FFIV - Surprisingly Controversial!

One of the really surprising things about Final Fantasy IV is just how controversial it is. Your first quest of the game involves you taking a friendly package to the village of summoners to the North. This has all the feelings of a fetch quest, but you'd be wrong if you thought this would be a Get X, Take to Y, Get Z from Y, Take Z to AA.....

In fact -- when you deliver the package to the village, it contains.... Bombs. I'll pause for a moment while you're paralyzed from laughter.

No, really. I can wait. The package was full of BOMBs. Get it? BOMBS? Ahaha.

Things go pretty smoothly from here -- I mean, he DOES kill one of our character's daughter (and another character's love interest!), when he blows up a neighboring kingdom, which pretty much causes an international incident. I mean, we have some pretty serious warmongers coming in future Final Fantasies, and maybe it's just a product of the Times that we now live in (TM), but Golbez really was the king of the preemptive strike strategery.







So, we team up with a neighboring kingdom. The boys go off to fight and kill, and the girls? Well, I can only assume they're sipping Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain. Despite the girls taking the 'office of relief", this scene does lead to probably the most clever bit of dialogue we've seen yet.

Occasionally, the translators do hit the mark.