Final Fantasy Megathread

[PSVitaForever]

First memory: I didn't have a ps1 and I saw ads for this game in a shop... I thought it was wonderful, so nice medieval-like images and those strange characters...

Years later... I played it first time on emulator on pc, but didn't get far; when I bought a ps2 I bought a physical copy of ff9, but there were problems with second disc when changing, so I gave up.

BUT, when I bought a psp, I bought ff9 digital on a sale and I've been finally able to play from start to finish and I totally LOVED it.

Let me share this to honour the game:

 

[Zarathusta]

Just beat the final fantasy 2 pixel remaster pretty fun though the dungeon design is so awful.
It really got me interested in the saga series because of the levelling system.
Next up is the 3 pixel remaster and then the 3d remake.

 

[OPT1MUS]

Oh maaan... I LOVED this game! It also made me cry.
Awesome, there's nothing more to say: It will always be in my heart.

 

[Darzhgrod]

If you want your fantasies finaled, 9 is tippy-top tier. It has peak moogle representation. When I want a moogle, I reach for a Final Fantasy IX.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi Dr.Kisaragi]

The only mainline that I want to play is FF V and FFXIII

(I don't play 11 and 14 15 and 16)

(The rest I already beat it)

 

[Zarathusta]

The only mainline that I want to play is FF V and FFXIII

(I don't play 11 and 14 15 and 16)

(The rest I already beat it)

You should play 5 for sure!

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Building up my Steam Summer Sale cart and I heard somethings about FFXVI that makes disappointed if this the series' new direction and I'm not that interested in FFI's remake bur I could pick that up or Crisis Core. Need help in choosing or maybe I should look for indies and give up on FF and just buy up the FFT remake for nostalgia hits.

 

[MasterEn]

Building up my Steam Summer Sale cart and I heard somethings about FFXVI that makes disappointed if this the series' new direction and I'm not that interested in FFI's remake bur I could pick that up or Crisis Core. Need help in choosing or maybe I should look for indies and give up on FF and just buy up the FFT remake for nostalgia hits.

i've heard of ff16 being called "anime game of thrones". it is supposed to be more action based than previous instalments.
by ff1 remake, do you mean 'stranger of paradise'? if so, that's not a remake, it's a prequel of sorts to the first game. it pales in comparison to dissidia final fantasy in terms of being a prequel to the start of the franchise; so just play dissidia and 012 dissidia instead of that.
crisis core is the only good part of the ff7 series.
there's also plenty of hacks of the first 6 ff games, including some that add tons of extra content like ff4 ultima and some that tell their own stories like ff4 unprecedented crisis and there are several of those for ff6.

 

[Strategist Strategist]

I got Hollow Knight and Alan Wake on sale, really cheap. I have waaay too many games to play to care about bad Final Fantasies. Once they start making FF RPGs again, maybe I'll give them another chance.

Crisis Core is alright, but you can download the PSP version here, not sure why you'd want to spend money on it.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

i've heard of ff16 being called "anime game of thrones". it is supposed to be more action based than previous instalments.
by ff1 remake, do you mean 'stranger of paradise'? if so, that's not a remake, it's a prequel of sorts to the first game. it pales in comparison to dissidia final fantasy in terms of being a prequel to the start of the franchise; so just play dissidia and 012 dissidia instead of that.
crisis core is the only good part of the ff7 series.
there's also plenty of hacks of the first 6 ff games, including some that add tons of extra content like ff4 ultima and some that tell their own stories like ff4 unprecedented crisis and there are several of those for ff6.

A prequel to the FFI? Well that's a bit more interesting. Yeah Anime GOT might be a mild term if they paid a bit more attention to the political intrigue but to me it reminded me of FFXIII but with the inclusion of towns which didn't warrant me to bypass the story flags I got from reviews. I'm putting stuff usually not my fair in my cart but the call of an RPG is too hard to ignore and Crisis Core I know isn't my flavor and just wanted to know if I should have given any the last FF titles a chance this sale or just look for an indie to fill the scratch.

 

[MasterEn]

A prequel to the FFI? Well that's a bit more interesting. Yeah Anime GOT might be a mild term if they paid a bit more attention to the political intrigue but to me it reminded me of FFXIII but with the inclusion of towns which didn't warrant me to bypass the story flags I got from reviews. I'm putting stuff usually not my fair in my cart but the call of an RPG is too hard to ignore and Crisis Core I know isn't my flavor and just wanted to know if I should have given any the last FF titles a chance this sale or just look for an indie to fill the scratch.

yeah, crisis core is more of an action rpg. it's probably one of the better attempts of mixing real time and turn base together.
yeah, stranger of paradise is a prequel. you play as a man named jack. jack garland. the game seemed to have been rushed since it has a lot of environments based off of nearly every game in the series, but you move around a menu map with the world map in the background. you read textboxes with random names of npcs that were planned to be in the game. they're not; not sure what happened, but that's what they did. probably ran out of time most likely. it was most likely going to be open world and you would traverse a myriad of locations basically turning the world of ff1 into a final fantasy patchwork quilt.
i don't know much about 16, so; it could be good for all i know. if someone else has played the game, they can give you a better overview of the game without spoiling it.
starting with ff13, the games have increasingly become more and more cinematic spectacle flair and less about rpg stuff. and old games like ff7 aren't immune to that either; as seen with the reimagining games.
i'd check out some reviews of the games and go from there.

 

[Pjira]

Freya is best girl

Truth, I wish the game didn't forget about her halfway through the story.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

A lot of people will hate me for saying this but I’ll say it anyway.
Final Fantasy IX is the peak game for the series on the PS1.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Truth, I wish the game didn't forget about her halfway through the story.

I said this earlier in the thread and was directly told that, going off what we know about the production pipeline Square had at the time, it seems that much of the story for IX’s later half wasn’t finished.

Makes sense. I always felt that the game was lopsided to the start and the second half is full of things just… kinda… happening?

It’s sad to think that, possibly, there’s a world where IX got the breathing room it needed in development and we got a story that incorporates the full cast far better. But forgetting cool cast members is somewhat of a staple for FF, isn’t it?

 

[Mopeybloke]

A lot of people will hate me for saying this but I’ll say it anyway.
Final Fantasy IX is the peak game for the series on the PS1.

 

[Lena CE]

Skimming this thread definitely gave me motivation to go back and finish FF9 sometime before the year ends. I enjoyed most of what I had played but the person I ended up breaking up with the person I was playing through it with around the end of disc 2 or the beginning of disc 3 (whenever Brahne fails to defeat Kuja) and I just never got around to finishing it.

Gonna be a lot of fun revisiting it since it's been a few years and my memory will have faded just enough for it to mostly feel like a fresh playthrough :D

 

[sun0wl]

I said this earlier in the thread and was directly told that, going off what we know about the production pipeline Square had at the time, it seems that much of the story for IX’s later half wasn’t finished.

Makes sense. I always felt that the game was lopsided to the start and the second half is full of things just… kinda… happening?

It’s sad to think that, possibly, there’s a world where IX got the breathing room it needed in development and we got a story that incorporates the full cast far better. But forgetting cool cast members is somewhat of a staple for FF, isn’t it?

This sums it up quite nicely. Most of the few discs are a masterclass in pacing and plotting, but the end is just an avalanche of literal existential crises lol.

On that note I finally beat FFIX today...Feels sad to finally bring the story to an end but I wanted to finish it and start another playthrough to relieve the beginning again. What a fantastic game.

Side note, it was so interesting to watch the credits and see all the non-Japanese team members. Being mostly made in Hawaii made the game really unique for more than one reason.

If you want your fantasies finaled, 9 is tippy-top tier. It has peak moogle representation. When I want a moogle, I reach for a Final Fantasy IX.

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100%, I could watch moogles in this game take out and throw down that save book on loop lol. Their sound effect is beautiful, too. It's definitely my fave moogle design. I really want the keychain. Hoping they bring out more FFIX moogle merch for the anniversary.

 

[Deleted member 797290]

Yeah I know this game For me it's a kind of small remake of the best role-playing game of all time. And I also think it's good that Sephiroth's story is told.

 

[Tronky.it]

Forse uno dei migliori Final Fantasy mai fatti insieme al VII e al X (che sto giocando solo recentemente), uno dei pochi giochi che è riuscito a farmi emozionare quasi (davvero quasi) alle lacrime per il finale, e un ottimo gameplay che va a sostituire quella cacata di Junction System introdotta con l'ottavo capitolo.

Ho comprato questa settimana a 7 euro la versione Steam dopo l'ultima volta che completai il gioco per PS1 nel 2020-2021. Giocare con la modalità turbo x5 era veramente assurdo e fastidioso. Poi scoprii Memoria Mod Manager, e... accidenti, mi ha salvato la vita oltre che migliorarla del tutto!

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Perhaps one of the best Final Fantasy ever made along with VII and X (which I'm playing only recently), one of the few games that managed to make me almost (really almost) moved to tears for the ending, and an excellent gameplay that replaces that crappy Junction System introduced with the eighth chapter.

I bought the Steam version this week for 7 euros after the last time I completed the game for PS1 in 2020-2021. Playing with the x5 turbo mode was truly absurd and annoying. Then I discovered Memoria Mod Manager, and... damn, it saved my life as well as improving it completely!

 

[YourWishes]

Going through my third playthrough currently with some newcomers, holds up and is both a classic and a great mid-era FF game. Friends enjoy the character building, especially Steiner

 

[MasterEn]

Skimming this thread definitely gave me motivation to go back and finish FF9 sometime before the year ends. I enjoyed most of what I had played but the person I ended up breaking up with the person I was playing through it with around the end of disc 2 or the beginning of disc 3 (whenever Brahne fails to defeat Kuja) and I just never got around to finishing it.

Gonna be a lot of fun revisiting it since it's been a few years and my memory will have faded just enough for it to mostly feel like a fresh playthrough :D

that's the end of disc 2. so you were just at the halfway point.
memories are an important theme in the game. there needed to be just one extra point or place to highlight that and the final dungeon would be more impactful overall.

 

[pingugaming]

final fantasy IX will stay with me till the very end. it was the first time that i felt truly invested in the stories of a ragtag group of characters. they didn't feel like the average "we are the perfect heroes for the job" tropes that you see often in fantasy stories. they all had their own demons to deal with and goddamn, the entire vivi story made me cry so hard that to this very day, that lil guy is still my favorite rpg character ever. what started as a lighthearted and goofy adventure about "kidnapping" a princess from a tyrannical queen turned into something that changed me as a person. so thank you FF IX, from the bottom of my heart

 

[Deleted member 598440]

Happy 25th anniversary to it. Still haven't forgotten you Vivi

 

[χKai]

I started playing IX again the other day.
Stopped when I got to the Jump Rope minigame because I wanted to see what items I could get.

I never 100%'d IX, so I kinda wanted to go back and do that.. I don't think I'll be able to get that Excalibur 2, though.

The last two times I played through with someone else, each of whom was a girlfriend I had back then. With each of these playthroughs, we had gotten through the game and all the way to Trance Kuja. Each time I wanted to go to bed in real life and beat the game after I woke up. Each time, the other girl decided to switch to 1P and beat the game without me.

I had beaten the game before that by myself, but how the hell does this happen

 

[MasterEn]

I never 100%'d IX, so I kinda wanted to go back and do that.. I don't think I'll be able to get that Excalibur 2, though.

you need to get to the end of the game in under 12 hours to get Excalibur 2 and from what i remember, it really isn't worth it. and i think the only way to do that was to open the disc drive whenever possible to skip loading fmvs or something.