There's a bunch of reasons Final Fantasy IV: The After Years is meh but a big one is how it narrowly avoided the funniest thing possible in the setting: Dark Kain bursting into the Baron throne room, finding out Cecil is obviously brainwashed, and throwing his spear to the ground in a huff saying "well now that you're evil killing you won't be as fun anymore" >:[
This was done so Ceodore and the Hooded Man could dramatically catch up to Dark Kain at the last possible second but this ends up putting Kain's climactic redemption mirror-image battle in the fucking hallway
the fucking. hallway. lmao loser










