New FFXV Details

Since everybody else is giving their own opinions...

FF1: It's certainly a classic, and still loads of fun. It's more fun in a grindy way than in a strategic way, but I still like it.

FF2: I never bothered finishing this one, but that was mostly because my brother deleted my file twice. I'll blame the circumstances rather than the game. I'll probably get around to this one eventually.

FF3: I felt the battle system here was poorly designed, the story was boring, and the music was good (being merely *good* is not a compliment for FF ). This is the only other one that I didn't finish. Admittedly, I've only played the DS version though.

FF4: This one is great! The first truly interesting story, and the introduction of the ATB battle system are great here. Some of the battle mechanics seem a bit clunky now, but I can't really blame them because this was the first game with the new system (Pretty much everything they fixed in The After Years, which I thought was pretty good for the nostalgia, is spot on too).

FF5: While the story had great individual moments, the overarching plot was dull overall. However, the battle system makes up for it in spades, being one of the best in the series. The job system was great this time around, doing a lot of things right that FF3 didn't.

FF6: I'll refrain from talking here, for obvious reasons.

FF7: While FF7 isn't my favorite Final Fantasy and I don't feel the hype entirely, I still think it's a good game. I'll be honest, while it does have flaws, it never felt gimmicky to me in any way shape or form. I'll admit that the graphics did feel a little like an experiment, but while playing I never felt like they were getting in the way of gameplay or story like many other games have fallen into the trap of. I also don't feel like the game was "about" the graphics either. Playing through in more recent years than my first playthrough, where I barely understood any of it, I've enjoyed the story quite a bit. Although I will say that Aeris' death is overhyped, there are other moments in the game which I found genuinely touching. And the gameplay is really solid too (I'll probably get around to doing a challenge in it eventually).

FF8: Meh. While there were some okay parts to the story, I found the majority of the characters to be annoying. That being said, that opinion is partly personal bias against romance stories, which I find pretty boring in general, and a large portion of the plot was centered around that. Going back and looking at the mechanics of most FF's tends to inspire me to want to play again, but with VIII it mostly just made me think, "Huh, it was really that broken all along?" That being said, I did enjoy the battle system the first time through. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't FF good.

FF9: While I've refrained from mentioning the music in most of the other entries to avoid repeating "This soundtrack is amazing" every time, this game game deserves a special mention for being probably my favorite soundtrack of all time. The story also kept me hooked and it is one of my favorites if not my favorite in the series. FF9's battle system is nothing particularly special necessarily, but still solid. It's my second favorite FF game, which goes to show that sometimes playing an FF game later doesn't always mean it's not as good as the ones you have nostalgia for.

FF10: This is a strange game, but I like it for what it was. The battle system was inventive but not really balanced between characters. The voice acting was bad, but not embarrassingly so IMO, and the overarching story was very interesting. It's worth playing again some day.

Anything later than that in the main series I haven't played. I'm not a fan of MMO's, because I prefer games that end. I'll get around to 12 one day.