BEST

Story: VI - High Drama, comedy, and a wonderful cast of characters, great character development, and a plot that was rather original for its time.

Counting all FFs - Final Fantasy Tactics It had real drama, moral ambiguity, suspense, mystery, controversy and it made you really think.

Gameplay: V - Job classes for the win. Simple in concept, complex in practice. All of the numbered (and some of the spin-offs) attempts at redefining the system always fail to live up to the original.

Counting all FFs - Final Fantasy Tactics, everything V did but bigger and better...

Music: VI - My fave soundtrack with the best character themes in the series. The kind of music you hum along with as you play and awe when you hear it orchestrated. It beats most of the modern FFs hands down.

Counting all FFs - VI, you silly goose, didn't you read anything I wrote above?

Best Main Character: Terra Bradford, easily one of my favorite heroes in the FF series. I really loved her story and her struggles. I still hum her theme from time to time. Runner Ups - Lady Ashe (XII) and Cecil Harvey (IV)

Counting all FFs - Ramza Beoluve would tie with Terra, he was more realistic than the other heroes and I feel his story was quite splendid. Proof you can lose but still win.

Best Villain: Kuja - A narcissistic mastermind who feels all life is beneath him. Orchestrates the downfall of all the kingdoms of the world and overthrows a man who could be thought of as a god; then turns around and decides to end existence cause the thought of life going on after he dies is too much for his ego to bare. He has a sympathetic backstory but all it really does is make him feel real, it hardly changes the fact he's a twisted and evil SOB. I love him. Runner Ups - Kefka Palazzo (VI), Golbez (IV), Vayne Solidor (XII)

Counting all FFs - The Glabados Church, Yevon has nothing on these guys. You would need to play the game to understand what I mean...

Best FF in General: VI, IX, and XII

VI is my personal favorite and I feel IX and XII represent the best of the series in terms of story, gameplay, and design.
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Story: X - Boring, drawn out, and a riduiculous cast of RPG cliches. The only thing not predictable about the plot is the truth about Tidus and that was such bull, I couldn't believe what the game was expecting me to swallow.

Counting all FFs - Throw in Crisis Core as a tie. A hack for a villain and a plot that was basically a rehash of the VII plot except without the good parts, and it all felt like it was written by an obsessed fan.

Gameplay: X - I want to like CTB, I love the concept but the dumb as dirt difficulty, the matching game one hit kill on monsters, and the cinematic choices in boss battles, that half the time cripple the boss, just destroyed any love I may have had. Sphere Grid is also terrible in that it gives the illusion of freedom and customization when it really doesn't. Neither feature really starts to shine until the end game and personally, I didn't pay $49.99 so I could kill 30+ hours with a terrible plot and cast just so I can finally play the "fun" part of the game...

Counting all FFs - X- weren't you listening?! Though I guess I can nail Crsis Core again, at least as a runner up. The main story has variety but no difficulty whatsoever, the side missions have some challenge (except in the face of the mighty"roll" ability) but they are very repetitive and only the mission briefing really seperates missions from each other. The combat is very basic and is only saved by Materia fusion and the DMV.

Music: X - I only liked a handful of tracks and even then I was never fond of them.

Counting all FFs - X-2, remixes of some of X's track and bubbly pop filth for the rest. I also don't like either of Yuna's songs. (Don't tell my Gf )

Worst Main Character: Yuna, cause she's a smurfing doormat and never really showed enough backbone or grit for me to ever give a damn about her. She also falls into too many RPG cliches which amount to what little personality the writers failed to give her. Runner Up - Cloud Strife

Counting all FFs - Yuna (X-2), Starts the game saying she's going to find her own way and not let people boss her around and instead becomes even more of a doormat than before as she is suckered in to every sob story that comes her way. She learns nothing and doesn't grow at all and yet people claim she's gets such great character development...WTF?!

Worst Villain: Seymour Guiado - Tacted on "chatty villain" with a silly boo-hoo storyline thrown in so late in the game you no longer cared. Terrible design, a motive that changes almost everytime you meet him, and his only claim to fame is he becomes a Zombie that gets his ass handed to him how many times?

Counting all FFs - Genesis from Crisis Core, what's worse than Seymore or Shuyin? How about an emo Sephiroth wannabe that makes up 80% of his dialogue by reciting a stupid poem. How about the fact the writers decided to change the plot of VII to incorporate this wannabe loser into the main series? Seriously, there is nothing redeeming about this guy.

Worst FF in General: Gee... I wonder which one it could be...