I realize this isn't on-topic, however, I almost always feel the need to butt in when FFIV is being discussed.
About a year ago, a few members and I had a discussion on how this game is easily one of the few masterpieces in the series.
While the game is owed its due criticism, I'm unsure some of what it is getting here in this thread is warranted.
Edit: I should probably expand: I thought FFIV to have some of the series' strongest, best developed characters in the game - Kain and Rydia both immediately come to mind; Along with that, it is easily is the most thematically coherent among all iterations; and though the story was nothing extraordinary (it didn't have to be) it was conveyed in a manner that was incredibly easy to follow, coherent, focused and was aided with a pretty tight script (DS version, of course).
