Horaaay! Finally managed to beat Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System! Probably ranked as my second favorite in the series after VIII (Very unpopular ranking, i know)
Did you start playing Final Fantasy with or after VII, or did you start before that?
Reason I ask is that I've found that most people who really like VIII started with the later games, while people who started with VI or earlier (I started with IV) really didn't connect with it. Both groups loved IX, of course.
Another thing I noticed was that VIII was the (almost) culmination of a trend of pushing fantasy out of the Final Fantasy games. Look at the progression from VI through VIII, and you see fantasy progressively being pushed out in favour of science fiction elements more and more. This came to a head with the Spirits Within movie that was totally science fiction with no fantasy elements at all. IX, of course, reversed course, and was followed up with X which had a much more even blend, which carried on after that.
Just my weird observations on the series, sorry about that. Carry on.
Yeah i did start with VII, i grew up with a Sega Genesis and moved on to Playstation so i never had the opportunity to play the earlier ones at the time
With that being said though i really don't like the idea of nostalgia so if i was blinded back then by my youth i'd have no problem bashing on VIII, but when it comes to RPGs i really, really like it when they offer a lot of customization, VIII is no doubt the one that offers the more of that, being able to put any status/elemental proprieties to your attacks and also the whole GF abilities thing, i still didn't touch FFV but i heard that one also has a great deal of customization regarding jobs so i'm looking forward to trying that one (For reference i think VII is okay at best, i feel kinda constrained in that game, i did like the story though but Sephiroth as a villain didn't do much for me, he felt too mystical for someone wearing that coat)
When it comes to setting i don't have a preference, be it more fantasy or modern, XII being set in Ivalice is more on the fantasy side although airships in that game are treated a little more modern-like, really liked the narration of that game and now i want to try out FF Tactics and Vagrant Story, both set on Ivalice
As for the movie, wasn't it actually supposed to be called something like Gaia but then got changed to Final Fantasy for marketing reasons?
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