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A RPG released in 1997, it caused the N64 to loose the console war. It was regarded as either the best game ever, or the most over-rated game. I personally feel it's a perfect game, but each to their own.
Final Fantasy VII> Final Fantasy VI.
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A great game. Mainly about the story.
My reviews are Graphics 8/10, Cinematic 10/10, Game Play 7/10, Music 10/10, Story 10/10. I will never forget about this game because of the story. I would rate this game 100/10 for the story; it's absolutely touching. I'm not a gay type but this game really made my cry a couple of times. This game is more like a movie than a game but if this game was a movie, this game would be like 150% better than Titanic. =D
This is your chance to change the spiral of death; this is the time where you control your destiny.-Auron.
Yuna, let's go to Zanarkand together, I can show you what blitzball is like over there!-Tidus
I must defeat Sin.-Yuna
Kimahri must protect Yuna.-Kimahri
Don't do it Yuna, don't sacrifice yourself to do the final summonning!-Rikku
I am the captain of the blitzaball team. Do you wanna join our team, bro?-Wakka
It's ok, Yuna. I'll be at your side as always.-Lulu
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RPG released by Square Enix on 2006 (2007 in Europe). Its main innovation is the battle system, which is most of times smooth. Enemies are actually in the map, there are no random battles. Players can also set up Gambits to automate characters' actions, thus saving a lot of manual work. To some people it feels like an offline MMORPG in some aspects, and the Gambit system might feel cheap for some. Just turn it off then, damn it.
The story of the game focuses on the war between the empires of Rozarria and Archadia. In the middle of these two empires stands the kingdom of Dalmasca, which features some city called Rabanastre in the middle of some desert. Another kingdom between these two empires is Nabradia, which is destroyed by Archadia at the start of the game under mysterious circumstances. Princess Ashe of Dalmasca is married to Lord Rasler of Nabradia, who gets killed in the war soon after the game starts, making Ashe a widow, and then orphan as the king of Rabanastre also dies when trying to sign a treaty, murdered by who was supposed to be a loyal soldier of their kingdom, Basch.
Princess Ashe fakes her death and then forms the insurgence (a word who Ashe hates and gets pissed off everytime she hears it; she is always correcting people, it's "the Resistance", damnit) against Archadia along with one of her captains, Vossler. Rabanastre falls in Archadia's hands while Ashe waits for the appropriate moment to take action, which means that she pretty much is getting a sunbath in some remote beach.
A few years after you're suddenly controlling this kid called Vaan who wants to be a sky pirate. He has a friend called Penelo, who pretty much is there. He enjoys killing rats for "training" and stealing stuff from Archadian soldiers patrolling the Rabanastre, so soon after the game starts, he breaks into Rabanastre's palace and steals some big glowing stone, who two actual sky pirates, Balthier and Fran (some tall bunny girl with huge ass) wanted to steal aswell. Then they have to flee the palace with the stone and along the way they find some girl called Amalia fighting alone against some soldiers.
Then they get caught and dropped into some jail who resembles a dungeon more than anything, but Amalia is not with them. They easily escape and along the way they encounter Basch bound to some chains inside some tiny cage. He's the traitor who killed Rabanastre's king in the past aswell as Vaan's brother, but he claims it was his twin brother who murdered them. Yeah, right. Pffft. But Balthier doesn't give a shit and they escape with him, a thing that Vaan doesn't like at all.
Then Penelo gets kidnapped by bounty hunters who are after Balthier, because her role is pretty much being there. They go to find her to some flying city, they end up in some huge ass airship where Penelo is and Amalia is held captive, who turns out to be Princess Ashe, and then they start finding out stuff to defeat the Archadian empire, which is led by Vayne, who killed his own father and seems to be obsessed about some weird shit involving some gods ruling over men's history, and he wants those gods to get the fuck off to control history himself.
The story has its moments but it doesn't have the same feeling other Final Fantasy games have. Arguably, it's not as complex, and there's no romantic involvements between the characters, despite the hints that Balthier and Fran like each other. Character development can be considered subtle.
It can also be very repetitive as there are enemies everywhere, and the distances you have to walk are extremely long in some cases.
Characters level up and can be developed with a License board who grants them right to wear certain equipment or use spells which otherwise wouldn't be able to even if you had them in your inventory.
There are many mixed feeling from gamers regarding this game. Some do not like the direction Final Fantasy is taking, others see it as fresh air. Whatever, if you buy this, it's one of those "rent first" games. A great game, yes, but not for everybody's tastes.
Final Fantasy XII cast:
Vaan: "I want to be a sky pirate!"
Balthier: "I'm the leading man!"
Fran: "I'm not a goddamn hippy!"
Basch: "I'm loyal to my kingdom despite all the shit they are throwing at me!"
Ashe: "I'm bossy and want everyone to do what I want because I'm the soon-to-be friggin' queen of Rabanastre, so I have these peeps behind my huge ass to get some stone thingies for me so I can use them against a huge ass empire which is far bigger than my lil ass Resistance. Yep, my plan rocks! It's not suicide at all!"
Penelo: "Hi, I'm Penelo"
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Belived by a great amount of gamers to be one of the best games ever made. Having a deep and involving storyline, dynamic charecters, and a awesome musical score, FF7 was largely responsible for raising RPGs to the level of popularity it has today.
Me: Final Fantasy VII melts your face off!
Flamer: I hate it, and Im mad because everyone else likes it.
Me: I can't hear you, your face is melted...
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The Best Final Fantasy game ever made. This is absolute fact and cannot be denied.
Final Fantasy VIII is teh great.
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uh oh! Final Fantasy VIII forces me to play it again and again without eating or sleeping.
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One of the best games in the Fantasy series. The story is fast-moving and the characters are really well-designed. The 2D graphics are done very well, unlike Final Fantsy VII, which was still good but the 3D was nasty.
Final Fantasy VI is a great game, it rivals Final Fantasy VII and the Chrono series!
("But what fun is it if no 'precious' lives are lost?" -Kefka)
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A game developed by Square (now Square Enix), revolving around the main character, Cecil. It is for the SNES, and is called Final Fantasy II in America.
Final Fantasy IV has a complex story. It starts out with Cecil, current captain of the Red Wings, stealing the Water Crystal from Mysidia. He murders several people. When he feels that he is doing wrong and asks the King why they are murdering people, he is demoted and sent to the Village of Mist, with his brother, Kain, to deliver a package. The entrance to Village Mist is guarded by a dragon, but they defeat it. When they get to Village Mist, they find out that the package is really a bomb. The package explodes, and many people that live in the town die. They find a young girl, named Rydia, who is standing next to her dead mother. Rydia's mother was connected to the dragon, and when they killed the dragon, they killed the mother. Rydia attacks Cecil and Kain with a titan, which severs the way back to Baron, the castle in which Cecil and Kain used to dwell, and knocks all three cold.
Cecil awakes, finds the girl injured, and does not know where Kain is. He takes her to an inn in Kaipo.
In the middle of the night, soldiers from Baron find Cecil and Rydia, and under their orders to kill all summoners, attack Rydia. Cecil kills the attackers. Rydia joins Cecial, impressed that he protected her.
Cecil finds his girlfriend, Rosa, in bed. She has desert fever and to heal her he needs to find the SandRuby. The SandRuby is located in Antlion's nest. The Kingdom of Damcyan is the only was to Antlion, so Rydia and Cecil travel there. On the way, they meet Tellah.
Tellah is a sage who is looking for his daughter, Anna. Anna eloped with the bard, Edward. Right when the three arrive at Damcyan, the red wings attack. Anna dies in the bombing. Tellah blames the death on Edward. Edward explains that Golbez is behind the attack and stole the Fire Crystal from Damcyan. Tellah seeks revenge against Golbez, and leaves the party. As a replacement, Edward joins. They find the SandRuby and cure Rosa. She joins the party.
They know that Golbez is after the crystals, so they travel to Fabul, where the wind crystal is kept. While going over Mt. Hobs (the way to Fabul), they find Yang, leader of the monks of Fabul. He is being ambushed by Golbez's monsters. Yang and the party fight them off. When the party informs Yang about the Red Wings and their plot, Yang wants the party to help defend the castle.
When the Red Wings attack, the party has to retreat to the crystal room. Cecil is confronted by Kain, and finds out the Golbez brainwashed him. Kain defeats Cecil in a duel. Golbez then arrives, and steals Rosa and the Wind Crystal.
The party decides that they need an airship to attack the Red Wings, so they sneak back into Baron and aquire an airship from Cid.
Yang then charters a ship to take Cecil, Edward, Rydia, and himself to Baron. While sailing, however, they are attacked by the sea monster Leviathan and the ship sinks.
Cecil awakens alone on a beach near Mysidia, where he is met by the town's wizards. They are mad at him for stealing the water crystal, earlier. The Mysidian elder sees that Cecil wants to fight Golbez, and tells him that he should become a paladin. He has to climb Mt. Ordeals to do so. White and black wizards Palom and Porom go with, to assist and spy on Cecil. On the mountain, they find Tellah, who is looking to find Meteo, to defeat Golbez. Golbez tries to stop the party by sending a demon (Milon), but the party defeats it. Cecil becomes a paladin and Tellah learns Meteo and several other spells.
They return to Mysidia, and the elder is impressed with Cecil. The elder lets Cecil use the "serpent path", which takes the party back to Baron. Cecil finds that Cid has been arrested and Yang has been brainwashed to follow the King of Baron. Cecil helps Yang recover, and they sneak into the castle. They find out that King Baron is actually Cagnazzo, demon of water. After defeating him, Cid is set free and take Cecil and party to the completed airship. Before dying, Cagnazzo causes the walls of the castle to move with the intent of crushing the party. Palom and Porom petrify themselves to halt the trap.
Cecil takes command of the airship and is met at takeoff by the brainwashed Kain, who demands Cecil retrieve the final Crystal in exchange for Rosa's life. Cecil heads for Troia, where the Earth Crystal is enshrined. He learns the Crystal was stolen by the Dark Elf, and his friends and he retrieve it. Kain leads the group to the Tower of Zot, where Rosa is imprisoned. At the tower's summit, Golbez takes the Crystal and attempts to flee. Tellah tries to kill Golbez by using Meteo. The spell kills Tellah and weakens Golbez, shattering his control over Kain's mind. Kain helps Cecil rescue Rosa and, after defeating the Fiend of Wind, Barbariccia, the party escapes to Baron.
In Baron, Kain tells them that there are four more crystals that Golbez is after, and they are located underground. Kain gives Cecil a magma key, which opens the way to the underground. They fly through the opening, but the airship is damaged while caught in a battle between the dwarves and the Red Wings. Cecil tells King Giott of the dwarves that he wants to defend the crystal. The king accepts. Cid goes away to repair the airship. soon after he leaves, Cecil, Rosa, Yang, and Kain discover Golbez has infiltrated the dwarves' crystal room and try to stop his theft of the Crystal. During the battle they are joined by Rydia, who was sucked into the Underworld by Leviathan. However, Golbez escapes with the Dwarves' Dark Crystal, and Cecil sets out to the Tower of Bab-il to retrieve the lost crystals. King Giott offers the services of his tanks to draw the fire of the tower's defenses while the party infiltrates it. While inside, the party confronts Golbez's servant Dr. Lugae. He informs the party that the crystals have been moved to the above ground portion of the Tower, and as his last act Dr. Lugae orders that the Tower's Super Cannon destroy the dwarf tanks. Yang volunteers to stay behind and destroy the Super Cannon while the party escapes, and is presumed dead.
Upon escaping the Tower the party is met by Cid and a repaired airship. They are pursued by the Red Wings and fly back to the upper world to escape them; Cid throws himself overboard and detonates a bomb to re-seal the passage, apparently sacrificing himself. Back on the surface, they find the path to the Tower of Bab-il's upper half. While following it they encounter Edge, the ninja prince of Eblan, who seeks revenge on Rubicant, the Fiend of Fire, for the death of his parents. Edge joins the party. Inside the tower, the party defeats Rubicant but falls through a trap door to an Underground portion of the Tower and finds an abandoned Red Wing airship. The party then goes to the Underworld's Sealed Cave to retrieve the eighth and final crystal before Golbez gets to it. After they do so, however, Golbez retakes control over Kain and forces him to steal the Crystal. Back at the Dwarf castle, Giott tells Cecil of the Lunar Whale, a "ship of light" designed to take travelers to and from the moon. Cid, who was found by the dwarves and nursed by them back to health, fits their airship with a drill and the party drills their way back to the surface. Cecil returns to Mysidia to pray for the Lunar Whale's appearance. It rises from the ocean, and Cecil, Rosa, Rydia, and Edge board it to travel to the moon.
Upon arriving on the moon, the party enters the Lunar Palace, and there the party meets an elderly man named FuSoYa who explains that Cecil's father is a heroic but deceased Lunarian. FuSoYa also explains that a Lunarian named Zemus plans to destroy life on "The Blue Planet" to let lunarians live there. To achieve this, Zemus manipulated Golbez and Kain to obtain the Crystals needed to revive a giant destructive android, the Giant of Bab-il. Meanwhile, on Earth, the forces of the world, including some characters (Yang, Palom, Porom) thought to have died, attack the unleashed Giant. FuSoYa, Cecil, Rosa, Rydia, and Edge enter and destroy the Giant. FuSoYa breaks Zemus' control over Golbez and Kain, and Cecil learns that Golbez is his brother. After destroying the Giant, Golbez and FuSoYa head to the core of the moon to defeat Zemus. Cecil's party follows after reuniting with Kain. After battling to the moon's core, the party witnesses Golbez and FuSoYa defeat Zemus but quickly lose to his ultimate form, Zeromus. With the united life force of all beings combined with a special Crystal provided by Golbez, Cecil and his party defeat Zeromus. Following the conflict, Golbez decides not to go back to Earth and live among the other Lunarians, as he would not be welcome on Earth. One year later, the heroes reunite for Cecil and Rosa's wedding and coronation as Baron's new king and queen.
By the way, FFIV's music is awesome.
Jake: What's your favorite Final Fantasy?
Ben: Final Fantasy IV, it has a great story.
Jake: Yep.
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