually cares about people other than himself, Yunita has stopped being a FailureKnight, and Brandt... Well, Brandt's still an IdiotHero, but at least he's not abusing the "I must be stronger than everyone else!" cliché quite so hard anymore.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the game, Aire is no longer a spoiled, selfish brat, Jusqua actually cares about people other than himself, Yunita has stopped being a FailureKnight, and Brandt... Well, Brandt's still an IdiotHero, but at least he's not abusing the "I must be stronger than everyone else!" cliché quite so hard anymore.
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* BrokenBridge: All over the place in the first half of the game, that game. They either only clear when you activate a certain event, event or prevent you from going back.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the game, Aire is no longer aspoiled, selfish brat, Jusqua actually cares about people other than himself, Yunita has stopped being a FailureKnight, and Brandt... Well, Brandt's still an IdiotHero, but at least he's not abusing the "I must be stronger than everyone else!" cliché quite so hard anymore.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the game, Aire is no longer a
* TheChosenMany: The Crystal chooses the four as Heroes of Light at the beginning of the game. They proceed to bicker, ditch each other, not focus on their quest, and generally not have their act together until halfway through the game.
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* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:Cat]] Aire VS Ogre Bear.
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* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:Cat]] Aire VS vs Ogre Bear.Bear. (In fact, the Ogre Bear is in the same place [[spoiler:after the TimeCrash. If you go back in after freeing Lilibelle, it will still be there to kill you.]])
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* MiniGame: Two - a shopping mini-game in Urbeth which is used to grind for ''so much'' money, and a maths game in Invidia.
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* MiniGame: Two - a shopping mini-game in Urbeth which is used to grind for ''so much'' money, and a maths game in Invidia. Both can get you a bonus job class if you score high enough.
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* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:Satan, Chaos, and Mammon]] upon death.
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* ArabianKnightsDays: The desert city of Guera.
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* ArabianKnightsDays: ArabianNightsDays: The desert city of Guera.
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* FailureKnight: Yunita. And ''how''.
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* FailureKnight: Yunita. And ''how''.Failing to protect Aire and Horne and getting ditched by Brandt reduces her to being a bum on the streets of Urbeth.
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* IdiotHero: Brandt is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]] 2.0.
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* IdiotHero: Brandt is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]] 2.0.plenty gung-ho, but the brains of the group he ain't.
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* {{Qurac}}: Guera.
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Guera: [[spoiler:Save Krinjh and Ariadne and depose the demon that replaced King Guera.]]
** Invidia: [[spoiler:Restore the Sun Temple lift the winter that's turned everyone into a JerkAss.]]
** Invidia: [[spoiler:Restore the Sun Temple lift the winter that's turned everyone into a JerkAss.]]
** Urbeth: [[spoiler:Stop the charlatan who caused the plague from convincing the high priests that faith is worthless next to money.]]
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** You can also invert this by taking THEIR unique gear, letting you get better weapons and armor than you might have had.
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** You can also invert this by taking THEIR ''their'' unique gear, letting you get better weapons and armor than you might have had.
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* WithThisHerring: For someone so desperate to have his daughter rescued, the King of Horne is a rather insidious penny pincher. Despite having an entire armory stocked with weapons and armor, he sends Brandt on his merry way with little more than a Steel Sword and a firm pat on the shoulder.
** Which makes sense, considering his deal.
** Which makes sense, considering his deal.
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* WithThisHerring: For someone so desperate to have his daughter rescued, the King of Horne is a rather insidious penny pincher. Despite having an entire armory stocked with weapons and armor, he sends Brandt on his merry way with little more than a Steel Sword and a firm pat on the shoulder.
** Which makesshoulder. [[spoiler:Makes sense, considering his deal.who it really is.]]
** Which makes
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* DevelopersRoom: A limited and very obscure version: if you manage to make it to the northern part of Horne early in the game during nighttime when it's normally blocked by a sand whirlpool (either by dying in battle during nighttime before you save your game for the first time or using a Dragon Wing), the [=NPCs'=] dialogue changes to various messages from programmers.
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* DevelopersRoom: A limited and very obscure version: if you manage to make it to the northern part of Horne Liberte early in the game during nighttime when it's normally blocked by a sand whirlpool (either by dying in battle during nighttime before you save your game for the first time or using a Dragon Wing), the [=NPCs'=] dialogue changes to various messages from programmers.
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* LongSongShortScene: The dragon riding tune is much longer than necessary, considering how small the game world is, and how quick it takes to ride from one place to another.
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* TimeCrash: [[spoiler: One is caused by the unleashing of Rolan's evil. Fortunately, this allows the heroes to reach timeframes where they can do the most good.]]
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* [[EveryManHasHisPrice Every Monster Has Its Price]]: The Merchant's Ransom ability allows a character to give up the gil equivalent to the damage s/he would have taken. With a full bank account[[labelnote:*]]Have fun abusing [[GameBreaker that Urbeth minigame[[/labelnote]], a Merchant with the Ransom ability, and the [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Shield of Light]] equipped, you could theoretically defeat the final boss without taking a single scratch.
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* [[EveryManHasHisPrice Every Monster Has Its Price]]: The Merchant's Ransom ability allows a character to give up the gil equivalent to the damage s/he would have taken. With a full bank account[[labelnote:*]]Have fun abusing [[GameBreaker that Urbeth minigame[[/labelnote]], minigame]][[/labelnote]], a Merchant with the Ransom ability, and the [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Shield of Light]] equipped, you could theoretically defeat the final boss without taking a single scratch.
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* [[EveryManHasHisPrice Every Monster Has Its Price]]: The Merchant's Ransom ability allows a character to give up the gil equivalent to the damage s/he would have taken. With a full bank account[[hottip:*:Have fun abusing [[GameBreaker that Urbeth minigame]].]], a Merchant with the Ransom ability, and the [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Shield of Light]] equipped, you could theoretically defeat the final boss without taking a single scratch.
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* KarlMarxHatesYourGuts: Oh-so-averted in Urbeth's shopkeeping minigame, where the wealthy locals will pay several times the going rate for something you bought in the next street, or even the same shop. Unlimited profits, here we come.
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* KarlMarxHatesYourGuts: Oh-so-averted Averted in Urbeth's shopkeeping minigame, where the wealthy locals will pay several times the going rate for something you bought in the next street, or even the same shop. Unlimited profits, here we come.
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** Vulpes (Urbeth) may refer to the [[CunningLikeAFox fox-like cunning]] necessary to make it in a city full of hard-playing merchants.
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** Vulpes (Urbeth) (Urbeth in English) may refer to the [[CunningLikeAFox fox-like cunning]] necessary to make it in a city full of hard-playing merchants.
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** Superbia (Spelvia) is Latin for "pride"--befitting of a floating city meant to enslave the world below and ruled by a hero who regards himself as above humanity.
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** Superbia (Spelvia) (Spelvia in English) is Latin for "pride"--befitting of a floating city meant to enslave the world below and ruled by a hero who regards himself as above humanity.
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* CharacterSelectForcing: Unless you are ''really good'' at this game, you will need an Elementalist, at the very least to help you take down bosses. Party-wide element resistance buffs are nice like that.
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* FauxSymbolism: While it's not directly mentioned, each town represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and in the second half of the game is haunted by a demon also representing the sin.
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* NostalgiaLevel: This whole game, really. The title music really hits hard for anyone who grew up on 8 and 16-bit {{RPG}}s.
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** Krinjh is based on [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Minwu]], up to and including [[spoiler:dying to save his country from an evil ruler.]]
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The entire point of the game's second half.
** Horne: [[spoiler:Defeat the fake King Horne and save Queen Horne(Aire and Carino's mother)'s life.]]
** Guera:
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** Spelvia: [[spoiler:Find the source of Rolan's darkness, Lucifer, and defeat him.]]
** Horne: [[spoiler:Defeat the fake King Horne and save Queen Horne(Aire and Carino's mother)'s life.]]
** Guera:
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** Spelvia: [[spoiler:Find the source of Rolan's darkness, Lucifer, and defeat him.]]
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* [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: How well you do in boss battles later on largely depends on how well you play their vulnerabilities and resistances.
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* NiceHat: Every class has one. [[AndZoidberg Except the Freelancer.]]
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* NiceHat: Every class has one. [[AndZoidberg Except one, except for the Freelancer.]]
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* AnachronicOrder: The party splits up and joins up in different pairs at times, with each separate group's adventures happening simultaneously, with the BookEnds of some chapters making more sense when you see what the other party was doing. (e.g. [[spoiler:Brandt leaving Yunita to team up with a cat of all things ...who has a map ...because she's actually Aire.]])
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* AnachronicOrder: The party splits up and joins up in different pairs at times, with each separate group's adventures happening simultaneously, with the BookEnds of some chapters making more sense when you see what the other party was doing. (e.g. [[spoiler:Brandt leaving Yunita to team up with a cat of all things ...things... who has a map ...map... because she's actually Aire.]])
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* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Crystal prefaces granting you the [[spoiler:Dark Fencer]] crown with the rather ominous "To thee I grant this gift of might, upon thy head a crown of...forbidden might." Shortly afterward, King Horne presents you with the spell [[spoiler:Desolator]] with similar gravitas.
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* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Crystal prefaces granting you the [[spoiler:Dark Fencer]] crown with the rather ominous "To thee I grant this gift of might, upon thy head a crown of... forbidden might." Shortly afterward, King Horne presents you with the spell [[spoiler:Desolator]] with similar gravitas.
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* GeorgeLucasThrowback: To the 8-bit era of [=RPGs=] and their {{Nintendo Hard}}ness. You can't save anywhere you want, inventory space is limited, and don't expect help if you ask "NowWhereWasIGoingAgain?"
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* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: King Horne is half Aire's size.
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* SceneryPorn: The art style's more notable points are its ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]''-esque vivid colors and lack of outlines, resulting in very pretty visuals more or less everywhere. [[http://ff4heroes.com/na/?page_id=1531 Arbor]] is a strong example of out-and-out scenery porn.
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* SceneryPorn: The art style's more notable points are its ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]''-esque vivid colors and lack of outlines, resulting in very pretty visuals more or less everywhere. [[http://ff4heroes.com/na/?page_id=1531 Arbor]] is a strong example of out-and-out scenery porn.
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** Louhi is named after the main antagonist of TheKalevala, the Finnish national epic, who is also a shapeshifting witch from the GrimUpNorth.
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** Louhi is named after the main antagonist of TheKalevala, Literature/TheKalevala, the Finnish national epic, who is also a shapeshifting witch from the GrimUpNorth.
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* FireIceLightning: Rather differently from the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' norm, however; Thunder is [[LightEmUp Light-elemental]] and Water and Blizzard both share the [[MakingASplash Water element]].
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''Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light'' is a GaidenGame or "spin-off" from the [[RunningGag ball-throbbingly popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series. It was released for the Nintendo DS console in Japan and was released in North America on October 5, 2010. The game is the second to be released with the ''Final Fantasy Gaiden'' subtitle in Japan, after ''[[FinalFantasyAdventure Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden]]'', though the two games have no relations to each other. Character design was done by Akihiko Yoshida, and Matrix Software, developers of various titles such as ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'' and the DS remakes of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV IV]]'' has returned to develop this title.
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''Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light'' is a GaidenGame or "spin-off" from the [[RunningGag ball-throbbingly popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series. It was released for the Nintendo DS console in Japan and was released in North America on October 5, 2010. The game is the second to be released with the ''Final Fantasy Gaiden'' subtitle in Japan, after ''[[FinalFantasyAdventure ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden]]'', though the two games have no relations to each other. Character design was done by Akihiko Yoshida, and Matrix Software, developers of various titles such as ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'' and the DS remakes of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV IV]]'' has returned to develop this title.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Yes, the 4 heroes of light. They are heroes. They are of light. There are even 4 of them!]]
->''To thee I grant this gift of Light,\\
upon thy head a crown of might.''
''Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light'' is a GaidenGame or "spin-off" from the [[RunningGag ball-throbbingly popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series. It was released for the Nintendo DS console in Japan and was released in North America on October 5, 2010. The game is the second to be released with the ''Final Fantasy Gaiden'' subtitle in Japan, after ''[[FinalFantasyAdventure Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden]]'', though the two games have no relations to each other. Character design was done by Akihiko Yoshida, and Matrix Software, developers of various titles such as ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'' and the DS remakes of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV IV]]'' has returned to develop this title.
Like several titles of old, this game uses a ClassAndLevelSystem, here called the Crown System, but its unique variation lies in the fact that every character is essentially an [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Onion Knight]] in that they can equip anything; the jobs instead affect their usable skillset. Powering up the crowns involves a unique form of leveling via the application of [[VendorTrash disposable]] gems.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AnachronicOrder: The party splits up and joins up in different pairs at times, with each separate group's adventures happening simultaneously, with the BookEnds of some chapters making more sense when you see what the other party was doing. (e.g. [[spoiler:Brandt leaving Yunita to team up with a cat of all things ...who has a map ...because she's actually Aire.]])
* AnimalTalk: You can talk to any animal in animal form.
* {{Animorphism}}: Once you get the Transform Staff, [[IncrediblyLamePun go wild]].
* ArtificialStupidity: Targets are selected automatically (physical attacks target the first enemy on the left, magic on the right), instead of being chosen by the player. This can result in, for example, your Black Mage using a Quake spell, ignoring the enemy who's vulnerable to earth-based damage, and instead aiming at the flying enemy that's immune to the attack.
** It can also result in your WhiteMage using [[StatusBuff Esuna]] to heal the other characters of any status ailment under the sun that still allows them to fight and gain experience, but ignoring the one who's been [[TakenForGranite petrified]].
* AwesomeButImpractical: A lot of the level 3 crown skills. For example, the Elementalist's Elemental casts a series of spells of every element. This sounds pretty cool, except (1) the bosses that really matter are going to be resistant to every element but one, maybe two, and (2) given the previous, the only seemingly practical use of the skill would be exposing those few elemental weaknesses, but who needs that when you can just look up a guide?
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Aire]], who is turned into a cat; and [[spoiler:Brandt]], who is turned into ''a plant''.
* BladderOfSteel: No quicksaving or saving on the world map. You're going to have to wait for the fedora guy just like everybody else. Thankfully, it's a portable title, and a DS one at that, so the game can be put into sleep mode if it ''needs'' to be put down at any time.
* BonusBoss: Along with the bosses in the [[BonusDungeon towers]], there is the [[HopelessBossFight Ogre Bear]]. Hope you brought an Energy Screen.
* BonusDungeon: The towers, which are all randomized and contain {{Bonus Boss}}es.
* BossRush: In the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.
* BrokenBridge: All over the place in the first half of the game, that either only clear when you activate a certain event, or prevent you from going back.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the game, Aire is no longer a spoiled, selfish brat, Jusqua actually cares about people other than himself, Yunita has stopped being a FailureKnight, and Brandt... Well, Brandt's still an IdiotHero, but at least he's not abusing the "I must be stronger than everyone else!" cliché quite so hard anymore.
* ChekhovsGun: Remember that sign explaining how to handle sheep?
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Ankhel, Brandt's parrot]].
* ClassAndLevelSystem
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: By all appearances, wearing [[NiceHat hats]] is the only reason the quartet have any powers beyond their spell tomes.
** Not to mention the fact that good clothing -- not just armor, but also the stuff made of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin actual cloth]] -- gives higher base defense bonuses than ''the best shields''.
* CopyProtection: If you pirate the game, the enemies have infinite HP.
* CrapsackWorld: Even if you discount the fact that [[spoiler:demons are apparently running everything behind the scenes]], and instead just take everything at face value, most of the places you visit aren't very inviting places to live. Horne doesn't seem so bad [[spoiler:until everyone is turned to stone]], and Liberte's pretty nice (except for the pirate kidnappings), but every other city? Hoo boy.
** Guera: [[spoiler:The residents are trapped by a vicious sand demon and no one has entered or left the city in years. Also, an entire race of people was wiped out save for a SoleSurvivor.]]\\
Arbor: [[spoiler:The fairies dislike and distrust humans so much that any human who approaches Arbor, even if they mean no harm, is transformed into a plant. No, the fairies won't help you. You get to stay like that.]]\\
Urbeth: [[spoiler:A town obsessed with money, where the poor are barely dressed in rags, are barely able to eat, and are treated like second-class citizens.]]\\
Invidia: [[spoiler:It's constantly freezing, everyone is miserable, and it's ruled by a bitter man who is waiting on his son to finally come home to rule the world.]]\\
Spelvia: [[spoiler:Run by a misanthropic man who has been living with nothing but his hatred for hundreds of years. All of his robots are programmed to kill humans. Also, when the group finally manages to get him to let go of his hate, it turns out to be powerful enough to poison the rest of the world.]]
* CreditsMedley
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Crystal prefaces granting you the [[spoiler:Dark Fencer]] crown with the rather ominous "To thee I grant this gift of might, upon thy head a crown of...forbidden might." Shortly afterward, King Horne presents you with the spell [[spoiler:Desolator]] with similar gravitas.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Possibly. Dying strips you of half of any one category of gems -- which is devastating if the game randomly selects your Diamonds; not so much if it chooses the Rubies, or another lesser gem you have in low number. This trope is in full force if someone has equipped the Freelancer crown, which negates ''any'' penalty beyond being warped back to the last [[SavePoint Adventurer]].
* DegradedBoss: Trollud, the Liberte boss, is a normal monster in the ice caves before Invidia. Later, Behugemoth is added to the same caves, except the trope is inverted and he's ''much'' harder than before.
** In the second half of the game, [[PaletteSwap palette-swapped]] Minotaur can be found in the Quicksand Castle.
* DevelopersRoom: A limited and very obscure version: if you manage to make it to the northern part of Horne early in the game during nighttime when it's normally blocked by a sand whirlpool (either by dying in battle during nighttime before you save your game for the first time or using a Dragon Wing), the [=NPCs'=] dialogue changes to various messages from programmers.
* DoomedHometown: Everyone in Horne [[TakenForGranite turn to stone]] after defeating the Witch of the North.
* DualBoss: Geri and Freki.
* DynamicDifficulty
* [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: How well you do in boss battles later on largely depends on how well you play their vulnerabilities and resistances.
* EmergencyTransformation: Of a sort. [[spoiler:Brandt]] is transformed from a plant to a [[spoiler:puppy]], with the logic being that it's much easier to transform someone back to a human if they're already a conscious being.
* [[EveryManHasHisPrice Every Monster Has Its Price]]: The Merchant's Ransom ability allows a character to give up the gil equivalent to the damage s/he would have taken. With a full bank account[[hottip:*:Have fun abusing [[GameBreaker that Urbeth minigame]].]], a Merchant with the Ransom ability, and the [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Shield of Light]] equipped, you could theoretically defeat the final boss without taking a single scratch.
* {{Expy}}: Krinjh serves a similar purpose to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Minwu]], in that he serves as a CrutchCharacter early on, and also [[MythologyGag is a Spell Fencer (i.e. Mystic Knight). The costumes for male Mystic Knights in FF5 were based on Minwu]].
* FailureKnight: Yunita. And ''how''.
* FallenHero: Rolan, initially.
* FauxSymbolism: While it's not directly mentioned, each town represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and in the second half of the game is haunted by a demon also representing the sin.
* FireIceLightning: Rather differently from the ''FinalFantasy'' norm, however; Thunder is [[LightEmUp Light-elemental]] and Water and Blizzard both share the [[MakingASplash Water element]].
* FisherKing: [[spoiler:Rolan, almost literally. Helping him regain his confidence inadvertently released the darkness from his heart, putting the world in a time loop.]]
* FloatingContinent: Spelvia.
* GeorgeLucasThrowback: To the 8-bit era of [=RPGs=] and their {{Nintendo Hard}}ness. You can't save anywhere you want, inventory space is limited, and don't expect help if you ask "NowWhereWasIGoingAgain?"
* GlobalAirship: A dragon hatched from the egg in Invidia.
* [[GoodMorningCrono Good Morning Brandt]]: Nearly verbatim.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Krinjh the Spell Fencer in Guera, Torte the Sage in Arbor, Rekoteh the Dancer in Invidia, and Rolan the Hero in Spelvia. Note that these are all Crowns that you won't have yet when they're in your party.
* GuideDangIt: ''So much''. Let's put it this way, you won't know a lot of things about the game without a guide.
* {{Hello Insert Name Here}}: All four heroes are nameable.
* HighClassGlass: Comes pre-packaged with the Salve-Maker crown.
* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:Cat]] Aire VS Ogre Bear.
* IdiotHero: Brandt is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]] 2.0.
* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Each character can only hold 15 non-stackable items, including equipment and spells, though key items are separate. The storage can hold up to 99 of any item, of course.
** Don't forget abilities - there are only 6 slots for spells and Crown abilities.
* JackOfAllStats[=, =]MasterOfNone: Jusqua, whose Strength, Intellect, and Spirit stats all max out at 65.
* JerkAss: Jusqua, at first.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Rolan's heart has been festering in resentment and self-hatred for hundreds of years; in order for him to help the party, they must enter his heart and cleanse him of his demons.
* KarlMarxHatesYourGuts: Oh-so-averted in Urbeth's shopkeeping minigame, where the wealthy locals will pay several times the going rate for something you bought in the next street, or even the same shop. Unlimited profits, here we come.
* LethalJokeCharacter: The game seems to revel in kicking the shit out of the concept of {{Useless Useful Spell}}s, since most of the crowns are extremely purpose-built but manage to be absolute game breakers, such as the [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower seamstress]], [[CombatMedic salve-maker]], and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney merchant]]. The typical "I like swords" classes from the mainline ''FinalFantasy'' series, on the other hand, are average at best.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: While it's possible to kill just about every enemy you come across with physical attacks, you ''will'' need to rely on magic spells and Crown abilities, especially in the second half of the game where the enemy's levels scale to match yours.
* LostForever: Lots of items. Talk to everyone before and after certain plot flags, such as Kuore after being entrusted with the mission to go to the Witch's Mansion to rescue Aire.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: While the defense boosts on these aren't as large as those you get from [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman clothing]], it's the [[ElementalRockPaperScissors elemental resistances]] that will really come in handy.
* MagikarpPower: Remember that King's Shortsword Aire was carrying at the start of the game? ''Don't sell it.'' It's the strongest weapon in the game if you upgrade it, as it grows in effectiveness twice as much as regular equipment - ''including'' the Light set of equipment.
* MeaningfulName
** Horne is known for its wind. It's also known for its agriculture, making the name a probable horn of plenty reference. Also a visual pun - the 'r' and 'n' in 'Horne' together look like an 'm', thus making the name of the village 'Home.' As in, literally, your 'Home Town.' Which is then [[DoomedHometown doomed]].
** Liberte is Latin for "freedman". The local pirates go on about freedom a lot.
** Vulpes (Urbeth) may refer to the [[CunningLikeAFox fox-like cunning]] necessary to make it in a city full of hard-playing merchants.
** Arbor is housed in the [[WorldTree Great Tree]]. Its [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Japanese name]], "Elva", is [[HiddenElfVillage obvious]].
** Invidia is Latin for "[[GreenEyedMonster envy]]", and the locals are rightfully envious of the fact that other people get the occasional sunny day and they don't.
** Superbia (Spelvia) is Latin for "pride"--befitting of a floating city meant to enslave the world below and ruled by a hero who regards himself as above humanity.
* MiniGame: Two - a shopping mini-game in Urbeth which is used to grind for ''so much'' money, and a maths game in Invidia.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: King Horne is half Aire's size.
* MoneySpider: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], enemies drop VendorTrash rather than straight-up gil. Double averted, in the fact that the VendorTrash are gems, which you need for character and item leveling, and are impossible to get outside of combat.
* MythologyGag: The plot of the game initially concerns [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI saving a princess at the beginning]], and later on breaking a [[spoiler:StableTimeLoop]].
** To add to the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI FF1]] References, the Final Boss is named Chaos. In addition, one of his attacks is called [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Big Bang]].
** Krinjh is based on [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Ming-Wu]], up to and including [[spoiler:dying to save his country from an evil ruler.]]
** There is a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' potion sitting on the counter of the weapons store in Urbeth.
** The GlobalAirship is a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV dragon]].
** Your CoolBoat in Part 2 is almost literally [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Syldra]]]] with [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Balamb Garden sitting on top of her head.]]]]
** The latter part of the game has the party [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII sneaking into a]] CrystalSpiresAndTogas [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Utopia through the backdoor, being forced to fight its misanthropic ruler, and then having to deal with the world's time periods being thrown into singularity]]]].
* NiceHat: Every class has one. [[AndZoidberg Except the Freelancer.]]
* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Heroes]]: By saving [[spoiler:Rolan from the darkness in his heart]], the heroes manage to [[spoiler:unleash that same darkness across ''the entire world'']]. Bravo. Somewhat subverted by the fact that this [[spoiler:sets them on the road to turning a previously CrapsackWorld into a much nicer place by destroying many great forces of evil]], but ''still''.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: After [[spoiler:darkness spreads across the world]], the world looks like it's in the middle of one of these.
* NintendoHard: "[[http://www.cheatcc.com/ds/rev/finalfantasythefourheroesoflightreview.html This game is so hardcore it doesn't even include a tutorial.]]"
** That said, once you get a handle of the battle system and how to utilize the different Crowns to their fullest, things get laughably easy until TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, [[spoiler:where you're stripped of all your Crowns and have to [[BossRush fight all seven demons again]] to get them back.]]
* NoCureForEvil: Averted in a few cases.
* [[NoRespectGuy No Respect Gal]]: [[FailureKnight Yunita]]. Aire makes a comment that Yunita can't handle things when left to herself. Nice job, boys.
* NowWhereWasIGoingAgain: Averted with gusto until you get the Transform Staff, after which you can ask the Adventurer's fox for direction.
* PeekABangs: Rolan.
* PlotDevice: The key items.
* PurelyAestheticGender: Female monsters with "Entice" have no trouble affecting Aire or Yunita.
* {{Qurac}}: Guera.
* {{Retraux}}: Nearly everything. This game could have easily been done in 8 bit or 16 bit, and it would have fit in perfectly.
* RoyalBrat: Aire. In an aversion, one of the party members tells her off and ''leaves her,'' '''and''' she actually has to suffer for her stupidity -- which includes the devastating punishment of [[spoiler:getting someone killed because of her greed and stubbornness, even if it's prevented later on]]. Thank you, Square Enix, thank you!
** It even leads to considerable CharacterDevelopment.
* SavePoint: In the form of the Adventurer, who appears in every town and in front of every boss room.
* ScratchDamage: Averted in the second half, where the enemy's levels scale to match yours.
* SceneryPorn: The art style's more notable points are its ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]''-esque vivid colors and lack of outlines, resulting in very pretty visuals more or less everywhere. [[http://ff4heroes.com/na/?page_id=1531 Arbor]] is a strong example of out-and-out scenery porn.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: With Ransom and Money Talks, the Merchant crown is ''made'' of this trope.
* SevenDeadlySins: See FauxSymbolism. But it gets weird, since some towns and their demons don't match the sins they were given.
* ShoutOut: The Claustrum staff rather resembles a [[KingdomHearts Keyblade]].
** The Metal Flan is reminiscent of the MetalSlime -- it's not immune to magic, but gives amazing XP and is highly resistant to everything. And it has bigger, angrier brothers.
** Urbeth is the name of a city in ForgottenRealms.
** Louhi is named after the main antagonist of TheKalevala, the Finnish national epic, who is also a shapeshifting witch from the GrimUpNorth.
* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: [=NPCs=] come with unique equipment, and when they leave, they take everything with them. Your party also does not have a universal inventory, although the storage and money system is universal -- so make sure to drop off some gear in the storage unit between bosses.
** You can also invert this by taking THEIR unique gear, letting you get better weapons and armor than you might have had.
* SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: The music [[VariableMix gains a bell/siren and changes tempo]] when you are at critical HP. Interestingly, one is used when bosses are at critical health, as well.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Data on the Japanese ROM give different spellings for almost all the towns' names: Horn vs. Horne, Gula vs. Guera, Elva vs. Arbor, Vulpes vs. Urbeth, and Superbia vs. Spelvia. The Japanese website also calls Krinjh 'Kirinjyu'.
* TakenForGranite: Whatever contract King Horne had with Louhi, he broke it, and everyone in Horne is turned to stone as a result.
** Also the result of being petrified, which is considered by game mechanics to be an almost identical condition to death. [[DeathIsCheap Just as curable, though]].
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:Satan, Chaos, and Mammon]] upon death.
* TurnsRed: The very first boss (Minotaur) when in critical health.
* VendorTrash: The eight kinds of Gems (in order of sell value): Ruby, Emerald, Topaz, Sapphire, Lapis, Aquamarine, Amethyst and Diamond.
* VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: A world of darkness rising up out of the ocean, which will eventually encroach upon the real world if not stopped.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Eventually, once you get the Transform Staff. Oddly, [[spoiler:neither Jusqua nor Yunita are at all alarmed to find themselves suddenly turned into animals with no real explanation]].
* WastedSong: The (very good) dragon riding tune is much longer than necessary, considering how small the game world is, and how quick it takes to ride from one place to another.
* WhereItAllBegan: Horne is the last town to be liberated from its demon in the second half.
* WideOpenSandbox: The second half of the game.
* WithThisHerring: For someone so desperate to have his daughter rescued, the King of Horne is a rather insidious penny pincher. Despite having an entire armory stocked with weapons and armor, he sends Brandt on his merry way with little more than a Steel Sword and a firm pat on the shoulder.
* WombLevel: The whirlpool at Liberte.
* WorldTree: The Great Tree, from which all magic originates.
* YouMustBeThisTallToEnter: Abused frequently once you get the transform staff.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Yes, the 4 heroes of light. They are heroes. They are of light. There are even 4 of them!]]
->''To thee I grant this gift of Light,\\
upon thy head a crown of might.''
''Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light'' is a GaidenGame or "spin-off" from the [[RunningGag ball-throbbingly popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series. It was released for the Nintendo DS console in Japan and was released in North America on October 5, 2010. The game is the second to be released with the ''Final Fantasy Gaiden'' subtitle in Japan, after ''[[FinalFantasyAdventure Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden]]'', though the two games have no relations to each other. Character design was done by Akihiko Yoshida, and Matrix Software, developers of various titles such as ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'' and the DS remakes of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV IV]]'' has returned to develop this title.
Like several titles of old, this game uses a ClassAndLevelSystem, here called the Crown System, but its unique variation lies in the fact that every character is essentially an [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Onion Knight]] in that they can equip anything; the jobs instead affect their usable skillset. Powering up the crowns involves a unique form of leveling via the application of [[VendorTrash disposable]] gems.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AnachronicOrder: The party splits up and joins up in different pairs at times, with each separate group's adventures happening simultaneously, with the BookEnds of some chapters making more sense when you see what the other party was doing. (e.g. [[spoiler:Brandt leaving Yunita to team up with a cat of all things ...who has a map ...because she's actually Aire.]])
* AnimalTalk: You can talk to any animal in animal form.
* {{Animorphism}}: Once you get the Transform Staff, [[IncrediblyLamePun go wild]].
* ArtificialStupidity: Targets are selected automatically (physical attacks target the first enemy on the left, magic on the right), instead of being chosen by the player. This can result in, for example, your Black Mage using a Quake spell, ignoring the enemy who's vulnerable to earth-based damage, and instead aiming at the flying enemy that's immune to the attack.
** It can also result in your WhiteMage using [[StatusBuff Esuna]] to heal the other characters of any status ailment under the sun that still allows them to fight and gain experience, but ignoring the one who's been [[TakenForGranite petrified]].
* AwesomeButImpractical: A lot of the level 3 crown skills. For example, the Elementalist's Elemental casts a series of spells of every element. This sounds pretty cool, except (1) the bosses that really matter are going to be resistant to every element but one, maybe two, and (2) given the previous, the only seemingly practical use of the skill would be exposing those few elemental weaknesses, but who needs that when you can just look up a guide?
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Aire]], who is turned into a cat; and [[spoiler:Brandt]], who is turned into ''a plant''.
* BladderOfSteel: No quicksaving or saving on the world map. You're going to have to wait for the fedora guy just like everybody else. Thankfully, it's a portable title, and a DS one at that, so the game can be put into sleep mode if it ''needs'' to be put down at any time.
* BonusBoss: Along with the bosses in the [[BonusDungeon towers]], there is the [[HopelessBossFight Ogre Bear]]. Hope you brought an Energy Screen.
* BonusDungeon: The towers, which are all randomized and contain {{Bonus Boss}}es.
* BossRush: In the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.
* BrokenBridge: All over the place in the first half of the game, that either only clear when you activate a certain event, or prevent you from going back.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the game, Aire is no longer a spoiled, selfish brat, Jusqua actually cares about people other than himself, Yunita has stopped being a FailureKnight, and Brandt... Well, Brandt's still an IdiotHero, but at least he's not abusing the "I must be stronger than everyone else!" cliché quite so hard anymore.
* ChekhovsGun: Remember that sign explaining how to handle sheep?
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Ankhel, Brandt's parrot]].
* ClassAndLevelSystem
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: By all appearances, wearing [[NiceHat hats]] is the only reason the quartet have any powers beyond their spell tomes.
** Not to mention the fact that good clothing -- not just armor, but also the stuff made of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin actual cloth]] -- gives higher base defense bonuses than ''the best shields''.
* CopyProtection: If you pirate the game, the enemies have infinite HP.
* CrapsackWorld: Even if you discount the fact that [[spoiler:demons are apparently running everything behind the scenes]], and instead just take everything at face value, most of the places you visit aren't very inviting places to live. Horne doesn't seem so bad [[spoiler:until everyone is turned to stone]], and Liberte's pretty nice (except for the pirate kidnappings), but every other city? Hoo boy.
** Guera: [[spoiler:The residents are trapped by a vicious sand demon and no one has entered or left the city in years. Also, an entire race of people was wiped out save for a SoleSurvivor.]]\\
Arbor: [[spoiler:The fairies dislike and distrust humans so much that any human who approaches Arbor, even if they mean no harm, is transformed into a plant. No, the fairies won't help you. You get to stay like that.]]\\
Urbeth: [[spoiler:A town obsessed with money, where the poor are barely dressed in rags, are barely able to eat, and are treated like second-class citizens.]]\\
Invidia: [[spoiler:It's constantly freezing, everyone is miserable, and it's ruled by a bitter man who is waiting on his son to finally come home to rule the world.]]\\
Spelvia: [[spoiler:Run by a misanthropic man who has been living with nothing but his hatred for hundreds of years. All of his robots are programmed to kill humans. Also, when the group finally manages to get him to let go of his hate, it turns out to be powerful enough to poison the rest of the world.]]
* CreditsMedley
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Crystal prefaces granting you the [[spoiler:Dark Fencer]] crown with the rather ominous "To thee I grant this gift of might, upon thy head a crown of...forbidden might." Shortly afterward, King Horne presents you with the spell [[spoiler:Desolator]] with similar gravitas.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Possibly. Dying strips you of half of any one category of gems -- which is devastating if the game randomly selects your Diamonds; not so much if it chooses the Rubies, or another lesser gem you have in low number. This trope is in full force if someone has equipped the Freelancer crown, which negates ''any'' penalty beyond being warped back to the last [[SavePoint Adventurer]].
* DegradedBoss: Trollud, the Liberte boss, is a normal monster in the ice caves before Invidia. Later, Behugemoth is added to the same caves, except the trope is inverted and he's ''much'' harder than before.
** In the second half of the game, [[PaletteSwap palette-swapped]] Minotaur can be found in the Quicksand Castle.
* DevelopersRoom: A limited and very obscure version: if you manage to make it to the northern part of Horne early in the game during nighttime when it's normally blocked by a sand whirlpool (either by dying in battle during nighttime before you save your game for the first time or using a Dragon Wing), the [=NPCs'=] dialogue changes to various messages from programmers.
* DoomedHometown: Everyone in Horne [[TakenForGranite turn to stone]] after defeating the Witch of the North.
* DualBoss: Geri and Freki.
* DynamicDifficulty
* [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: How well you do in boss battles later on largely depends on how well you play their vulnerabilities and resistances.
* EmergencyTransformation: Of a sort. [[spoiler:Brandt]] is transformed from a plant to a [[spoiler:puppy]], with the logic being that it's much easier to transform someone back to a human if they're already a conscious being.
* [[EveryManHasHisPrice Every Monster Has Its Price]]: The Merchant's Ransom ability allows a character to give up the gil equivalent to the damage s/he would have taken. With a full bank account[[hottip:*:Have fun abusing [[GameBreaker that Urbeth minigame]].]], a Merchant with the Ransom ability, and the [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Shield of Light]] equipped, you could theoretically defeat the final boss without taking a single scratch.
* {{Expy}}: Krinjh serves a similar purpose to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Minwu]], in that he serves as a CrutchCharacter early on, and also [[MythologyGag is a Spell Fencer (i.e. Mystic Knight). The costumes for male Mystic Knights in FF5 were based on Minwu]].
* FailureKnight: Yunita. And ''how''.
* FallenHero: Rolan, initially.
* FauxSymbolism: While it's not directly mentioned, each town represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and in the second half of the game is haunted by a demon also representing the sin.
* FireIceLightning: Rather differently from the ''FinalFantasy'' norm, however; Thunder is [[LightEmUp Light-elemental]] and Water and Blizzard both share the [[MakingASplash Water element]].
* FisherKing: [[spoiler:Rolan, almost literally. Helping him regain his confidence inadvertently released the darkness from his heart, putting the world in a time loop.]]
* FloatingContinent: Spelvia.
* GeorgeLucasThrowback: To the 8-bit era of [=RPGs=] and their {{Nintendo Hard}}ness. You can't save anywhere you want, inventory space is limited, and don't expect help if you ask "NowWhereWasIGoingAgain?"
* GlobalAirship: A dragon hatched from the egg in Invidia.
* [[GoodMorningCrono Good Morning Brandt]]: Nearly verbatim.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Krinjh the Spell Fencer in Guera, Torte the Sage in Arbor, Rekoteh the Dancer in Invidia, and Rolan the Hero in Spelvia. Note that these are all Crowns that you won't have yet when they're in your party.
* GuideDangIt: ''So much''. Let's put it this way, you won't know a lot of things about the game without a guide.
* {{Hello Insert Name Here}}: All four heroes are nameable.
* HighClassGlass: Comes pre-packaged with the Salve-Maker crown.
* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:Cat]] Aire VS Ogre Bear.
* IdiotHero: Brandt is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]] 2.0.
* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Each character can only hold 15 non-stackable items, including equipment and spells, though key items are separate. The storage can hold up to 99 of any item, of course.
** Don't forget abilities - there are only 6 slots for spells and Crown abilities.
* JackOfAllStats[=, =]MasterOfNone: Jusqua, whose Strength, Intellect, and Spirit stats all max out at 65.
* JerkAss: Jusqua, at first.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Rolan's heart has been festering in resentment and self-hatred for hundreds of years; in order for him to help the party, they must enter his heart and cleanse him of his demons.
* KarlMarxHatesYourGuts: Oh-so-averted in Urbeth's shopkeeping minigame, where the wealthy locals will pay several times the going rate for something you bought in the next street, or even the same shop. Unlimited profits, here we come.
* LethalJokeCharacter: The game seems to revel in kicking the shit out of the concept of {{Useless Useful Spell}}s, since most of the crowns are extremely purpose-built but manage to be absolute game breakers, such as the [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower seamstress]], [[CombatMedic salve-maker]], and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney merchant]]. The typical "I like swords" classes from the mainline ''FinalFantasy'' series, on the other hand, are average at best.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: While it's possible to kill just about every enemy you come across with physical attacks, you ''will'' need to rely on magic spells and Crown abilities, especially in the second half of the game where the enemy's levels scale to match yours.
* LostForever: Lots of items. Talk to everyone before and after certain plot flags, such as Kuore after being entrusted with the mission to go to the Witch's Mansion to rescue Aire.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: While the defense boosts on these aren't as large as those you get from [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman clothing]], it's the [[ElementalRockPaperScissors elemental resistances]] that will really come in handy.
* MagikarpPower: Remember that King's Shortsword Aire was carrying at the start of the game? ''Don't sell it.'' It's the strongest weapon in the game if you upgrade it, as it grows in effectiveness twice as much as regular equipment - ''including'' the Light set of equipment.
* MeaningfulName
** Horne is known for its wind. It's also known for its agriculture, making the name a probable horn of plenty reference. Also a visual pun - the 'r' and 'n' in 'Horne' together look like an 'm', thus making the name of the village 'Home.' As in, literally, your 'Home Town.' Which is then [[DoomedHometown doomed]].
** Liberte is Latin for "freedman". The local pirates go on about freedom a lot.
** Vulpes (Urbeth) may refer to the [[CunningLikeAFox fox-like cunning]] necessary to make it in a city full of hard-playing merchants.
** Arbor is housed in the [[WorldTree Great Tree]]. Its [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Japanese name]], "Elva", is [[HiddenElfVillage obvious]].
** Invidia is Latin for "[[GreenEyedMonster envy]]", and the locals are rightfully envious of the fact that other people get the occasional sunny day and they don't.
** Superbia (Spelvia) is Latin for "pride"--befitting of a floating city meant to enslave the world below and ruled by a hero who regards himself as above humanity.
* MiniGame: Two - a shopping mini-game in Urbeth which is used to grind for ''so much'' money, and a maths game in Invidia.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: King Horne is half Aire's size.
* MoneySpider: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], enemies drop VendorTrash rather than straight-up gil. Double averted, in the fact that the VendorTrash are gems, which you need for character and item leveling, and are impossible to get outside of combat.
* MythologyGag: The plot of the game initially concerns [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI saving a princess at the beginning]], and later on breaking a [[spoiler:StableTimeLoop]].
** To add to the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI FF1]] References, the Final Boss is named Chaos. In addition, one of his attacks is called [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Big Bang]].
** Krinjh is based on [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Ming-Wu]], up to and including [[spoiler:dying to save his country from an evil ruler.]]
** There is a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' potion sitting on the counter of the weapons store in Urbeth.
** The GlobalAirship is a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV dragon]].
** Your CoolBoat in Part 2 is almost literally [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Syldra]]]] with [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Balamb Garden sitting on top of her head.]]]]
** The latter part of the game has the party [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII sneaking into a]] CrystalSpiresAndTogas [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Utopia through the backdoor, being forced to fight its misanthropic ruler, and then having to deal with the world's time periods being thrown into singularity]]]].
* NiceHat: Every class has one. [[AndZoidberg Except the Freelancer.]]
* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Heroes]]: By saving [[spoiler:Rolan from the darkness in his heart]], the heroes manage to [[spoiler:unleash that same darkness across ''the entire world'']]. Bravo. Somewhat subverted by the fact that this [[spoiler:sets them on the road to turning a previously CrapsackWorld into a much nicer place by destroying many great forces of evil]], but ''still''.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: After [[spoiler:darkness spreads across the world]], the world looks like it's in the middle of one of these.
* NintendoHard: "[[http://www.cheatcc.com/ds/rev/finalfantasythefourheroesoflightreview.html This game is so hardcore it doesn't even include a tutorial.]]"
** That said, once you get a handle of the battle system and how to utilize the different Crowns to their fullest, things get laughably easy until TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, [[spoiler:where you're stripped of all your Crowns and have to [[BossRush fight all seven demons again]] to get them back.]]
* NoCureForEvil: Averted in a few cases.
* [[NoRespectGuy No Respect Gal]]: [[FailureKnight Yunita]]. Aire makes a comment that Yunita can't handle things when left to herself. Nice job, boys.
* NowWhereWasIGoingAgain: Averted with gusto until you get the Transform Staff, after which you can ask the Adventurer's fox for direction.
* PeekABangs: Rolan.
* PlotDevice: The key items.
* PurelyAestheticGender: Female monsters with "Entice" have no trouble affecting Aire or Yunita.
* {{Qurac}}: Guera.
* {{Retraux}}: Nearly everything. This game could have easily been done in 8 bit or 16 bit, and it would have fit in perfectly.
* RoyalBrat: Aire. In an aversion, one of the party members tells her off and ''leaves her,'' '''and''' she actually has to suffer for her stupidity -- which includes the devastating punishment of [[spoiler:getting someone killed because of her greed and stubbornness, even if it's prevented later on]]. Thank you, Square Enix, thank you!
** It even leads to considerable CharacterDevelopment.
* SavePoint: In the form of the Adventurer, who appears in every town and in front of every boss room.
* ScratchDamage: Averted in the second half, where the enemy's levels scale to match yours.
* SceneryPorn: The art style's more notable points are its ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]''-esque vivid colors and lack of outlines, resulting in very pretty visuals more or less everywhere. [[http://ff4heroes.com/na/?page_id=1531 Arbor]] is a strong example of out-and-out scenery porn.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: With Ransom and Money Talks, the Merchant crown is ''made'' of this trope.
* SevenDeadlySins: See FauxSymbolism. But it gets weird, since some towns and their demons don't match the sins they were given.
* ShoutOut: The Claustrum staff rather resembles a [[KingdomHearts Keyblade]].
** The Metal Flan is reminiscent of the MetalSlime -- it's not immune to magic, but gives amazing XP and is highly resistant to everything. And it has bigger, angrier brothers.
** Urbeth is the name of a city in ForgottenRealms.
** Louhi is named after the main antagonist of TheKalevala, the Finnish national epic, who is also a shapeshifting witch from the GrimUpNorth.
* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: [=NPCs=] come with unique equipment, and when they leave, they take everything with them. Your party also does not have a universal inventory, although the storage and money system is universal -- so make sure to drop off some gear in the storage unit between bosses.
** You can also invert this by taking THEIR unique gear, letting you get better weapons and armor than you might have had.
* SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: The music [[VariableMix gains a bell/siren and changes tempo]] when you are at critical HP. Interestingly, one is used when bosses are at critical health, as well.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Data on the Japanese ROM give different spellings for almost all the towns' names: Horn vs. Horne, Gula vs. Guera, Elva vs. Arbor, Vulpes vs. Urbeth, and Superbia vs. Spelvia. The Japanese website also calls Krinjh 'Kirinjyu'.
* TakenForGranite: Whatever contract King Horne had with Louhi, he broke it, and everyone in Horne is turned to stone as a result.
** Also the result of being petrified, which is considered by game mechanics to be an almost identical condition to death. [[DeathIsCheap Just as curable, though]].
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:Satan, Chaos, and Mammon]] upon death.
* TurnsRed: The very first boss (Minotaur) when in critical health.
* VendorTrash: The eight kinds of Gems (in order of sell value): Ruby, Emerald, Topaz, Sapphire, Lapis, Aquamarine, Amethyst and Diamond.
* VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: A world of darkness rising up out of the ocean, which will eventually encroach upon the real world if not stopped.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Eventually, once you get the Transform Staff. Oddly, [[spoiler:neither Jusqua nor Yunita are at all alarmed to find themselves suddenly turned into animals with no real explanation]].
* WastedSong: The (very good) dragon riding tune is much longer than necessary, considering how small the game world is, and how quick it takes to ride from one place to another.
* WhereItAllBegan: Horne is the last town to be liberated from its demon in the second half.
* WideOpenSandbox: The second half of the game.
* WithThisHerring: For someone so desperate to have his daughter rescued, the King of Horne is a rather insidious penny pincher. Despite having an entire armory stocked with weapons and armor, he sends Brandt on his merry way with little more than a Steel Sword and a firm pat on the shoulder.
* WombLevel: The whirlpool at Liberte.
* WorldTree: The Great Tree, from which all magic originates.
* YouMustBeThisTallToEnter: Abused frequently once you get the transform staff.
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