Siveon
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Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI*.FFII and III (NA) are the best.
C'mon, man.
Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI*.FFII and III (NA) are the best.
Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI*.FFII and III (NA) are the best.
C'mon, man.
I've been looking for JRPGs that may catch my attention for a while now. Being 24 years old makes it hard for me to go back to a genre I enjoyed while I was a teenager. Western RPGs have spoiled me, and dialogue exchanges such as this one:
- "I need to talk to the King"
- "Ok, wait a second."
- "King! Your soldier doesn't trust you anymore."
- "Ok."
- "Okay soldier, enter!"
- "You are not one of my soldiers anymore."
I just finished the Dawn of Souls remake of Final Fantasy 1 and can easily say, without a doubt, that it is the best of the Final Fantasies I've played and can recommend it with massive confidence. You could see the Wizardry and D&D influences in there. Also, it had so little dialog, but for the most part, it was written well, what was there. The story was simple and generic, but was just an excuse to go do shit in the world. Also has replayability because of different party builds that are possible. Good game all around, if a little easy by the end (though Chaos Shrine and he Final boss make up for that). Just don't play the added dungeons until later on, otherwise the levels you'd gain from completing them trivialize portions of the game. Also, very little grinding was actually present in my first playthrough of it. It simply wasn't necessary (except because of the Earthguft Shrine, see above for opinion on that).
FF VII for me.
Though I didn't play VI. I did play VIII and IX which were okay-ish - but nowhere near VII. I played a bit of XIII which was simply terrible. I also played a bit of IV, but not much. Wasn't impressed (still better then XIII). I've yet to seriously play X (its sitting on my backlog... on some far-away position), but given no free roaming/overland map I probably won't rank it very high.
After reading a bit about XII MMO-like nature I'm not interested in that.
The original American release of Final Fantasy IV (as FF2 on the SNES) had a poor translation, but I'd still take that original dialogue over the overwrought, melodramatic, long-winded exposition that passes for dialogue writing in most RPGs of the last two decades. [...]
What's wrong with the sprites?IV was melodramatic as fuck, so many heroic sacrifices. It was their first attempt at a story driven FF, so they went nuts with the drama. And I still don't understand what's up with Cecil's dark knight sprite.
Being the first FF on a shiny new platform, they wanted to make IV a mix of the best of the previous three games, which for II meant the bigger focus on story. I's story was coherent but simplistic and III was kind of inane. To be fair, II might be more dramatic since people actually stay dead there.
Re: Cecil - His portrait looks like this:
But on his full body sprite, he looks more like in Kazuko Shibuya's concept art.
Not that it matters now since he's Batman nowadays.
It's fun but incredibly easy. Still love the job system. That job system in FFVI would have been amazing.No. Final Fantasy V is the best in series. It doesn't have a tedious melodramatic story, has great character customization with the largest job system in any FF game, has bosses around every corner, and is just an all-around classic JRPG and perhaps the only one worth playing.
I still haven't played the FFXIII trilogy. But at least now I have a real reason to.Lightning's armpits
Did you try the translated 'international' (in reality japan and korea) version. It changed the job board to 10 or so archetypes subboards (which i then used a cheat to allow class changing because i have no taste and it work surprisigly well to access skills before you should with some planning - but not too well). It also has a game inbuilt fast forward so... yeah.(okay one or two of those complaints was hyperbole but as a long-time FF fan I REALLY dislike FF12).
Did you try the translated 'international' (in reality japan and korea) version. It changed the job board to 10 or so archetypes subboards (which i then used a cheat to allow class changing because i have no taste and it work surprisigly well to access skills before you should with some planning - but not too well). It also has a game inbuilt fast forward so... yeah.(okay one or two of those complaints was hyperbole but as a long-time FF fan I REALLY dislike FF12).