Despite being stuck at Barthandelus II (end of Chapter 11) since Spring Break, I actually really like FFXIII and think it is really over-hated by some people. I would play XIII-2 if I could just finish the damn game already.

FFVI may be one of my favorite games of all time (it would be in my top 3 if I made a list), but I regularly took day-long breaks because I found the process of grinding 12 of my characters to level 50 or above to be tedious.

My brother was expecting more gameplay than textboxes/cutscenes in FFVII, so he was disappointed with the game. Because the community heaps praise upon that game, he is hesitant to play other games in the series in which similar praise is heaped upon (namely VI, IX, and X). However, he is interested in FFVIII because he thought Squall was a badass (judging from his appearances in the Kingdom Hearts games).

This same brother is interested in FFIV.

I have only recently started playing Final Fantasy games and VI is the only one I have beaten out of the two that I've played.