BoF4's a pretty typical mid tier RPG. Most of it's fairly similar to 3, but it has more direction to it and while it's a bit padded out near the end it isn't quite as bad as BoF3 constantly kicking you in the balls (going through all that BS to fix the lighthouse to get a boat, only to force you to walk to your destination anyway, all the BS about making sushi and reprogramming the boat to take you across the sea only for the first thing that happens to you when you get there is being teleported back to the mainland for more filler events/dungeons, purposely giving you incorrect directions for crossing the Desert of Death, etc.). The characters are kinda on the bad side but the story is pretty good for the most part with a few pretty unsettling/disturbing scenes and it has one of the most despicable villains ever.
It got hit a bit hard with censorship though. I can understand toning down the violence in one scene a bit to keep the rating down, but some of it's just weird. Namely changing one character from joining the party because he's too drunk to be aware of his surroundings to being too timid to speak up against the rest of the party.
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The only certain death in the universe is Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons.
Not changing this line until I beat Seven Heroes (2/24/07)