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0. My dad had a copy of Final Fantasy 3 AKA Final Fantasy 6 that I used to watch him play......I loved seeing him play, the music and so on. But I was very young so I didn't understand the story, but the music remained in my head forever. Now years later I would play it myself....

1. My epic journey began with FF7. It was the first time I had played a game like it, I was completely sucked into it, the characters, the story, the world, the music and everything. That game made me a FF fan .

2. Next came Final Fantasy 8........now this was an odd scenario, I played FF7 and FF8 years after they came out, around 1999. Now FF was very popular then and these kids in my school bashed FF8 non-stop and proclaimed FF7 to be the best thing ever. So when I went into playing FF8 I went with a mind set that it was going to "suck". BUT IT DIDN'T......I liked it, not as much as FF7 but still I thought it was as an ok game. It was too different from FF7.

3. Final Fantasy IX......the first time I got a FF game on release day! And I liked it a lot, but again it didn't live up to FF7 and was very different from FF8 or FF7. Thats when I realized every Final Fantasy is going to be different and its best to accept it as such. That helped me enjoy FF9 more, I liked it more than FF8 at least!

4. Now difficult times came, I got a Gamecube instead of a PS2.....so I couldn't play FFX. BUT I found Final Fantasy 6 Advance for the GBA in stores.....and my Gamecube had a GBA player, so I thought I could play it on the TV, which I did. Little did I know I was about to have the best Final Fantasy experience of my life, something that hasn't been matched to this day. FF6 was awe-inspiring, the best game I had ever played, topping FF7 by a long way and every other FF to that point. I loved the characters, the story, the music, the setting, the villain. What didn't I love about this game?

4. Eventually I did get a Ps2 in 2006 and I played Final Fantasy X..........I had heard many things about the game from friends, some said it was too girly, some said too linear, some said awesome, some said unforgattable....in the end for me it was another amazing experience. The music, the battle system, the story, most things gelled with me and it became my favorite Final Fantasy after FF6. The series could do no wrong, I got FFX-2 at once!

5. Final Fantasy X-2.......what to say about this game. I didn't like it, I had a hard time believing I didn't like it, but I disliked what they did to Yuna and the other characters, the battle system was the fun part. Overall I was let down, this is not how I wanted to remember FFX, one of my favorite Final Fantasy games!

6. Then came 2007 and Final Fantasy XII ......could the game be better than FFX-2 and calm my worries? The internet didn't help with the negative talk after its Japanese and NA release. In the end I liked Final Fantasy XII a lot, it is my weakest Final Fantasy that I have completed but the important thing was I liked it. The game felt very different from rest of the pack but it had its own strengths and had its own style. It is probably the best written game in the entire series.

7. I got a DS soon after and I got got Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy III for it. FFIV was amazing, and shot straight up to the high ranks in my top FF games list. It had a special charm about it.

8. Final Fantasy III I did not think much of, it got so boring I left it mid way through to play Dragon quest V (which is amazing). FF3 comes from a time very different from now, maybe thats why I didn't like it much.

9. Now I rebought FF7 and FF8 on PSN......this time however I loved FF8 much more than FF7. In fact I got bored of FF7 half way through and moved on to FF8 and got sucked into it like never before. Why did this happen? I do not know. But the simple reality was 10 years ago I liked FF7 much more than FF8, but now its the other way round.

10.. Now we come to Final Fantasy XIII, my most hyped game this generation behind GTA4 and MGS4.....it turned out to be another amazing experience that shot right up in my best FF's list.......and much better than X-2 or XII, the most recent FF's. I loved everything from the cast to the music, art direction, setting, battle system.....so many things were done well in this game. Before launch was a difficult time to be hyped for FFXIII, could it be another GTA4-esque disappointment for me....luckily it wasn't and is my favourite game this gen behind the best game of all time, Metal Gear Solid 4.

11. A few months ago I wanted to get Final Fantasy XIV but the negative reviews and university work load stopped me, I may get the PS3 version. I am shocked at the metacritic score of the game, its surprising how this has come to pass. Someone needs to be taught a big lesson over this, the game should have been left to bake for longer.

12. Now we come to the future......Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Agito XIII both look extremely promising, and Final Fantasy XV can't be more than 2 years away!



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