Hmmm, let's see where i go with this one.
1)One boring and wintry night in Winter 2008, i had an urge to play some classic SNES games..mostly RPGs since i had held Breath of Fire 1 as my all-time favorite RPG and it was the only SNES RPG i had own back when i was a child. I had a craving for some good RPGs to play on SNES and a quick google search led me to Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger for me was amazing and i fell completely in love with the ATB battle system which led the SquareSoft brand to get very well recognized to me.
2) After i beat Chrono Trigger it expanded my love for the JRPG genre even further. Another quick google search led me to Final Fantasy 6 SNES. Now, i had heard the game Final Fantasy numerous times in my childhood growing up but for some reason it never really interested me. The graphical Chibi character sprites in FF6 turned me off about the game and i had remember this game back in 1994 when i used to watch my older cousins playing it. The popularity of Final Fantasy 6 made me very very very curious to try and give it a chance. Liittle did i know that the game that i had absolutely 0 interest in playing, became my BEST game ever in existance. I gave Final Fantasy 6 a try and as soon as i saw Terra , Biggs , and Wedge climbing up the snowy mountain scenery, i was completely hooked. The quality and feel of this game hit me right outside my head and i knew i was in for an EPIC journey. FF6 gave me an experience i'll never forget. It was the first game to made me care and feel for the situation the characters were in. So much emotion is packed into one single cartridge that i thought was unbelievable. This game made me a die hard Final Fantasy fan.
3) After i was done with Final Fantasy 6, i wanted MORE. I started to play the numbered series one by one. After 6 i went to Final Fantasy 4 and it was amazing. Characters like Rydia, Rosa, Edge, Kain, and Cecil are just unforgettable. The music on both 6 and 4 was so amazing, that i actually search the composer of the series and since then i became a Nobuo Uematsu fan.
4) Next was FF 5. Another game that i didn't regret on wasting hours of my lifetime playing. It was just amazing. The job ability was brilliant. I had expected a love story at first and was pretty dissapointing it didn't have one for me...but the characters and Gilgamesh were just too awesome that made it up for me.
5) FF5 then led me to Final Fantasy VII. Now since i came very late into the Final Fantasy Scene, i didn't have a PSOne to play it on. I then found out it had a PC version, and then decided to play it there. Final Fantasy was one of the BEST if not the most heart-whrenching interested game i had ever played. This game kept me into the story so dang well, that i thought i was watching a movie with all this CG cutscenes and all of it's Plot twists. Aerith became my favorite JRPG heroine next to Terra and Nina (BoF 1) and thought her and Cloud were perfect for each other. When Aerith died by the hands of Sephiroth, never would i thought i would cry so much in a video game. That moment has become something special in my life. It was like if i had seen a loved one , get murdered in front of my eyes. Powerful moments, and amazing plot twist made this game to be one of the greatest games ever made only behind Final Fantasy 6.
6) Next after the epicness that was FF7. I decided to play FF8. At first this game was a bit weird to me because of the new way of leveling up and because i didn't really understand the Junction system and how it worked. I had figured out how the game played and bcame hooked. Junctioning led to so many possibilities. Limit breaks in this game were astounding. The graphics, CG, and summons blew my mind away as well as the story. The ball scene between Rinoa and Squall made me into believing this game had a love story (my fav) which imediately amazed me and boy what a great love story it was. Had a lot of fun with this one and i plan on beating it again pretty soon :)
7) And at last came Final Fantasy IX. At first, i had a distasteful pleasure iin playing this game because of the kiddy character designs. It was too different from i had previously played (6, 4, 5, 7, 8) and it was set in a weird setting. I decided not to judge without playing it and give it a shot. To no surprised, i was hooked. Everything in the beggining of the story drew me in. From the Plot twist, love story, comedy, and disaster. This game had it all. Not to mention one of the best endings i have ever seen in a JRPG featuring the hero and heroine showing their love and feelings for each other.
There goes my journey with Final Fantasy. It has been a great one full of surprises and incredible moments. As time had passed, Final fantasy has changed a lot and have stopped playing them recently. But for the rest of my life, i will hold (6,5,4,7,8 and 9) in a pedestal as one best video games i have ever played and i'm happy i started with the right one with Final Fantasy 6.
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