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Aw, I love IX. I understand not enjoying the graphics style, but which elements didn't you like?

(I also love VIII, but yeah, to each his own and all that.)

I personally think that the worst FF that I've SEEN so far is a movie. I mean out of all the FF games and movies I've seen, I think Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the worst. I also think it was my introduction to Final Fantasy, unless there was something sooner.

But as far as JUST games goes, I'm going to say that it's a thin line between one and two. I can deal with the graphics, but up to a certain point it's hard to figure out where to go, and the battles get to be ridiculously complicated. I haven't beaten either of those though I think I've gotten close to beating FFI.

And yet still I want to play FFI and II again.
I have something to like about all final fantasies though, I guess.

What specifically didn't you like about the movie? I'm not disagreeing that it was sort of bad, but I also don't think it's nearly as bad as other people do.

I agree wholeheartedly on I and II, though.



I don't really think you can say there were plotholes unless you've played the whole game. I mean, who knows what they'll explain later, right? That said, there really were plotholes, but they're the kind that you can fill in, not the ones that warp the time/space continuum around them.

I've heard it's because they ran out of time making it and the makers disagreed on what should happened, so they ended up switching a bunch of stuff last minute. It is rather annoying, differentiating dropped storylines and plotholes from the actual story and real hidden story points, but I think that for all the confusion, it's still a really good story if you just take it as it is.

Heh, the dialogue was probably my favorite part of XII. I just can't resist something that sounds so purely epic. I really liked the voices.

...But I sort of have to agree on everything else. I prefer XII to the really early games though, because they have seriously got no story.

~Narcissus of Death

((Spoiler warning below for people who haven't beaten it...))

Mm, I can understand if you didn't like the feel of it. The atmosphere was a big part of what I loved about IX; I like the theatricality. VI's atmosphere actually creeped me out, but I'll admit that I didn't really get far enough to get a good idea.

I thought the characters were incredible, though. I love how they stay as part of the story; everyone is important even later in the game, unlike, say, VIII or X or XII. Much as I dislike Quina, I must grudgingly admit that even s/he wasn't completely useless. More could have been done with them, but I feel like it would have slowed down the story. It's nice how much attention is paid to them relating to the story, than they don't have to throw in little side things to make they characters seem real, They just did to me. For example, Eiko being all alone at Madain Sari and Burmecia being destroyed: They were caused by major storyline events and became the characters' stories. This would be in contrast to Wakka and Lulu, for example, who have sort of a backstory in Chappu, but it's only loosely related to the overall storyline.

Zorn and Thorn were annoying and infuriating, but I still really like them as characters. I thought they were cute, and their way of speaking was awesome. Plus, the fact that they're not just mindless drone enemies that follow Brahne, and then they actually defect to Kuja... and when you find out that they were actually halves of one monster? I just really like the detail they put into what could have been boring throwaway characters.

In fact, NPCs in general were really well developed. I've just been looking up IX quotes, and they say some pretty awesome stuff.




Although... I'm not sure if I understood what you meant by "party characters as non-playing characters"?

I'm not sure.... I like all ff games.. hehe ninja