Final Fantasy IV Recap, Ep. III: The Power of Shiny

Last time on Let's Play Final Fantasy IV, our Batman angstbucket hero made lots of friends.



And lost them.

Let's review Cecil's Very Bad Week.

• slaughtered innocent civilians while stealing their Crystal, feels remorse
  
• lost his position as proud leader of the Red Wings air brigade
  
• lost faith in / betrayed by the king who raised him as a son
  
• too stupid to realize the king was using him again for dastardly deeds
  
• accidentally burned a village to the ground and killed a bunch of summoners
  
• including the mother of a sweet child he's now guarding in atonement
  
• except now he's lost the child and she's probably drowned or dead
  
• attacked by an Octomammoth, which means that somewhere, in some fanfic, Cecil is stuck in tentacle!porn hell
  
• failed to save the kingdoms of Damcyan and Fabul from assault by the troops he used to command
  
• three out of four Crystals now in enemy hands thanks to his failures
  
• best friend has betrayed and tried to kill him
  
• girlfriend nearly died, then kidnapped by villain just to torment Cecil
  
• shipwrecked on the way to rescue said girlfriend
  
• as far as Cecil knows, the friends he dragged along on that rescue mission are dead
  
• girlfriend is gorgeous and underdressed, yet he's trapped inside armor that requires Jaws of Life to remove, so they probably haven't even made it to first base
  
• he's named Cecil Harvey.
  

Ouch. Surely things can't get any worse?

Ahahahaha. Let's go find out.

( On with the playthrough )