Bucketon FF Update #2: Final Fantasy IV Advance – 100 % Done & Bucketon Humor

AILAE, DON’T READ THIS ENTRY. It contains MAJOR and NON-MAJOR SPOILERS ABOUT IV, even in the pictures.

I am finally done with Final Fantasy IV Advance. I completed the main story a few days ago and then moved onto complete everything optional I still had left – meaning Bestiary and Bonus Dungeon (Lunar Ruins). Luckily, doing the Bonus Dungeon meant completing the Bestiary too.

And now that I’m done with IV Advance, I can go play the FF game that is IV Advance backwards – so, here I come, Ecnavda VI – err, I mean, VI Advance.

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WARNING! ANOTHER FF RANT BELOW. SKIP DOWN TO PICTURES IF YOU WANT!

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In the Lunar Ruins, each character still playable (everyone but two – Tellah and FuSoYa) can do a trial where they must face their worst fears. Now, since you can only have five characters in your team at a time, you MUST make a minimum of two visits in the Lunar Ruins to complete them all.

The Lunar Ruins consists of 50 floors and most of those are floors where you must/can a) solve a puzzle, b) go through an exact copy of a place you went through during the game, c) heal with some Sylphs or d) go shopping. However, there are also other special floors: a) The floors with the trials, b) a floor where Black and White Magic is mostly ineffective, c) a floor where attacking is futile, d) a floor where a foe named Brachiodaros wanders (he can be avoided since he shows up on the map and he is deadly. VERY deadly), e) A floor where a guy questions you and gives you a prize if you answer right, f) a floor where you must memorize a sequence of numbers and step on numbered tiles in that order, g) a floor where you have to fight a lone Platinum Toad to give to a NPC, h) a floor where you have to fight evil dolls and i) The final floor.

In the final floor, you fight Zeromus EG, a powered up (and different looking) version of Zeromus, the main story’s final boss. The EG stands for Easy Game, since Zeromus EG was taken from Final Fantasy IV Easytype, a version of the game that was made much simpler and easier. However, Zeromus EG is harder than the actual Zeromus, but by the time you get to him, he isn’t that hard.

Anyhow, since probably only Michael reads that (and I told him not to read my FF rants), here are pictures to grab the attention of those who don’t like text:

Steiner swears to avenge Garland (Tellah, who just killed himself off) and Anna, his daughter. Now, it would be easier for me to do that if Anna hadn't been made such a generic NPC.

Here's Tellah killing himself by using Meteor.

Shortly after losing Tellah, Cid decides to go out with a bang...

The BANG.

After a lot of storyline stuff, which I didn't screenie (such as Yang blowing himself off too), I got to the Lunar Ruins (bonus dungeon) and here I am completing it for the 2nd time. And yes, Cid and Yang are visibly alive here, as is one of the twins (see Humor section).

Bestiary status after 2nd fight against Zeromus EG

Levels of the fighting party after 2nd Bonus Dungeon visit

Levels of the others (except Fratly/Kain and Eiko/Rydia) after 2nd Bonus Dungeon visit

The numbers and names of the four enemies I still had to face before getting 100 % Bestiary completion

Levels of the Party after 100 % Optional and Game Completion (Part 1)

Levels of the Party after 100 % Optional and Game Completion (Part 2)

Here the twins perform Double Meteor, a move used by FuSoYa and Golbez against Zemus. It's exclusively available for the twins in the Advance version.

And here's the awesome Music Player. I'm sure at least 1337 knows what the music currently playing is 😛

Final Fantasy IV Humor & FF IX Names in FF IV

Oh, the fun you can have by switching the on-screen character to male when the NPC is talking to a female character

The twins turn into stone to stop the party from being crushed. Tellah can't cure them with Esuna, because they wanted to turn to stone. However, later on, the Elder of Mysidia somehow manages to free them...

All the soldiers in Troia are females who wear dresses. However, who are these male soldiers inside the castle then?

The Dev Office houses the former Development Team of IV from 1991. You can fight and talk to them. You can also get a Magazine ('adult literature' that Cecil/Steiner likes) from the bookshelf next to Cecil/Steiner in this picture. Also, you can win some Magazines from one of the foes. I got a total of 11 xD Anyhow, in this picture, one of them 'joins' your party, just like one of the foes in-game, Baigan, does.

In old FFs, summons were represented by normal human sprites in when met. This here is Bahamut.

Continuation of the IX names in IV. Kain is Sir Fratley and Cid is... Cid.

Here are the final two IX names. FuSoYa is Kuja (yeah, they're not very alike each other xD) and Edge is Gil, a name by which Gilgamesh in IX is called by "his brother".

P.S. Trivia 1’s Question 2 is up. I’ll always put them up as soon as I see the previous one has been answered, so check back there often.