Video Game / Final Fantasy IV Unprecedented Crisis

Final Fantasy IV Unprecedented Crisis is a ROM hack of Final Fantasy IV by Pinkpuff.

This hack contains examples of:

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Cecil is much less of a sad sack here than in the original game, 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.
  • Rosa is an archer instead of a White Mage. She also escapes the Tower of Zot and ties up Barbariccia! And later helps fight off Golbez's airships during their Dwarven Castle bombardment.
• Adaptational Heroism: Kain doesn't end up being brainwashed by Golbez. Instead, he reveals to Cecil and co in the Tower of Zot that he is 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.
• Adaptational Job Change: Rosa is an archer instead of a White Mage, although she still gains access to some White Magic (mostly buffing spells). Downplayed with Rydia and Edge, who are still in their original jobs, but is unable to learn Black Magic at any point of the game and uses Black Magic instead of Ninjutsu respectively.
• Adaptational Wimp: Tellah's max MP is capped at 45, resulting in him being much less useful than he ever was in the vanilla game.
• Canon Welding:
  • In the Solo Paladin route, Zemus outright brags about creating Lavos.
  • The ending reveals that the crystals later end up coming under the threat of darkness again, leading to four heroes arriving to restore the light.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The Ice Cave from Final Fantasy appears as a level in the Underworld.
  • The Levistone is used to raise the Lunar Whale
• For Want Of A Nail: Leviathan doesn't sink Cecil's ship, instead sinking a ship Palom and Porom board later in the game setting off a whole new chain of events. Such as:
  • 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 what he done before the game started and believes he needs to redeem himself first.
  • Palom and Porom set off on a diplomatic trip to Baron, but along the way end up being kindly intercepted by Leviathan. They end up in the Dwarven Castle after Porom uses Warp to escape.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • The twins can still end up being turned into stone later in the game if you ever decide to visit the Serpant Path.
  • Rydia still gets separated from the rest of the party and ends up in the Feymarch, she doesn't age up though.
• New Game Plus: If the player defeats Zeromus with a solo Dark Knight Cecil, the game returns to the beginning, but with Cecil retaining his level, stats, and gold.
• No Fair Cheating: 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, the world record speedrun does this, ending up defeating the final boss in under an hour.
• Palette Swap: Many of the new bosses are palette swaps of vanilla FFIV bosses, including a set of 4 underworld fiends.
• Point of No Return: The Lunar Subterrane is now impossible to leave once you enter.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Gold Hourglass is renamed to the Time Egg.
  • Cid's airship is named the Red Dwarf.
  • The Octo Soul fight is modeled after the first battle with Ultros.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Tellah survives his fight with Golbez.
• Theme Naming: The four underworld fiends are also named for Maelbranche from The Divine Comedy.

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