With Final Fantasy III selling over one million units in 1990, Hironobu Sakaguchi and his team were preparing to send off the Famicom while also embracing the new 16-bit Super Famicom. But with so many of the original team moving on to different projects, Final Fantasy IV would prove to be a new beginning for the series as well as a celebration of what it has built so far.

In this installment, we'll be examining Final Fantasy IV's development, themes, characters, influences, and symbolism, as well as how it would lay a new foundation for the series going forward. We will also be looking at how subsequent iterations have built upon the original and reimagined it for new generations.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:55 Part I - Coming to America
15:43 Part II - Ultimate Fantasy
25:37 Patreon
25:52 Part III - Final Fantasy IV
29:10 Character First
33:41 Aesthetics of Storytelling
50:18 New Console, New Combat, New Dungeons
1:01:40 The Party as People
1:09:02 Influences
1:21:25 Revelation & Resolution
1:43:35 Personal Thoughts
1:45:43 Part IV - Closing the Sequel Gap
1:50:55 Part V - The Proliferation of Final Fantasy IV
2:07:38 Part VI - Reception & Legacy
2:17:38 Epilogue & To Be Continued...

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