Final Fantasy 7, I’m not a fan boy. I did not even like Cloud as an arrogant bad ass, but when his memories started to shift and he Broke. Suddenly I liked him allot, Suddenly he was a bad ass, even more so since he no longer realized he was or for the fact that he had all the wrong reasons to believe so in the first place. The jump from Super Nintendo to Playstation made the music capable of deeper sound quality, and the game does not fail you. Here the first really cool FF cutscenes were introduced and I still want that damn bike!
Final Fantasy 1, This is the game that started it all and for me whenever anything has a long legacy it is worth the time to see how it all began. Even as humble a beginning as this you can see all most all the ground work for classes, enemies and even story line development in relation to villains being set. A good portion of the music in the series we love today evolved from these primitive tones.
Final Fantasy 12, Gambits are awesome. The play system made me think over and over again that if FF11 was more like this I’d have loved the game. I did not like how they brought back the grid system and tried to trick us into thinking it was something new by making it look like the periodic table of elements. Oh looks like I just learned Oxygen, wait it was Reflectga? The License system has many flaws, but the game is abnormally fun and I’m not even sure why I liked it so much.
This is the divider line, above this are games I loved, below… well I managed to beat most of them, which Implies that I enjoyed them, even though I’m going to complain allot after this.
Kingdom Hearts, not strictly an FF, but definitely not not FF (I love double negatives). To be honest mostly I loves the music and the gummi ships. I found the odd combination of Disney and Final Fantasy disturbing (happy endings meets the series where the whole world ends halfway through a game). Even with the surreal it had a decent story and solid game play.
Chrono Cross, The illusive sequel to Chrono Trigger. I loved this game all the way tel the end. The fact that you have to beat the last boss with a special combo of spells to get an ending really sucks, what if a player did not go on all the side quests or even if they did it was not very specific that it was for the last boss. I mean come on NO ending but a girl leaning on a chain link fence, what the hell? I can understand having to do that to get a special better ending, but over all that turned the game into an equivalent of Rampage for me. Some of my favorite music and characters designs riddle this disappointing game.
Final Fantasy 8, An overly complex and entirely pointless GF and Draw system made this game way too easy. I’d almost go so far as to say if you ever actually cast a spell you were an idiot. Why cast ultima when having it junctioned to a stat made your attack do max damage?.. more then casting it would do. Despite this the game still has some of the best cutscenes from any game I’ve ever played, sweet summons (giant Cactuar? Doom Train, Gilgamesh, Ect) and intriguing characters, until muppet baby syndrome takes place and you realize the world has exactly twenty characters who are all tied to an orphanage, oh and they all forgot about it. If you are illiterate, Play this game it will be your Favorite FF (Sarcasm included I’m well aware those who can’t read can’t read this).
Kingdom Hearts II, In a long line of Square and or SquarEnix making sequels, that is all this game was. There is nothing wrong with this game, but just being a sequel does not make a game great, or even good. Great music, graphics, nice obvious twist on first into a continuation, etc… blah blah.
Final Fantasy X-2, Tidus is gone. In real life people die and others have to move on, but that is sad and tragic. No matter how happy you try to make it, playing a game about a girl trying to get over her dead boy friend while constantly finding glimmers of false hope that he’s still alive is terrible. Lets all play who can eat the most rainbow colored razor blades, yeah fun! The skimpy outfits are a plus that will get a-typical FF type people to play. And actually other then what I complained about already, this is a very solid fun game with extremely cheerful music.
Final Fantasy 5, I never beat this game. Just could not hold my attention. I love the job system. From what I have read I have only one huge dungeon left to beat this game. I wonder if I ever will?
Final Fantasy 3, Allot like five. The game just got to me way to late in my life. I’m busy and through no fault of the game itself I have no real interest in finishing it, but unlike five I don’t even remember very much about it.
Final Fantasy 2, How did any more sequels get made after this? I never beat five, but I did beat this, I’m sad with myself. The series was still young and I’m glade it worked out some major problems by dropping them after this game.
Final Fantasy Dirge of Cerberus, or am I playing watered down Devil May cry? Square I’m glade your trying to expand your industry out of strict turn based RPG’s, but please don’t do it with well established cornerstone series known for being RPG’s. Vincent is pretty cool. Also was it just me or did this actually create plot holes in the original FF7, that were nicely wrapped up before?
Final Fantasy 11, Ok so getting into a team of real players is a benefit of MMORPG’s, but it should NEVER be the only option. With a story line that falls into a category much closer to a lame attempt at a console game forced into an MMO. Square would have been much better off just Importing FF5’s or FFT’s job systems and just dumped popular characters from former FF games into famous FF locations that would not even make sense into the same world. This seems to be a game you either loved or hated, well I hated it.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, if you only count games with Final Fantasy in the title the original Tactics is my second favorite, how can this be my second to last favorite? The story seems to come straight out of the mind of a lobotomized kindergartner “I want liv in Vid-E-O gam. Me Luv Moogies!”. That can be overlooked with cool characters and tons of cool items, Hell I love moogles! Battles unlike the first game have random LAWS. The game hated me, might be fun for you, but every battle I was stuck with “can’t attack chocobos” or the like and an enemy group of chocobos. It also gets a nock further down the list then it would simply because I don’t like handhelds.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Is this an FF game? Seriously? WTF?
