Final Fantasy 4 Beginner Club W08
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Please be extra-mindful of spoilers, as these games become more and more plot-driven it’s important to avoid revealing even minor details of future events, characters and locations. If you’re not sure if something is spoilery or not, better just throws it in a [spoiler] just in case.
Stopping point
After getting the last Dark Crystal and returning to the map.
There are also 2 optional (but highly recommended) dungeons that I cover this week:
- 幻獣の洞窟
- シルフの洞窟
More details
Last week we recruited Edge the Shadowhog and explored the Tower of Babil once more. We almost reached the Crystals but had to settle for a tactical retreat on a new ship, the Falcon.
Start by flying the Falcon back to the Dwarf Fortress. Talk to the king and he’ll tell you to go to the Sealed Cave to collect the last Crystal before Golbez manages to make his way there. Surely this time we won’t fail?
Turns out that to reach the cave we need to be able to fly over lava, and the Falcon can’t do that. Explore the castle’s 地下１階 to find someone who will help with that.
Once you have the upgraded Falcon, you can continue the main story by flying straight to the sealed cave to the south, but there’s also some side-content we can do.
トメラの村 〔任意〕
To the very South of the map you can find the village of トメラ:
There you can find some nice treasures and good shop.
鍛冶屋のククロの家〔任意〕
East of Tomera you can find a lone building housing a forge. There isn’t much to do there but collect a few items. If you talk to the people there you should be able to figure out what this place will be for…
幻獣の洞窟〔任意〕
An optional area we can explore this week is a cave on an island West of the Dwarf Castle:
One thing that will make this dungeon a lot easier is having access to Rosa’s レビテト spell (which she learns at level 35). You can cast this on your party from the menu in order to safely walk over the trapped tiles that deal a fairly heavy amount of damage. Note that you’ll have to recast the spell after every level transition.
If you don’t have access to the spell yet, I recommend going to the 封印の洞窟 and explore it until you’ve grinded enough levels.
Once you reach the 幻獣の町, make sure that you collect the Rat’s Tail, it’s going to be useful later.
After that you will be given the opportunity to fight two bosses, which will each grant you a summon. These summons will be required for further sidequests in the upcoming weeks.
There’s also a hidden teleporter in the 地下４階 near a purple-hooded creature that leads to secret treasure:
Then from that area you can teleport directly out of the cave by walking on the tile completely to the south:
This way you won’t have to walk all the way out.
シルフの洞窟〔任意〕
If you go towards the North-West corner of the map, you’ll find another cave:
Inside the cave, you’ll find that you have to use a similar strategy as the 幻獣の洞窟: cast レビテト on your party to neutralize the trapped tiles.
This dungeon is harder to navigate and has stronger enemies than the 幻獣の洞窟, make sure that you’re well prepared before going in. There are a lot of hard-to-find invisible wall leading to good treasures that are almost impossible to figure out in the Super Famicom version. You can find maps here if you want:
At the bottom you’ll find a house, make sure to talk to the person in the bed. Then you can take the staircase up to a platform where you’ll find a teleporter that will take you out of the cave.
封印の洞窟
Go to the walled-in cave entrance West of トメラ to reach the Sealed Cave.
Remember that you can cast デジョン with Lydia to exit the cave and rest/restock/save if you need to.
Boss strategy:
As you can guess, you have to defeat the boss quickly or it will start using insta-kill moves. Casting slow on the boss and berserk/haste on your team (using spells or items like 蜘蛛の糸 and バッカスの酒) is a good idea. The Avenger that you can find in Sylph Cave auto-berserks one of your fighters, so it’s good to have. My overall strategy was to use a 蜘蛛の糸 as early as possible to slow the boss, then berserk Cecil, Kain and Edge, then Haste Rosa and Lydia. The fight was pretty easy that way.
If you find that it’s really too hard and you haven’t done the two optional dungeons yet, it may be a good idea to bail from the cave at this point and do those first. The levels you have gained going down should make those dungeons easier, and the XP and loot you’ll get there will make this boss a lot more approachable.
Once you’re done you can spam デジョン to return to the map.
Map
Miscellaneous
開発室
There’s an easter egg left by the dev team in the Dwarf Castle, but it’s not available in every version (I think it’s missing from the Pixel Remaster?)
To reach it, you first have to get to the pub that’s located between the two shops:
Then you cross an invisible wall to the right of the entrance:
That leads to to a staircase to the “development room”:
There you can talk with various NPCs representing the developers, and there are easter eggs all over the place:
You can carry the エッチな本 with you for the rest of the game, or use it to trigger a… cutscene?
Spoilers for this week below:
The Warp glitch
There’s actually a glitch that can be exploited in the Super Famicom and PS1 versions of the game to skip the Sealed Cave completely, although by the time you get to this week it’s too late to execute it.
The trick is available just after fighting the marionettes when we first reach the Dwarf Castle. Lydia comes back and saves the party, but Golbez’s hand manages to snatch the Crystal. Then the cutscene brings you back to the throne room.
At this point, as soon as you regain control, if you cast デジョン you’ll be will be warped back to the crystal room. The devs didn’t account for this in the original version, so a crystal will erroneously still be present and you can take it:
Later if you enter the Sealed Cave with the Crystal already in your inventory, the game will think that you have completed the dungeon and trigger the final cutscene, letting you skip the entirety of the dungeon.
Track of the week
Participation
- I’m playing along
- I will catch up later
- I’m still playing but I haven’t reached this section yet
- I’m a filthy preplayer but I’m here for the discussion
