Well I get you , I started with FF7 and after beating it I wanted to play the previous games before moving forward to 8 and 9 , I spent like 3 months playing 2d final fantasy where 4 out of 5 games had characters with moving legs while standing still I came up with a name for this I call it "retarded leg syndrome" just imagine getting into a shop and the owner is stretching his legs on the counter
This won't be solved until FF6 which has the best graphics of the 2d games , I went in with the mindset of "this will only get worse" each time I moved to the next game and it did it really did get worse since gameplay got more and more clunky , respect to square managing to create FF6 in 1994 which is 30 years old by now and held up pretty well gameplay didn't feel clunky at all and the various unique abilities from your ability to morph to edgar tools and sabin awesome blitz and cyan sword techniques help keep the game afloat , FF6 also is unique by not having separate models for characters in and outside combat save for kefka and the ghosts and few others.
Square seem to never be consistent with how they depict some characters you all know the cover art for FF1 its an icon of the series with its vibrant and lovely colors and cool armor of the light warrior well the warrior of the light depicted in it is.....the warrior in his knight form you can notice the horns worn by the knight similar to the horned helmet of the cover art , in FF2 art cover firion is depicted wearing a bandana the original game doesn't have him wearing one it won't be until later releases that he gets his bandana , in FF5 none of the cast look like their art , look at my epic PFP it features the tycoon sisters in their art depiction but they look nothing like it in game , faris isnt wearing some pirate armor nor is reina wearing a dress both are depicted with blonde hair well both in game are seen with pink/purple hair , galuf never had a beard in the artwork yet in the game he does the protagonist , the player the great warrior bartz is depicted with white hair and quite pale looking , he looks nothing like it in game he is brown haired.
Various art depicts terra with blonde hair yet in the game she always has green hair explain why????
One thing worth mentioning is character portraits always allow you to take a peek and a closer look at how characters look in the artist mind and how he wanted them to look that's a problem with 5 at least the PS1 version I played lacked any character portrait....
If you want more faithful depictions of characters similar to art take a look at the PS1 intro cinematics for 5/6 they really cooked with the intro for 6 I thought only blizzard could do peak cinematics well square seem to be able to do that too , one funny aspect in the origins version of FF2 the intro has firion wearing no bandana , square think its funny to keep stripping him of his bandana poor guy....warrior of the light is depicted in a faithful way to the art in FF1 intro.
But if you really want the best depictions look into the dissida games where each character is finally properly depicted similar to the artwork of the game they are from.
But that's the thing they bring a character from a 2d game place it into 3d have it resemble the art more than the game they are from like why not bring the entire 2d game into 3d....
I think square should remake all 2d games with 3d graphics especially 2 , 2 deserves some love man it started the chocobo and houses the first ever dragoon in the series.
I gotta say battles feel very engaging in 7 and 8 due to the enemy finally having animations and not being static.
but in-game terra wears red and purple if I remember right celes idk I still can't understand what she is wearing a big T shirt? A dress ? All I can tell is her shoulder pads
