Even a five year old could understand THAT.

[Freya]

So far with VI I haven't gotten lost once. It all seems very easy to get. Which, with the other games I had to be like "oh wait... huh?" and think about what just happened.

[MJN SEIFER]

Although they're in no way "simple", I am tempted to vote for either FFVII or FFVIII, purley because they are easier to understand than most people give them credit for - FFVII especially.

Everyone keeps saying that FFVII lost a lot of important plot due to bad translation, and while I admit that the FFVII translation was by no means perfect - It was by far the plot that suffered the least. The things that apparently needed to be explained in the Ultimania guides were things like how the the Sephiroth Clones are "made", which is blatently explained in the game when Cloud revovers so I have no idea how people missed that one. People seam to miss what happened to the people from Nibelheim too, but I understood it on my second or so playthrough - you just got to talk to the right people in the game.

Although I can probably thank the fact, that I originally used cheat devices for both games - and this allowed me to restart the games almost instantly after completing them, and then sail through them with the "complicated" parts still fresh in my mind.

[Zeromus_X]

II was pretty simple, no time loops or major themes to think about at any rate.

[Laddy]

FFIV's was good and moving, but usually you knew what was going on very well.

[Levian]

Yeah, FFIV is pretty straight forward. Often you know what's up slightly before things happen even.

FFVII is definitely not the easiest to understand with sephiroth being alive and dead at the same time, as well as Jenova's involvement and what's real and not real about Cloud's past. It's not rocket science or anything, but it's not the most basic plot of the series.

[Jiro]

I'd say II or IV.

[Sephiroth]

FFVIII, purley because they are easier to understand than most people give them credit for - FFVII especially.

I don't understand that as well. I don't know how people don't understand the complete story just because they don't know the Ultimania. It is explained good enough in the story excluding some aspects. Final Fantasy VII's story is not very easy but it is not that complicated how it is claimed to be.

[MJN SEIFER]

V, the most complicated thing that happened was ExDeath hiding himself as a splinter in the butt of a little girl.

I know that this is an old post, but I have to ask; do you really concider fourteen year old girls to be "little girls"?

[Vermachtnis]

V, the most complicated thing that happened was ExDeath hiding himself as a splinter in the butt of a little girl.

I know that this is an old post, but I have to ask; do you really concider fourteen year old girls to be "little girls"?

I thought she was like 8 or 12 :P Krile's built like a little girl anyway.

[MJN SEIFER]

No she's 14.

You can tell she's not that young by comparing her to the characters that are meant to be little kids, plus in official art work she's shown to be closer to the other characters than to kids (even though 14 is still young).

EDIT: I think the reason so many people assume she's younger than she is, is because the game doesn't really develop her enough, so you kind of get the feeling she's just a little kid who's "just there" - shame because she has the potential to be an interesting character.

[kotora]

V, the most complicated thing that happened was ExDeath hiding himself as a splinter in the butt of a little girl.

I know that this is an old post, but I have to ask; do you really concider fourteen year old girls to be "little girls"?

I sure do.

[Clo]

I think it's so funny how far behind FFVIII is. That game was confusing! Time compression? Anything with time travel just doesn't WORK, because it just makes paradoxes.

I would say FFX was the simplest. Or IX even. Even at the end it all made sense to me with both.