Final Fantasy IV - I finally beat one!

I have known of Final Fantasy for ages now. It was one of the first franchises I discovered by myself, outside the usual Nintendo games, FIFA or Halo. I remember learning about RPGs and figuring out what turn based combat was, I thought that such a granular level of control over character actions would be kinda neat, although I ended up focusing a bit more on Pokemon. Downloading a ROM of Final Fantasy I & II for Game Boy Advance, to play on my HTC ChaChaCha and mapping its physical keys to control the game is quite the memory! But I died and died and died and I gave up on that first game. I was still too green, unfamiliar with what old games were like. Pokemon let me continue after dying, going back to a Pokecenter, but here? I could die and lose everything. I could only save from the world map, and I never bothered to learn how. Later I also realized that the first games on the franchises were rather punishing, and that FFIV is where they start to actually focus on a story too. I…