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I played all the mainline ones up to 12 and I kinda lost interest in the series after that. I also played tactics, crisis core and when I was a wean I played the legends series.
I used to love 7 like everyone else and it's still somewhat nostalgic for me but not enough to warrant me playing the remake. 9 is my favorite and 6 after that. They both have incredible scores. They also dont follow the "I'm such an edgey loner, stay away from me but way I've learned I can do anything with my friends!" shit that was so popular in the 90s (4, 7, 8).
A lot of people like 10 but I see it as the first in the major shift away from what the series was and it has enough features from the new style that I didn't care for it as much. And can't really speak to much on the newer ones after that, when 13 came out I watched my roommate play a bit of it and didn't care for what I saw.
Tactics is also really good and probably imo has the most appealing story out of any of them, but it's a lot more grounded and not as weeaboo-ey so thats probably why I like it more.
They both have incredible scores.
Definitely, All the games he composed for have stunning soundtracks but 9 and 6 are just stellar outliers to me.
The game’s director is a big history buff, in his other Tactics game, Tactics Ogre iirc he based it on the Bosnian war and genocide.
That makes sense, I was gonna say the tactics game almost has more of a game of thrones feel than it does anime.
and yea the class war shit is definitely something I was vibin with, Ramza being a class traitor. I think he (or someone else) even has a line that's something about fines hurting the poor while the upper classes can just pay the fine and move on. And his brother, if I remember correctly, is a complete bougie cunt that's like "but why u care so much for the poors?!"
lol idk it's been ages since I played it but I definitely enjoyed the class struggle and politics of it.
Yeah, that line is pretty lit: https://i.imgur.com/I8mwcly.jpg
I haven't played FFT for a while because SE wants to port the game to every platform except for the PC, but I remember the game's third act feeling kind of phoned in compared to the rest of it.
I remember enjoying it pretty well through, but it's also been ages. I may go back and replay it when I get a chance.
Games as a medium seem to really have a problem sticking the landing. Sooooo many of them have completely underwhelming endings.
Does Kingdom Hearts count? I kid, but I have played the first one and it was just soul-crushingly difficult and grindy. I'm too lazy to learn how to emulate any of the playstation-era games.
FFVI is my favourite, followed by IX. VI is probably the easiest of the FInal Fantasies, but the music (Maria and Draco! The setpieces, the second act twist, the characters. It's all amazing.
IX is very clearly an Homage to VI. But it's a well made and very tightly plotted game on its own.
I love VIII and VII as well. X always rubbed me the wrong way.
If you haven't tried it, I really really recommend trying FFVI with the Brave New World mod. It fixes pretty much every problem that game has. Most importantly it makes each character more unique and useful.
Barret had a intellectual depth and character arc that made him one of the best written, if not the best written character contextually in the series to me, I just wish he Didn’t Fucking Talk Like That
lmao yeah Barret was constantly referred to as "that weird Mr. T communist" whenever my roommates would watch me play FF7R
I played all of the mainline single player ones back to back in the runup to 15, got the idea from a streamer i was watching at the time.
I had played most of them before, but it was fun to go through and beat them all
I also played 11 for a year or two and 14 for years, have only played a little bit of tactics, fire emblem was my thing at the time so i never really got into it.Top 5 single player ones for me:
- 6
- 8 (come at me)
- 12
- 9
- 10
I plan to give tactics a proper go, have had War of the Lions downloaded on my vita for months and just never got round to it lol
XI has a lot more of an old school mmo feel to it, so (at least when I played) you mostly set up in a spot and grind the same enemies over and over again lol
X-2 is my favourite. It is camp fun from start to finish. I love the sphere system(I love magical girl animes so henshin sequences are like crack to me) and I love all 3 women protaganists and how they mesh together. The Story is hot garbage though. VIII is my second favourite becuase I love women who use whips, gunblades are just cool and and Edea is a goddess and extremely camp.
I played FFX until I got to dad boss and my characters were too under leveled to beat him so instead of grinding for who knows how long I just quit the game.
I find it weird that FF7 had that because that game seems kinda easy although I've only gotten to Kalm and just haven't continued for no particular reason
I replayed FF VI early in the pandemic. It ended as FF playthroughs usually end for me, grinding XP for the final dungeon until i lose interest and quit the game.
I have no idea tbh, haven't played a new JRPG since FF VIII came out.
I played most of the mainline FF games Because my sister's a huge fan. I really loved Tactics; probably the most tightly plotted Jrpg's i've played: The tactical gameplay wasn't that bad either. i've always had the itch to emulate the tactics ogre games since.
Weird enough Yoshitaka Amano's art got me into drawing at a very young age, way before i owned a video game console. A public broadcast channel down here had small commercial breaks featuring many artists and illustrators, and one of them featured a lot of Amano's art. I think his work was one of the first things i searched when i gained internet access.
