Oh man, so many GREAT things about the Final Fantasy series that I like :/ where to begin!
I'd have to say that first and foremost the series has ALWAYS been a tale of Epic preportions, everything about those games screams massively epic, from their INCREDIBLE cg cutscenes, to the casting of every summon, to the final tier of whatever ability you were working on. Putting time into the game is ALWAYS rewarding.
Almost every final fantasy I've played (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Tactics) plays differently. They all feel like a different game somehow connected to the same universe. Theres just this sense of origin when you play them lol. Might sound kinda wonkey but I get this familiar feeling every time in a very good way.
Every Final Fantasy that I pick up and play, ALWAYS ends up being the "holy shit I didn't know a system could do this!" game that pushes and pushes hardware past the point of breaking and into hardware bliss :P Every final fantasy is very well developed in terms of programming, VERY few glitches, VERY fluid movement, VERY scerene environments that capture what they're trying to tell you. They remind me alot of Nintendo's fluidity on first party titles with a much higher bar on graphical detail set.
Audio is a major thing for me in videogames, graphics are one thing (which they ALL deliver on), but audio is the other part of the immersion, and Final Fantasy delivers on that front also, spells sound very mystical, environments sound like the supposed to, nothing gets washed out or drowned by ambient noise, it seems like they go through extensive work every time to make it sound like a Final Fantasy, and I appreciate that :)
Final Fantasy is a series, and almost all of them are really REALLY good games, even if one isn't the greatest I will buy it hands down just to own it. It's been a VERY kind series that's shown me some of my favorite moments in video game history :) I'm a die hard fan for as long as they make them ^^
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