History VideoGame / FinalFantasyIVUnprecedentedCrisis

* ContinuityNod: The Ice Cave from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' appears as a level in the Underworld.

* LighterAndSofter: [[spoiler: Tellah survives his fight with Golbez]].

* ShoutOut: The Gold Hourglass is renamed to the [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Time Egg]].

** [[spoiler: Cecil can possibly stay a Dark Knight for the whole game. Since he doesn't wash up around Mysidia, he doesn't have any reason to go there. He isn't even able to step more than foot in the town initially due to believing he can't show his face there after [[WhatHaveIDone what he done]] before the game started and believes he needs to [[TheAtoner redeem himself]] first.]]

** [[spoiler: Rydia still gets seperated from the rest of the party and end up in Feymarch, she doesn't age up though.]]

* FanonWelding:
** [[spoiler: In the Solo Paladin route, Zemus outright brags about creating [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Lavos]]]].
** [[spoiler: The ending reveals that the crystals later end up coming under the threat of darkness again, leading to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI four]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII heroes]] arriving to restore the light.]]

* CanonWelding:
** [[spoiler: In the Solo Paladin route, Zemus outright brags about creating [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Lavos]]]].
** [[spoiler: The ending reveals that the crystals later end up coming under the threat of darkness again, leading to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI four]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII heroes]] arriving to restore the light.]]

** [[spoiler: Ending reveals that the crystals later end up coming under the threat of darkness again, leading to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI four]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII heroes]] arriving to restore the light.]]

* NoFairCheating: Trying to enter Mist from the other side (using the well-known Mist skip glitch from vanilla FFIV) will result in being teleported to the final dungeon, almost inevitably forcing a reset. However, [[https://www.speedrun.com/ff4uc/run/y210gx9z the world record speedrun]] does this, ending up winning the whole game in under an hour.

* NoFairCheating: Trying to enter Mist from the other side (using the well-known Mist skip glitch from vanilla FFIV) will result in being teleported to the final dungeon, almost inevitably forcing a reset.

* ForWantOfANail: Leviathan doesn't sink Cecil's ship, [[spoiler: instead sinking a ship Palom and Parom board later in the game]] setting off a whole new chain of events. Such as:

** [[spoiler: Palom and Parom set off on a diplomatic trip to Baron, but along the way end up being [[InSpiteOfANail kindly intercepted by Leviathan]]. They end up in the Dwarven Castle after Parom uses Warp to escape.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Kain doesn't end up being brainwashed by Golbez. Instead, he reveals to Cecil and co in the Tower of Zot that he is [[DoubleAgent: secretly working againist Golbez]] and even rejoins the party for a bit before leaving again to keep up the act. He blows his cover later on to save Cecil and co from Golbez in place of Rydia]].

* AdaptationalBadass: Cecil is much less of a sad sack here than in the original game, [[spoiler: most notably calling out Cagnazzo for masquerading as the King of Baron]]. Cecil becoming a Paladin is also optional, meaning Dark Knight Cecil is playable for the entire game, and can equip much more equipment and even cast Black Magic.
* CanonWelding: [[spoiler: In the Solo Paladin route, Zemus outright brags about creating [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Lavos]]]].

* ForWantOfANail: Leviathan doesn't sink Cecil's ship, setting off a whole new chain of events. Notably, becoming a paladin is optional and the game can be beaten with Dark Knight Cecil.

* AdaptationalBadass: Cecil is much less of a sad sack here than in the original game, [[spoiler]]most notably calling out Cagnazzo for masquerading as the King of Baron[[/spoiler]. Cecil becoming a Paladin is also optional, meaning Dark Knight Cecil is playable for the entire game, and can equip much more equipment and even cast Black Magic.

* AdaptationalBadass: Due to being playable for longer than the first third of the game, Dark Knight Cecil can equip much more equipment and even cast Black Magic.

* ThemeNaming: [[Spoiler: The four underworld fiends are also named for Maelbranche from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.]]

Final Fantasy IV Unprecedented Crisis is a [[GameMod ROM hack]] of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Final Fantasy II (US)]] by Pinkpuff.

* AdaptationalBadass: Dark Knight Cecil can equip much more equipment and even cast Black Magic.
* ContinuityNod: The [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Ice Cave]] appears as a level in the Underworld.
* ForWantOfANail: Leviathan doesn't sink Cecil's ship, setting off a whole new chain of events. Notably, because of this becoming a paladin is optional.
* NoFairCheating: Trying to enter Mist from the other side will result in being teleported to the final dungeon, forcing a reset (or restart if you saved).
* PaletteSwap: Many of the new bosses are palette swaps of vanilla FFIV bosses. Including [[spoiler:a set of 4 underworld fiends]]
* ShoutOut: The Gold Hourglass is renamed [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Time Egg]]

* PalletSwap: Many of the new bosses are palette swaps of vanilla FFIV bosses. Including [[spoiler:a set of 4 underworld fiends]]

* PalleteSwap: Many of the new bosses are palette swaps of vanilla FFIV bosses. Including [[spoiler:a set of 4 underworld fiends]]

* SchmuckBait: Trying to enter Mist from the other side will result in being teleported to the final dungeon, forcing a reset (or restart if you saved).

* SchmuckBait: Trying to skip Mist will result in being teleported to the final dungeon, forcing a reset (or restart if you saved).

Final Fantasy IV Unprecedented Crisis is a ROM hack of Final Fantasy II (US) by Pinkpuff.

* ShoutOut: The Gold Hourglass is renamed [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Time Egg]]