Restating that folks that view a 30-60 hour game through “the final boss is bullshit” is weird weird thing and gives plenty of cause for reflection.
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Starting around the release of VIIR last year, I realized I’d only actually played III, VI, VII, and VIII all the way through and decided I was gonna try to play all the Final Fantasy games. I’m like 3 hours into FFIV now.
What follows is a copy-paste of my loose ranking of Final Fantasy games from a Google Doc where I’m keeping track of my RPG plans/playthroughs. Looking at this, I feel like I’m looking at a shitpost, but I actually think this is more or less what I think? Like, maybe I’d swap XV and VII.
VI
XV
VII
Lightning Returns
Crisis Core
VIIR
XIII
XIII-2
I (Dawn of Souls)
III (DS)
IX
X
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What did you get out of CC outside of more FF7 lore? I’ve been meaning to replay it but remember it just being extreme mellodrama that almost pulls itself out in the last 20 minutes.
But also it is a story we already know so we have to introduce and tie-up and new story elements and explain why other party members are there.
I would have a much better understanding of the pachislot battle system nowz
Dissidia 012, 1 gba, 4, 7, 5, 2, Ehrgeiz, 3, Ehrgeiz Brand New Quest, what little ive played of 12, 9, 6
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12
3
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I don’t think anyone who has spoken up about ff7r dismiss the game for having a shitty final chapter, so much as most of us have said “this is cool until the final chapter takes a nosedive”
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Huh? No it wasn’t talking specifically about any one game just the concept.
oh hell yeah this is that shit brother
Zack, I think, ends up being his own compelling character and the machinations of a plot that’s bigger than him and is moving him, as the audience knows, to his inevitable death are a fascinating device. I thought that the game played with this interestingly and movingly, and it ends up drawing out some pretty interesting themes about life, living, and death in some interesting ways.
When i think back on the game, there is some definite prequel idiocy (some of which is straight-up embarrassing, like the guy who’s building a bar in sector 7 and imagines a girl behind the counter with a big chest), and some of the lore sprawl is meh and good lord does the voice acting (in the English version anyway) suck shit. And saying all that makes me wonder if I’m overrating it in my list. But also, I kinda really love it.
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I have never technically ‘completed’ Lightning Returns because the final boss is wildly difficult and I literally spent like 10 hours trying to beat it. But damn, I really like the rest of the game, so I really like the game as a whole.
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Galdarn it! - Bring back Bartz, will ya!?
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Damn. Before looking at the wiki page I browsed through the tracks and was like, I recognize some of these right out the gate - they’re from other arrange albums that I own. So the mystery is not solved; I ask, what arrange album is Songo de Chocobo from? And it’s from none. “Previously unreleased”… who recorded it, and when, and under what circumstances? This Latin jam will forever remain a mystery…
would struggle to listpost final fantasy
super play convinced me 6 was the greatest thing ever years before i could even play it and had the ideal ‘got it for christmas aged 12’ experience with 7
as an old i’ve really started to appreciate 5 more!!! using a chemist to make shinryu level 255 so it can be killed with level 5 death is very much my kind of shit + it’s about as blue skies as final fantasy ever got until i drove around in circles listening to the jenova theme in 15
naively hoping they fix the font in those pixel remasters, famicom ff3 with some qol fixes and a lower encounter rate… nice…
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5, tactics, 8, 12 and 13 are all a good time, and i respect 11 even if i’ll probably never play it
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xi is one of the best experiences i’ve ever had in video games. i will be making a big thread about it in 2-3 years
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I also noticed that when I first chased down the origin album. Ken Morimura is credited as the arranger of that particular song, from the album notes on its VGMdb page. The reliability of that information, what little is even provided, is anyone’s guess!
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I had a friend play the opening area of Xenogears yesterday and how was I never bothered by the game pausing for almost five whole seconds before and after you bring up the pause menu.
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No game has made me more aware of my own mortality than Xenogears. Not cuz of its writing or mechanics or anything, but cuz it wastes so much of your fucking time. Pretty sure I crossed the hikikomori Rubicon when I continued playing that turd even though I was fully aware of how little respect it had for the player. Regrets.
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It was written for V but Mambo de Chocobo wound up being used, instead. Most likely, the track was arranged for F.F. Mix (released the same day as 1987 - 1994, Ken Morimura contributed arrangements to both albums), but was left off since they already had a (Latin-sounding) Chocobo track on it (Mambo de Chocobo).
From the Final Fantasy N Generation album:
Can’t find a clean scan of the rear of that album, but it does explicitly state it was for FF5.