Best Final Fantasy of All Time

[G2ThaUNiT]

IcaroRibeiro said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

My only familiarity with the FF series has been Tactics on both GBA and PSP (which are goated games!), 7 Remake, and most recently 16. Which my opinion has really soured on the latter as time has gone on, and 7 Remake had a great third act, but it was a real slog to get through the story with way too much filler and awful side content, and hearing Rebirth has the majority of those same issues.

I feel like I missed out on something special in the series glory days. I don't have anywhere near the amount of time I used to have to game. Barely able to get through my backlog while trying to play day one games I'm interested in, but anyone got recommendations of a few games in the series that a newcomer can play? Looks like the entire franchise is available on PC.

Play X. It's easy, respect your time and have great story and worldbuilding. It's still the peak Final Fantasy in terms of art design. It's very unique in the sense you will never find another game with similar art design of X. The presence of voice acting and quality 3D graphics improves the experience significantly compared to 2D and PS1 entries 

Gameplay wise, it's the most refined turn based Final Fantasy, although pretty easy it's fun to go trough the sphere grid system and the fact you can change your party during the battle allows for neat combinations and combat options. Unlike older Final Fantasy It's not very grinding and exp formula allows you to level up your party on the get go without bothering much with repeating battles again and again  

The only weak point is the game design being way too linear and later bosses become a slog because Square just made them immune to almost all stats effects, which remove the strategic layers and makes you brute force trough cheer damage points 

That point right there is already winning me over! lol That was something that always pulled me away from getting into JRPGs was the grind and constant repeating battles. The only franchise that ever got me into that kind of gameplay were the original Pokemon games.

Thanks for the recommendation!