The darkest Final Fantasy?

[SuperMillionaire]

I also noticed that FFVII (or its related compilation) also displayed depictions of BLOOD in the cutscenes. I haven't seen that in any other Final Fantasy game (yet).

[leader of mortals]

Blood does not make a dark game. Settings, the people within those settings, and the troubles the main characters go through are examples of what makes a dark game. The hopelessness the people of the world after Meteor shows is what makes FF7 dark, Kalm is a dark place, Vincent's story is dark, but FF9 is darker, with the destruction of Cleyra and Lindblum and Alexandria, with the hopelessness felt in every single inch of Burmecia, and with Freya's storyline.

Freya is probably the most interesting character in any Final Fantasy game(Even though I don't think she is too amazingly important to the main storyline). I call FF9 the most dark final fantasy, out of all I have played, and FF10 to still be darker than FF7.

[Wolf Kanno]

I feel several of the FFs are definetly dark but as to what is the darkest really comes down to subjective opinion. I feel VII is a dark game but I would say IX's a bit darker, I just finished the Lindblum attack scene last night and forgot how grim everything was afterwards, not only the children seeing their parents die but also Zidane pleading for the life of an injured Black Mage against an angry mob that proceeded to dehumanize it and talk about the loved ones they saw killed by their kind. Not to mention one of the major plot elements of IX is (SPOILER)an alien race smurfing with the reincarnation cycle so they can live on on a new planet while the old species is dispersed as Mist. You're screwed when you are alive and when you're dead.

I feel, II, VI, VII, IX, and XII are the darkest numbered entries as well as Tactics being pretty screwed up cause all evidence in the series suggests that the afterlife/gods of that world are seriously smurfed up which is then thrown on top of a gritty story using historical emulations of medieval Europe... The best thing that happened to Ramza was that people thought he died. That was the only way he was getting a happy ending anyways after losing everything and being drawn into a conflict that resulted in him killing his own family.

Yeah... FFT is probably the darkest.

[Darth Cid]

I don't know, have you seen the preview for FFXVI?

[SuperMillionaire]

I once talked with another Final Fantasy fan while in a video game store within a flea market, and he told me that the first "darker-toned" Final Fantasy was FFIV. I looked at it, and perhaps maybe it was the first dark Final Fantasy, but FFVII would later surpass it.

[qwertysaur]

Tactics is probably the darkest so far.

[Christmas]

I think FF VII is pretty dark cause it is alway night time in midgar and you spend most of the time in Midgar when you start the game.

And I am afraid of the dark. :kaocry2:

[Jiro]

But IX has a lot of Mist which makes it dark all the time.

[SuperMillionaire]

I don't see any sunshine in FFVII, compared to other Final Fantasies. I saw plenty in FFX, apparently because Tetsuya Nomura, for once, decided to change it up a bit and create a more upbeat cast of characters, because he usually designs gloomy characters with bad weather to match.

[Rase]

I don't see any sunshine in FFVII, compared to other Final Fantasies.

Snowboarding!

[arcanedude34]

The one what has a negro in the party.

They're dark.

Or so I've been told.

[SuperMillionaire]

I don't see any sunshine in FFVII, compared to other Final Fantasies.

Snowboarding!

Well, yeah, okay, but other than that, nothing...

Tetsuya Nomura likes gloomy characters with gloomy weather to match.

[leader of mortals]

You're using all of the wrong reasons to call a game dark. How does weather actually make a game darker? That would be like calling the Dark Knight an evil, saddening film just because it takes place at night much of the time.

[arcanedude34]

You're using all of the wrong reasons to call a game dark. How does weather actually make a game darker? That would be like calling the Dark Knight an evil, saddening film just because it takes place at night much of the time.

I believe everyone's just having a larf now. There was a seereeuss discussion on page one, now we're having fun.

[Skyblade]

You're using all of the wrong reasons to call a game dark. How does weather actually make a game darker? That would be like calling the Dark Knight an evil, saddening film just because it takes place at night much of the time.

Weather makes the game darker the same way everything else does: it helps set the mood. Take any scene from a movie, and film it twice. Once in a brightly lit sunshiny area, and again when it is dark and raining, and ask people which one is darker, even if the dialogue and music are exactly the same. There is a reason we describe the tone of a situation as "light" and "dark", you know. The imagery of such things is tied very deeply in with the ambience, including lighting effects, and precipitation. Don't think that weather can't have a very distinct effect in setting the mood of a scene.