BEST OVERALL EDITION(Final Fantasy)[Sony Home Console Gen]

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VII>X>IX>XII>>>X-2>Crisis Core>VIII=XIII>>>>>>>XIII-2
Seven is just amazing story wise through and through along with best magic system and characters. X is very close in over all story epic but some of the dialogue falls flat, nevertheless combat is best in the series as well as best minigame(blitzball). IX is just very charming, story isn't as good as the other two but some of the character motivations are very noteworthy like Vivi and Kuja. XII is often misunderstood but had a really good main plot. Dissappointed me it didn't have much characterization for most. Combat system is maybe the second best in my book. unfortunately its lack of content keeps it from being as good as the others.

X-2 was a really good game imo, it gets a lot of flack for all the girly pandering. It had one of the best job systems ever, actually coherent story that expounds upon the original instead of just making new shit up. It only beats out Crisis Core barely as CC's story was amazingly done and delves deeper into the VII mythos, only the combat was a tad bit more lacking due to party/hardware limitations.

I have a love hate relationship with both XIII and VIII for similar reasons. They both lose sight of true purpose in the middle. Characterizations are total hit and miss (Good:Lightning,Fang, Sahz, Squall, Rinoa, Zell...... Bad:Selphie, Irvine, Hope, Vanille,Snow). I actually like XIII's combat system minus some very big hitches like not being able to switch characters mid battle. VIII's was decent yet that junctioning system equals totally broken.

XIII-2 is complete blasphemy. The game had little to nothing to do with the original story laid out by the first, instead utilizing the tired "Time Traveling" plot to mix things up. It comes off appearing like what we all know it is, a reusing of assets from the original and half assed updates thrown together quickly to try and cash in on stuff they already made.