the fact that you get a ff game and your like wow this game was good, so you get hyped for the next ffXV for example, but no matter what you can never guess whats going to be the plot or what type of people are in it, i love how surprising the final fantasy series games are and how out of this world*or our guessing range* they can be....like i can guess and be close about whats going to be in gowIV, but never ffXV.

what bout you? what do you love about the series?

lol, yeah, ok.  I guess you don't know the Final Fantasy formula?

1. Find an unlikely lead character
2. Make sure that character is beyond emo, whiny, and/or resembles Cloud in some way
3. add belt buckles and chains to that character
4. create a female character that has giant breasts or sluttly clothing.  Bunny ears help.
5. Create giant elaborate CGI cut scenes, story comes later.
6. Create Cid
7. Create a villain that starts out as the main villain, but really isn't.
8. Create another villain that is some sort of lackey, sidekick, or someone who started good but turned evil.  Have that villain become the main villain in some elaborate obvious plot twist half way through.
9. create elaborate obvious plot twist half way through the story.
10. create story that supports elaborate obvious plot twist.

So for instance, I'm going to make Final Fantasy XV.

I start by creating a character that has always dreamed of becoming a soldier in the nations army but his mother won't let him.  That character is a typical teen who rides a motorcycle, wears dumbass belt buckles all over his clothes, and is named Storm.

One day while walking towards the neighborhood arcade with his lifelong female giant-titted friend Jewles, the resistance, Freedom Force, attacks a nearby village.  You luckily make it out but find two Freedom Force fighters in the way!  You find a downed guards weapon and use it.  ENTER TUTORIAL!

You narrowely make it out with Jewels and while you both laugh about how awesome both of you were, OMG YOUR MOM GOT KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION!  You vow to avenge and destroy the scum Freedom Force.  The next day you join the army, Jewels cannot join yet and you part ways.

After an elaborate cut scene of you transitioning from a dipshit emo youth to a dipshit emo young adult, Storm finds himself at the graduation ceremony of the nations army.  During the ceremony the Freedom Force attacks!  Storm uses his newly mastered knowledge of combat and magic to take down the Freedom Fighters that killed his parents. 

Things start to get hectic but General Chaos comes in and saves you and then orders you to defend the president.  On your way you see Jewels but SURPRISE!  She's wearing a Freedom Fighters uniform!  It's an emotional moment that calls for another elaborate cut scene, you two battle but Storm and Jewels both dont' want to kill or even fight each other!  Whatever do you do?

Well General Chaos, the awesome man you've admired and learned everything you know from, comes in and attacks!  As he readies his killing blow against Jewels, he reveals the nation are a bunch of evil dicks and they will stage more explosions so the people go against the Freedom Force.  You stop Chaos but get knocked out.

You wake up in the secret Freedom Force hideout where you meet generic black sidekick and your adventure REALLY starts from there.

And DONE!  One Final Fantasy game written in about five minutes.

lol, yeah, ok.  I guess you don't know the Final Fantasy formula?

1. Find an unlikely lead character
2. Make sure that character is beyond emo, whiny, and/or resembles Cloud in some way
3. add belt buckles and chains to that character
4. create a female character that has giant breasts or sluttly clothing.  Bunny ears help.
5. Create giant elaborate CGI cut scenes, story comes later.
6. Create Cid
7. Create a villain that starts out as the main villain, but really isn't.
8. Create another villain that is some sort of lackey, sidekick, or someone who started good but turned evil.  Have that villain become the main villain in some elaborate obvious plot twist half way through.
9. create elaborate obvious plot twist half way through the story.
10. create story that supports elaborate obvious plot twist.

So for instance, I'm going to make Final Fantasy XV.

I start by creating a character that has always dreamed of becoming a soldier in the nations army but his mother won't let him.  That character is a typical teen who rides a motorcycle, wears dumbass belt buckles all over his clothes, and is named Storm.

One day while walking towards the neighborhood arcade with his lifelong female giant-titted friend Jewles, the resistance, Freedom Force, attacks a nearby village.  You luckily make it out but find two Freedom Force fighters in the way!  You find a downed guards weapon and use it.  ENTER TUTORIAL!

You narrowely make it out with Jewels and while you both laugh about how awesome both of you were, OMG YOUR MOM GOT KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION!  You vow to avenge and destroy the scum Freedom Force.  The next day you join the army, Jewels cannot join yet and you part ways.

After an elaborate cut scene of you transitioning from a dipshit emo youth to a dipshit emo young adult, Storm finds himself at the graduation ceremony of the nations army.  During the ceremony the Freedom Force attacks!  Storm uses his newly mastered knowledge of combat and magic to take down the Freedom Fighters that killed his parents. 

Things start to get hectic but General Chaos comes in and saves you and then orders you to defend the president.  On your way you see Jewels but SURPRISE!  She's wearing a Freedom Fighters uniform!  It's an emotional moment that calls for another elaborate cut scene, you two battle but Storm and Jewels both dont' want to kill or even fight each other!  Whatever do you do?

Well General Chaos, the awesome man you've admired and learned everything you know from, comes in and attacks!  As he readies his killing blow against Jewels, he reveals the nation are a bunch of evil dicks and they will stage more explosions so the people go against the Freedom Force.  You stop Chaos but get knocked out.

You wake up in the secret Freedom Force hideout where you meet generic black sidekick and your adventure REALLY starts from there.

And DONE!  One Final Fantasy game written in about five minutes.

lol, yeah, ok.  I guess you don't know the Final Fantasy formula?

1. Find an unlikely lead character
2. Make sure that character is beyond emo, whiny, and/or resembles Cloud in some way
3. add belt buckles and chains to that character
4. create a female character that has giant breasts or sluttly clothing.  Bunny ears help.
5. Create giant elaborate CGI cut scenes, story comes later.
6. Create Cid
7. Create a villain that starts out as the main villain, but really isn't.
8. Create another villain that is some sort of lackey, sidekick, or someone who started good but turned evil.  Have that villain become the main villain in some elaborate obvious plot twist half way through.
9. create elaborate obvious plot twist half way through the story.
10. create story that supports elaborate obvious plot twist.

So for instance, I'm going to make Final Fantasy XV.

I start by creating a character that has always dreamed of becoming a soldier in the nations army but his mother won't let him.  That character is a typical teen who rides a motorcycle, wears dumbass belt buckles all over his clothes, and is named Storm.

One day while walking towards the neighborhood arcade with his lifelong female giant-titted friend Jewles, the resistance, Freedom Force, attacks a nearby village.  You luckily make it out but find two Freedom Force fighters in the way!  You find a downed guards weapon and use it.  ENTER TUTORIAL!

You narrowely make it out with Jewels and while you both laugh about how awesome both of you were, OMG YOUR MOM GOT KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION!  You vow to avenge and destroy the scum Freedom Force.  The next day you join the army, Jewels cannot join yet and you part ways.

After an elaborate cut scene of you transitioning from a dipshit emo youth to a dipshit emo young adult, Storm finds himself at the graduation ceremony of the nations army.  During the ceremony the Freedom Force attacks!  Storm uses his newly mastered knowledge of combat and magic to take down the Freedom Fighters that killed his parents. 

Things start to get hectic but General Chaos comes in and saves you and then orders you to defend the president.  On your way you see Jewels but SURPRISE!  She's wearing a Freedom Fighters uniform!  It's an emotional moment that calls for another elaborate cut scene, you two battle but Storm and Jewels both dont' want to kill or even fight each other!  Whatever do you do?

Well General Chaos, the awesome man you've admired and learned everything you know from, comes in and attacks!  As he readies his killing blow against Jewels, he reveals the nation are a bunch of evil dicks and they will stage more explosions so the people go against the Freedom Force.  You stop Chaos but get knocked out.

You wake up in the secret Freedom Force hideout where you meet generic black sidekick and your adventure REALLY starts from there.

And DONE!  One Final Fantasy game written in about five minutes.

Good post, but I'd like to point out that a lot of your guidelines for a FF-game don't fit FF9. Though I guess that's to be expected, since FF9 is generally considered to be somewhat of an outlier in the series.