FF7 is laughably overrated.
The best Final Fantasy game is the one Final Fantasy game I played as a kid.
Any FF that uses real-time combat is not a real FF game. The series died with X.
Are those two separate, unrelated statements? XII and XIII both had turn based combat.
The first FF was the best game in the series. It was your party from start to finish. You could replay with different class make-ups. They didn’t close off parts of the map as you progressed through the story and dump in characters or take them away as events unfolded. And, you could level 4 black belts to 50 and one shot Chaos with crazy 24 hit combos.
The only one with a truly open world and map. Fight me.
- Final Fantasy II was a great game.
- Final Fantasy XII is my favourite.
- HEAVENSWARD was the worst XIV expansion and made me quit. Only came back after Stormblood was basically over, but enjoyed it in comparison.
- Final Fantasy XIII is the best one in that failed trilogy and my second favourite mainline game.
- Final Fantasy IV is boring and worst mainline game.
- Final Fantasy VII-R sucks and shouldn’t exist.
- Zenos did nothing wrong and should come back.
Heavensward is only considered good nowadays because most people only played the story and didn’t interact with all the crap you had at endgame back then.
I gave FFXIII some flak back in the day, but I really did like it. Heck, it has one of my favorite casts. I’m a Snow enjoyer. However, it all went to hell when they made two sequels (with very different setting/theme tone) and decided to keep reusing the lore that people complained about in other games.
Also, I salute you for your courage at saying anything remotely negative about VIIR.
I just don’t understand how you got through A Realm Reborn.
You’re out here to make enemies.
Great list but what
Zenos did nothing wrong and should come back.
All Final Fantasy games have bad writing and cringe inducing dialogues. Which was fine when the games had no voice audio, but I just can’t stand it in the modern FF with voice overs. Square Enix really needs to hire competent writers that aren’t solely influenced by manga.
The only good one was 7.
Aeris
Lightning Returns is a great game.
I mean, it should have been called Second Strike for one thing.
FFXIII was best on its own and should not have been a trilogy, but agreed.
Final Fantasy 2 (actual 2 not the one with Cecil) is way underrated. Its got a dialogue system like Morrowind, skills that get better as you use them, a fantastic villian, and great story beats. Its also the first game to have Cid. Also also people love FF for the mix of fantasy and tech and 2 is the first game to really embrace that theme. 1 has a one off robot and the airship, but 2 really shows the empire abusing technology to retain power.
SPOILERS SPOILERS [people love 6 because the world gets messed up, but 2 did it first with the empire destroying several cities] END OF SPOILERS
And you have talking beavers and I think thats great.
The music is also great! I think people hate it because they try and min-max the combat and not just enjoy it for what it is.
I enjoyed it more after I played SaGa, felt like an earlier version of that idea, really underrated, the only people that really have genuine hate are probably japanese since it was quite bugged at release, but westerners played the mobile or psp ports of it that are fixed, it’s a good game.
I had to scroll a bit but I found a fellow cultured fellow. I have FF2 on multiple platforms and not only do I agree with everything you said, but it makes me very sad that its system never got to be developed further in FF games. I love replaying it because I can focus on different play styles each time. Beyond some moments of grinding (like getting certain spells to drop or leveling select spells) the game/story is short and sweet. Also, one of the things I love so very, very much about FF2 (and 3 for this reason): so many enemies in one battle. I love prioritizing enemies or just AOEing, sometimes unloading just to survive or being very methodical so to conserve spells/MPs (depending on the version). Lastly, I love how good support is: control, buffing, debuffing - it’s all solid. If I hated anything, I’d say that some versions has odd status healing/preventing.
6 is the best one and all PS1 games in the series are over-rated.
FF9 had better characters and story than FF7
FF8 was underrated and deserved better
100%
My problems with IX are slow combat. My problems with VII are everything else.
The real combat is handling the hours of screen swirls and camera flying uselessly around the battlefield along the way. Otherwise, it would be a fantastic game.
agreed; this doesn’t mean i hate 7 though (it’s only of my favourites); i just think the emotional depth and growth of the ff9 cast - both antagonists and protagonists - is that good.
plus freya is probably the best character in ff history
The games are soundtrack simulators. Nobuo Uetmastu is heart and soul of the series. The rest is just packaging for it.
Jobs and materia are fun to play around with though.
It really is a core part of the vibes and tone of the series. Even the ones with no story to speak of and/or bad old turn-based gameplay had the good music, design, etc.
Well that certainly is a hot take.
Soken is good, idk about this other guy though.
FF7 was Square Enix’s peak.
SquareSoft* Please don’t involve Enix in this. The FF franchise died because of them.
Emet-Selch isn’t hot. Y’all just have shitty taste in men.
Romanticising his pain over losing Amaurot and those he loved. You know, even though he played a part in sacrificing Amaurot and its citizens, and the untold damage he’d done since with his machinations, never mind part played in the Seven and further attempted Calamities/Rejoinings. But yeah, knock-off Captain Ardyn Sparrow is hot.
VIII > VII
I don’t know if I’d quite go that far, but VIII is hella underrated.
100%!
I haven’t played all of them, but I am still obsessed with VIII. I don’t think I have played an RPG more than that game. Closest is probably Baldur’s Gate 3, but I have a long way to go still. I could never bring myself to play a game more than once, if I finished it at all, and that was the first RPG as a kid, and as an adult, I had the patience to sit and play all the way through and then some.
Mobius Final Fantasy existed.