Final fantasy IV is worse than I remember

 Been replaying older Final Fantasies and scratching items off my Bucket list like Beating Ozma in FFIX, getting all characters (including Gogo and Umaro) in FFVI... eventually I'll tackle 2 and 3... Japanese 2 and 3. I'm currently tackling American 2, Japanese 4 and as the title says: it's worse than I remember.

Now I remember why I gave up on this game back in college. It's a load of bullshit!

The story is nonsensical: bad guy is evil because he didn't want to go to sleep. Then the good guys are just a bunch of incompetent morons that end up killing themselves left and right, except no one TRULY dies other than Sage Tellah, whose only useful contribution to the saga is literally the phrase: "You spoony Bard!" 

Yang sacrifices himself, but can be found alive later. Same thing for Cid. Then we have Kain the flip flopper. Dude switches sides more often than Hulk Hogan. 

But I must point out the good as well with the bad. The Fight with Edge battling the two fiends was totally different for me this time. The start of the game with the bomb ring incident hit differently. There is some good character development for Cecil, but after being forced to level up the useless temporary party members, surprise! Back to level 1... Thank goodness for the exp. Boost from the pixel remaster version... 

Someone described Final Fantasy IV as a D&D session where the DM came unprepared and had to rewrite the story every 5 minutes because of rotating players gimmick.

In any case, I have to beat this game and take it off the list... also forget about it for a few years and revisit it.

Update:

I made Zeromus my bitch. All I needed to do was NOT use Rydia as a summoner but instead as Item healer. Put Rosa as a full time healer, have Edge the pedo throw all the shuriken and kitchen knife, while Kain jumped and Cecil hit Zeromus with the Ragnarok. 

Also, the ending suckes donkey balls. No wonder they had to make The After Years, which aren't available outside the PSP.