Which Final Fantasy game is the hardest in overall?

[Serapy]

Which one do you think is the hardest? Such as finishing the whole story, sidequests, obaining special items and summons and eliminating bosses, etc. ?

I vote the PAL FFX version for having the hardest bosses, it was incredibly hard because I needed to level a lot, obtaining special items, maxing all spheres in order to beat the dark aeons (especially Penance) effectively WITHOUT using the cheap Z aeon. The story was a tad hard, the story bosses such as Sin were kind of hard sometimes too.

Oh, by the way, using resources such as strategies of how to kill bosses, where to get items, etc. doesn't count

[Ramza Beoulve]

FFI, FFV and FFT are up there, obviously.

[scrumpleberry]

V, cause I'm playing @ the mo and I'm just finding it SO GODDAMN BORING. I haven't actually played III or Tactics, but I have played all the rest. I think.

[Slothy]

FFI-III. They just required rediculous amounts of tedious level grinding to make them not annoyingly hard. Later games may have added things like super tough bosses, but many can be beaten pretty easily if you fight them right, and even when level grinding was necessary at least the later games were fun.

[LunarWeaver]

If you don't overlevel in Final Fantasy Tactics, I'd say that is. Heck, sometimes it even traps you into battles where you can't level, so if you aren't ready then you're smurfed.

[Serapy]

I never played Final Fantasy Tactics before, so I can imagine how would that feel

The ruby weapon in FF7 is damn hard too, I haven't beaten it yet.

[cloud21zidane16]

The ruby weapon in FF7 is damn hard too, I haven't beaten it yet.

Once youve done it once its easy, dont give up!!

Id say hardest would have to be either FFI or FFV.

[Ouch!]

Does tedium count for difficulty? I choose FFI. Grinding is annoying and makes it difficult to find the motivation to complete it.

[Goldenboko]

FFIV hardtype.

[Wolf Kanno]

Probably FFIII and IV(Hardtype). Grinding fixes most issues with I and II while V and up are easy as long as you know how to use (and blatanly abuse) the systems.

III is tough cause it's fairly inflexible at times, so bringing the wrong party can screw you over big time. IV is a grind fest as well but a tad more difficult cause the story dictates who you have in your party and the boss fights actually require more strategy than most people would give the game credit for. Getting the final weapons in the Lunar Core shows you how difficult this game can really be...

[Vermachtnis]

II, the final dungeon(s) is a pain and somehow Ultima barely hurts anything even when it's LV20. And they change the party right there at the end and Leon isn't built up enough. In fact non of the characters you get where any good, except for Leila. Leila was awesome.

[silentenigma]

FFII

[Takara]

FFI, FFII, and FFT.

[Maybe_Tomorrow]

I'm gonna say that I has been the hardest (so far) but I'm not done playing it.. Out of the ones that I have played I think that VIII was the hardest.... IT WAS SO BORING!!! having to draw all your magics from your enemies! OMG!

[Bolivar]

I would have to say that the first Final Fantasy will always live in Infamy among the series titles as not only was it the first, but it is the hardest.

the original, the remake's the easiest one.