The Final Fantasy Thread

[NothPrime]

I fuckin love Final Fantasy, don't you? It's a great series where the very worst games in the main numbered entries are "just fine." And also Final Fantasy XIII. I just finished that for the first time and it turned out to be exactly as good as everyone said it was. Which is not very. At all. This game kind of sucks. The story is a mess and the gameplay is mostly automated, but the Crystarium triggers the primal "number go up" part of RPGs.

The others really are stupidly good. Final Fantasy IV, VII, XIV, and XVI are personal favorites and all rule.

 

[Rosie]

I've at least tried every single mainline game in the series except for XI, and I've beaten IV through VIII, which are all great games.

I also recently beat Mystic Quest, which wears on you pretty quickly no matter how cool the soundtrack is and how cozy the graphics are. It's a pretty braindead game where the only difficulty actually comes from how oversimplified it is, because it gives you no options to deal with any actually challenging opposition that might pop up. Kinda like XIII really...

 

[GavinMcWario]

I really need to get around to actually playing more mainline Final Fantasy games at some point - the only ones I've played are X and XIV, and I haven't finished the main story for either yet.

 

[DBomb]

I have played them all. I've made it no secret that FF2 was one of my most-hated games EVER, and it has since been outsucked by 13. 4 isn't just my favorite FF, it's my favorite game period (Again, I have made NO secret of this)

As far as spinoffs, I've played Mystic Quest, World of Final Fantasy, and the renamed series that came out here as Final Fantasy: SaGa and Seiken Densetsu. I own a Crystal Chronicles game that i've never played, which I should take care of at some point.

I would like to play a Theatrhythm game, and I've never touched Dissidia in any form.

 

[Rosie]

I've said this a lot recently, but for posterity: I think FF13 is terrible not just because it sucks as a play experience, but because it is trying to coast off the Final Fantasy brand while simultaneously being ashamed of being an RPG, which informs a lot of its terrible choices. This makes me not respect the game, so it is the worst mainline FF to me by default. (And even including the franchise as a whole, I think only the FF7 Reheat games beat it by being that curious kind of "anti-art" in the vein of Rise of Skywalker.)

As far as spinoffs, I've played Mystic Quest, World of Final Fantasy, and the renamed series that came out here as Final Fantasy: SaGa and Seiken Densetsu. I own a Crystal Chronicles game that i've never played, which I should take care of at some point.

I would like to play a Theatrhythm game, and I've never touched Dissidia in any form.

I need to play WoFF properly; I got it a very long time ago and just got horribly distracted from it, a terrible fate that happens to a lot of actually good games in my collection.

I highly recommend Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. It does get very grindy if you're trying to get everything, but as a casual experience it's a wonderful trip through the musical history of FF, and the DLC goes ham with the amount of other Square RPGs get represented.

 

[GavinMcWario]

I highly recommend Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. It does get very grindy if you're trying to get everything, but as a casual experience it's a wonderful trip through the musical history of FF, and the DLC goes ham with the amount of other Square RPGs get represented.

Seconded. I'm pretty sure I've played all the Theatrhythm games at some point or another and they're all super fun, but even if Final Bar Line hadn't already secured its spot as the best one by having the most content and the most polished mechanics, it would've automatically snagged the top spot for having the Steel Titan theme from Live A Live as DLC.

 

[DBomb]

I've said this a lot recently, but for posterity: I think FF13 is terrible not just because it sucks as a play experience, but because it is trying to coast off the Final Fantasy brand while simultaneously being ashamed of being an RPG, which informs a lot of its terrible choices. This makes me not respect the game, so it is the worst mainline FF to me by default. (And even including the franchise as a whole, I think only the FF7 Reheat games beat it by being that curious kind of "anti-art" in the vein of Rise of Skywalker.)



I need to play WoFF properly; I got it a very long time ago and just got horribly distracted from it, a terrible fate that happens to a lot of actually good games in my collection.

I highly recommend Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. It does get very grindy if you're trying to get everything, but as a casual experience it's a wonderful trip through the musical history of FF, and the DLC goes ham with the amount of other Square RPGs get represented.

FF13 is just an all-around bad time. I haven't typically LOVED Final Fantasy since 9, but like with Mystic Quest, I would much rather play 10 and 12 a hundred times before touching this steaming turd of a game. Even looking at it fills me with a sort of dread.


I do hope you'll forgive me as I've long since forgotten how to separate parts of the post I'm quoting, but anyway... WoFF is a very fun game. It's what you might imagine a psuedo-Pokemon-style FF would be like. You catch monsters, you evolve monsters. Fun stuff. Making stacks is surprisingly fun as well. Mixing and matching monsters (or Mirages as they're known) for both Lilkin and Jiant Lann and Reynn (Whose forms you can switch between on the fly, with neither really having an advantage over the other in combat) is surprisingly addictive.

I kinda laughed when I first saw Theatrhythm previewed and I have long since regretted it because it looks fantastic. I just worry about how I'll do with such a game because I'm pretty bad at rhythm games in general.

Ooh, other Square RPGs? Any Rudra no Hihou, by chance? Because that's one of my favorite non-FF Square RPGs and I wish they would finally officially port it over here in some fashion.


I'd be genuinely surprised at the Live-a-Live shoutout if not for the remake coming out, but it's still awesome.