Final Fantasy

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FF4 is my personal favorite though I'm happy to say thats probably a 7 year old child's nostalgia speaking if you choose to get that one I'd just wait for the DS remake that will have more of the script that was left out due to SNES cartridge sizes back then and hopefully have a cleaned up translation and any remaining bugs in the game fixed. FF6 probably has the best story 14 characters that for the most part all have well developed stories and character development versus the most evil villain of the series in the fact that hes just evil for the sake of being evil no mysterious past or super powers that made him go crazy. This one is also supposed to have a DS remake eventually but that probably won't be till next year at the earliest I'd imagine. If you have to play it now I'd say go GBA but definitely not PS1 port I played the Chrono Trigger port on the PS1 the load times are horrendous for those ports. Menu opening on the SNES/GBA versions = instant the PS1 version is a 5-6 second wait which will add up really fast over the entire game after you've opened the main menu 100 times. FF10 I liked well enough it had an interesting combat system because different attacks take longer to execute so depending on your actions you can manipulate a turn list that you see during battle. Eventually the game devolves though into you just spamming quick attack over and over till your enemy is dead and if you get even a single of the characters ultimate weapons you will essentially 1 round the last boss so its not much of an ending if you do it that way. The main character is pretty whiny but the world its based in was otherwise nice I enjoyed it overall it does depart from all other Final Fantasies though in that there is no exploration of the world map its totally linear till you hit the airship then you just choose locations from the list. So it is missing a pretty key component to 1-9 of the series but for a newcomer to it you'd never know otherwise anyways.