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  • Music Goes From Quite To Loud. You Know This Game Is Going To Be Good When You Hear This!!

  • The Beginning Of A Good Game!

  • This truly was the top, the pinnacle of epicness and awesomeness and ineffable greatness. FF6 is the best, technically, but somehow FF4 is the real best. It contains the core essense of Final Fantasy.

  • I think, yup, time to play this again

  • I came.

  • Im not gonna lie when I first heard this song i might've been 4 years old now, I'm 17 now... This FF was one of my favorites Idk why O yea its because it was so fun even for me being 4 years old not even knowing how to play... Just watching my brother play it and listening to this song made me so happy. Now being 17 I can play it realizing even at 4 I had very good taste in video games. To get to the point... 13 years later I love this game.

  • this FF game is the one I've beaten the most, probably because it moves so quickly (and is much shorter than all the subsequent FF games). Every song on the soundtrack is top notch as well.

    P.S. whatever happened to FF games being full of likable and heroic characters? SE really needs to take a few notes from this game for the next FF.

  • The number of monsters is increasing lately. Because of the crystals?

  • 1:02 Lunar subterranean levels 

  • This game is the best Final Fantasy ever.

    Why?

    1-Great storyline

    2-Awesome characters

    3-Epic soundtrack

    4-Great gameplay.

    unlike Final Fantasy VII

  • I find it amusing to think when I first played this, and heard this theme. A good number of people reading these comments weren't even born.

    An entire generation able to be dated by which FF game came out at the time.

  • Red Wings in FF4, Avalanche in FF7, are Square NHL fans?

  • the best is at the end when they touch all eight of the crystals and teleport to the final dungeon and cecil is surrounded by the other 4 and he nods as if saying "let's do it!"

  • One of greatest theme in SNES history.

  • Man, this song is so bad ass... It still gives me chills after 20 years...

  • This song is so fucking bad ass... Still gives me chills after 20 years...

  • can you loop this?

  • Final Fantasy 2 was my first RPG, I'll never forget this game. I rented from my local video store as a young Jr. High kid. This game is by far the best Final Fantasy game I've ever played. I have so many memories of this game. Listening to this music makes me cry tears of joy and am now 28 years old. Wow...how time flies. I love this game so much :)

  • @sokiet Red Wings just fills me with a sense of pride like you wanna sit up straight or going into battle against an enemy that is superior. It's an awesome song and I'm happy that someone else grew up with it too as their first RPG, I'm 22 now and i still remember like it was yesterday shoving that cartridge into the SNES not knowing i was actually beginning on something that would make me who i am today. 

  • @SuperTerran123

    Captain Terran, make ready my ship!

    ... its time to show those dogs what we're made of.

  • @sokiet I understand so much how you feel! I learned english with this game! Renting it, and gradually understanding what they were saying! :)

  • @sokiet This was my first FinalFnatasy game also. Now I have beaten I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, Mystic Quest, and Adventure. What memories indeed.

  • This song is why I play Paladin in just about any MMO or RPG when the option is available.

  • @Aeonknight glad im not the only one

  • Final Fantasy's answer to the Imperial March.

  • This is the theme I listen to when I need to be serious about something.

  • Reminds me of the Lunar Core.

  • I was listening to The Axis of Perdition (Pendulum Prey) and this was a response...Umm, yeah.

  • I just started a Let's Play of this EPIC game! Check it out if you like, I'd love to get feedback!

  • Sound like your starting your journey.

  • ahhh the classic final fantasy days, remember getting the last copy at funco land when i was younger when they released this classic game still an amazing game up there with chrono trigger and the lufia series

  • When I booted up FF4 and this music was playing in conjunction with Cecil on his way back to Baron from Mysidia, having flashbacks and feeling remorse for his role in what happened... I knew it would be an epic game.

  • This music dances in my head whenever something epic is happening.

  • I hum this when I run in track meets for motivation because this song is so bad ass!

  • LIT BOLT and Fire Bomb--

    Cecil means business.

  • what a glorious, climactic battle this would be. the beginning part; the troopers are being lead to battle, the latter part; the clashing of swords between a hero and his arch nemesis.

  • Thank you for putting all these good tracks up. This is honestly my favorite game of all time.

  • Final Fantasy IV really set the bar high when I was a young kid. The action, the music, the drama, it blew my mind to see such a masterpiece put into my hands. It's my favorite RPG of all time and will be my favorite RPG for a long time.

  • HAIL FFIV!!!!!

  • Hearing this in the final dungeon, I really felt the game speak to me:

    "This is it. The end of this long road has arrived. It is time for the final battle."

  • @MrEpicTruth This plays at the beginning of the game on the air ship.

  • @newcoke23 And then again in the final floor of the Lunar Subterrane before fighting Zeromus.

  • The intro scene really set the tone for FFIV. Instead of starting out as a nobody, or a hero-to-be peasant, you start out as Cecil, dark knight, commander of the largest & most feared military in the world, Baron.

    FFIV was one of the first games I can recall that didn't start you off as a blue boy hero. Hell, you were the villain---you robbed the nation of Mysidia of its crystal. The rest of the game was about redemption.

    I'll never forget the intro, or the Paladin scene. Just epic.

  • @DigitalOberon Best start of a game ever

  • I love how all the comments here are regarding Final Fantasy VII.

    If that wasn't the best Final Fantasy game, then why are people still talking about it?

    It's okay to like something that a lot of people like, even if you are a "hardcore gamer"

    I played every Final Fantasy released in the states the day they came out.

    If you want to talk about underrated Final Fantasy games, play IX (even if Zidane is slightly annoying).

  • Now this is why I don't only play FF7.

    FF7 is overrated, why spend 500+ hours on it when you can play the others?

  • @n00bz00rd

    hey, why does eveyone love FF7???

    I haven't played it but i hear it awesome

    I just wanted to see if you knew, thanx

  • @gavacho17 Its release was very very well-timed: if not a release title for the Playstation, then close. Square were already adept at RPGs, and since the numbers behind this game (its combat system) would be essentially applicable on any format, they were able to execute the idea optimally, on a new format, with un-seen graphics. Their utilisation of a new presentational means meant that they would cast a huge net, and they did. That's my guess as to why it's so popular.

  • @Kelvinian

    thanx 4 the feed back

    fuck dude, you are sooo articulate man

  • @gavacho17 you know, as a fan of the old school snes FF games, i give FF7 a lot of shit, but actually it's a great game. i do still think it's overrated relative to this and FF6 but it's still excellent. i would definitely invest time in playing it...but it still has NOTHING on xenogears!

  • @wunderbeast

    I saw gameplay but I really never heard of the game.

    a lot of people LOVE it to Death apparently!!!

    I cant say which RPG is the best, I'm a Zelda fan to tell the truth, so YEAH

  • @gavacho17 Zelda is an action game.

  • @suburbanindie

    LOL

    not really, its more of a puzzle/strategy series

  • @gavacho17 Twilight Princess for the gamecube = soo soooo good

    Final Fantasy IV was very special to a lot of people, i wasn't around when it was released but i purchased it later (to complete my collection) as i bought Final Fantasy VII.....blew me away!

    Ocarina of Time though is by far a very very special game to me, it set such a high bar for 3D gaming!

  • best FF opening. FF7's opening comes close.

  • I love how the drums sound a military marching theme.

  • @WolfenNights It IS a military march. The Red Wings are Baron's air force.

  • Funny how the "up next" video after this one ends is "Detroit Red Wings Video Music"

    Lol

  • cecil is my favorite final fantasy character. if there was a group battle between cecil and kain versus the entire cast of good guys on ff xiii, cecil and kain would wipe the floor with them. that's how badass they are. in fact, i'd love to see that.

  • @wunderbeast

    me too

    Cecil is BAD ASS

    so is Kain, I just remembered that as a kid I played this, so i got back into it.

    FF7 got nothin on 4

  • Tiem to stealz some crystalz!!

  • Love this song, just like a lot of the FF's song

  • I like to listen to this before going to college everyday, gets me all pumped up \m/

  • lol WTF, this sounds nothing like a FF7 song. the drums are a big give away. Too many FF7 lovers out there, there are 2 or 3 better FF games out there.

  • Has a very Final Fantasy 7 feel to it

  • @Golzernurf No, No it does not.

  • @Golzernurf Screw that final fantasy 7 has a final fantasy 4 feel.

  • To the promised land!

    Oh sorry, wrong game

  • I don't think they'll ever match the epicness that is this game again. God I miss the old school fantasy before the characters started wearing rediculous outfits in liue of freaking armor.

  • This song appars in Dissidia too in his original SNES version <3

  • when cecil become paladin is the most epic part in FF

  • Aww the game that started my final fantasy addiction.

  • @WJerrod30 Mine too. Despite its retro-ness now, I still enjoy playing it. The newer games just can't compare.

  • Umm isnt it final fantasy 4???

  • @Freyboy100 Originally yes it is, but on the US this was II for the SNES like VI here in the US was III for the SNES. Confusing, yes, but I'm glad they fixed it now.

  • This version is so easy to a child to play. But the first japanese release is a serious shit. Zeromus kicked my ass 10 times. Win with fucking lucky at 60 ><

  • wooooo go red wings!

  • You know, I'm 31 now-- one of those "first generation gamers." I still remember this soundtrack. This game is most definately one of my favorites of all time, I really miss the old final fantasy games.

  • man this beat just makes you ge ready for anything a fight, eating, etc

  • @MrMuzzy157 I can imagine getting ready to take a dump to this. Walking down the hallway towards the restroom in slow motion.

  • @spacesamurai27 Thanks for the laugh man, you are awesome dude!

  • this neoubu guy is a genious!

  • Looking back I think it's kind of funny how my parents thought I was always playing some light hearted game, some plumber jumping on turtles. Little did they know the Final Fantasy world was fuckn serious business. I know this sounds kind of nerdy, but when I played this one I was VERY young... 5 or 6. I really think the early Final Fantasy's aided my brain intellectually.

  • Something about this theme is more magical to me than the one in the DS...

  • ff4 has the best soundtrack in the ff series.

    This and of course ff9 being my second favorite music.

  • @piromaniac9999

    hell yea

  • i love all the songs of this game

    i was going to give you a list of probably 30 or 40 songs in ff4 that i absolutely love but no need.

    I might as well say i love all the songs.

  • These song to me it by for the best battle song even though we never get to fight with it. I remember watching those first couple of spells being cast like wow.. 4000 damage.. those were the days.

  • is there a more epic feeling opening song to any 16 bit game? i think not.. 8 bit = ninja gaiden 2 opening...but yeah.

  • I hate hockey but if Detroit Red Wings came out to this I would become a fan and watch all their games!!! lol

  • I literally boned myself when I heard this for the first time.

    Greatest theme to any faction in the FF series.

    So damn epic

  • Honestly, the first time I saw Lord Captain Cecil, I thought he would be the antagonist.

  • The Black Knight ALWAYS triumphs!

  • @Fake: for serious...thoughtlessly firebombing ravens left and right...now litbolting the deadeyes, that I can back

  • this game and soundtrack makes me sad im going to die.

  • ROFL this should be the hockey teams theme (Red Wings)

  • Detroit Red Wings skating out to this? I'd watch them play just for that.

  • @sabombardonist

    i dont even like hockey, but i'd what intros just for that

  • @sabombardonist

    awesome song, but down with the red wings. leafs for life!

  • @sabombardonist the only time anyone should watch em play. Amirite?

  • @sabombardonist Yeah it would be cool in theory, but I don't know if this track has the right hockey arena feel, though. =P

  • @sabombardonist I hope you have your red wings on.

  • @sabombardonist June 12, 2009

    When the greatest team to ever exist won.

  • @sabombardonist I would be laugh when the Red Wings Air Ships would be in our world and wanted to took control over it. :D

    ITS IMPOSSIBLE.

  • @Flaoither3 You can make them skate out to this theme in nhl 10 with the custom soundtrack feature.

  • @Flaoither3 Read my mind.

  • @Flaoither3 your kinda right but it would sound better for a Red bull hockey team you know because in the commecials they gain wings..

  • this makes a great ringtone for when my mom calls...

  • @kishire6murcielago

    Dark Knight + Dragoon = OMG OWNAGE!!

  • man i love this theme! listening to this brings back so many memories... im here looking at my super nintendo on my dresser and it has this game in it... im gonna play it!

    also i noticed and if uu could upload "into the darkness" (cave theme) and "land of summons" thx

  • this is the best version

  • the first song I heard after what I thought was the greatest version of the prelude I had ever heard. i was HOOKED from the second I heard this song.

  • a battle march with a very sad overtone which perfectly describes the character.... man shit was so pure back in the day. my name's cecil too so i took a real liking to this char WAY back when i first played it too lol

  • is your name really Cecil? that's a cool name, but fortunately, it's rare her in AMerica, and the reason why that's good, because it makes the name even more rare, and cool. lucky you.

  • @corrosivetrip , I think the theme suits the opening scene perfectly. feeling guilt about the spilled blood.

  • i thought that characters often had names no one had mostly. but hey i was wrong and you lucky guy have the same name as one of the best main characters in the series.

  • Dont call him God his just talented king of music!

  • Dragoon > Dark Knight

  • PSHHH. DARK KNIGHTS > dragoons. Dark knights ftw.

  • Def man Def.

  • Cecil is fucking badass, and this theme suits him perfectly. Nobuo Uematsu is GOD. Enough said.

  • Hell yeah. Reading your comment with this music going pumped me up.

  • I remember Cecil by hearing this...

  • To me, this doesn't sound quite like the snes version. It's almost the same but slightly off. The one on youtube called "Final Fantasy II (SNES) - The Red Wings" sounds more like what I remember.

    Am I imagining things?

  • You're right! I can notice that too. Maybe the emulation was a bit off on this recording.

  • I clearly remember that in some part in the bestiary of FFXII they mention that a nation used red color for their flags and ships, and that it represented the power of that nation, being airships their strongest force, can't help but think about the Red Wings, even though they never mention which nation or where it is.

  • HA I knew I wasn't seeing things lol

    I remember seeing it in the FFXII Bestiary.. but

    i cannot remember which one had it. :(

  • YAY MUSIC IN A BUCKET

  • PALADIN AND DARK KNIGHT CECIL IS DA MAN

  • You hear they are finally doing a sequel to this? Based around Rosa and Cecil's son

  • What!? tell me more!

  • the first two chapters have been released in Japan, its called Final fantasy 4-the after years, takes place 17 years after Cecil became King of Baron, you play as Cedore. Many of the old cast return from what i;ve heard. its slated for release here in the US eventually. it'll be for download on Wiiware. It uses the original graphic system, so dont expect 3d graphics and full motion video. but the old graphics are still great in my opinion

  • So we have to get a wii to play it...?

  • i ain't buyin' no wii, but i would like to play the game

  • There may eventually be a ROM of some sort - there always is.

  • YHEA SAME HERE

  • Don't quote me on this, but I believe you can play it on a mobile device.

  • WE can't

    however, it was originally released on cell phones in japan

  • Well you can if you just record it on your phone. But sometimes is crappy quality.

  • GBA & there is a DS remake

  • they made it for playstation1

  • the original version was FFIV from snes, later square made remake for psone

  • unfortunatly, the first part got terrible reviews. the encounter rate is apparently ridiculously high and it's only like part of a game revolving around 1 character at a time. I want to play it for the sake of being an old school fan of this game when i was a kid, but I don't know how it will make me feel.

  • Youtube's wierdness keeps me from tracking the origin of your response, but I assume you're talking about The After Years? I hear the encounter rate is no different than the original game, but it's just considered too much for today's gamers. Could be wrong since I never played it, though... Anywho, it's a multi-parter, and I hear they all join together in the last part which is about half as long as the rest put together, so it's really like a lot of other normal games when it's complete.

  • hm. I certainly hope so. I also agree that gamers these days are too picky about encounter rates. that's more than half the gameplay, the encounters and boss fights. love it or STFU.

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  • This music is saying:

    "Your mission awaits"

  • yup yup!

  • ff4 is the best

  • It has to be said, I'm not a fan of the American Final Fantasy covers. The Sword and red background don't beat Kain or the Dragon or M-Tech Armour.

  • I haven't seen the Magitek Armor cover, but Kain is totally awesome. But Cecil was the main character!!

  • Kain was more of a badass than Cecil lmao! No disrespect to my man Cecil but, Kain was awesome.

  • The rival/best friend to the main character is always more bad ass than the main character himself. how would you feel to have a less awesome guy as your partner?

  • Best theme EVER!

  • don't care what anyone says, this is the best version of this song, the DS and orchestrated ones suck hugely.

  • yup!!! lol had this for snes and my dad MADE ME SELL IT!!!! for 20 bucks! id love to have finished it...but the cart was defective it wouldnt hold saves...

  • Yeah I remember the instruction manual even said you should save multiple times in case a save is lost lol

  • I'm sooo glad I bought this for SNES instead of GBA or DS. It is MEANT to be played on the bog screen with big speakers.

  • The orchestrated ones are nice, but it would seriously be a lot better with some brass instruments in the background, as it sounds like here

  • Yep i would agree entirely

  • wasn't this also played when cecil fought his dark self?

  • Yeah, it is. :D

  • No song imbues me with more nostalgia than this. First game I ever played when I was 4.

    This is when Nobou Uematsu retained his true genious; a shame later soundtracks lack such personality and luster.

    LONG LIVE FFIV!

  • I believe that FFIV was indeed a great game but I wouldn't say that the ones after had soundtracks that weren't as good. FFV had a good dungeon theme. FFVI had a lot of good character themes like Celes, Terra, Edgar and Sabin's themes. FFVII had themes like 'Judgment day' and the really well known 'Aerith's theme'. but you're right, FFIV did have some really great ones.

  • Uematsu's overflowing creativeness :)

  • I agree completely, although with me, it has to be the main FFIV theme that really brings me back. Though I loved Uematsu in FFVI and VII, I personally feel his work in IV is the most inspired and nuanced.

  • The intro to this game affected my life greatly, I played it for the first time when I was 6 and I was totally drawn in to this world.

  • As soon as I started the game (years ago), and I heard this play, I just knew this game was going to be something special.

  • i always listen to this in the moon part(until i got attacked, which sucked)