Final Fantasy VI.

What!?! Final fantasy vi and vii not number 1 on da list!?!?

yes. that is the truth. anyway. This comes from the FFIII snes thing so yeah.

(i shorten story a bit ok)

story: Terra and soldiers attack town for esper. Soldiers die terra knocked out.
Terra awakes and escapes village. town elder tells thief locke to help terra.

they escape and go to the sand castle. they meet king edgar. evil jester Kefka appears. kefka burns down sand castle. the trio escape on chocobo's.

the trio arrive at karate master duncan's house. duncan not there. trio go into mountain. evil karate dude is there. edgars karate bro,sabin, helps them beat evil karate dude.

the team end up at the rebel hideout. terra joins. team get seperated on their way back to the mines. Sabin goes to imperial camp and finds kefka poisoning castle. cyan only survivor. cyan joins. they flee. also shadow appears there.

the trio go to forest. go on ghost train. Sabin suplexes train. they escape. a fight on a waterfall takes place.

the trio meet orphan Gau. gau shows them helmet and they escape underwater.

Locke is in town sneaking past guard. finds general celes. celes betrays empire joins rebels. they escape. they all meet up in the mines.

uh oh kefka attacks. kefka defeated. the team talk to esper. Terra turns into esper. flys away. team look for terra. terra sleeping in old mans house in thief town zozo. team find ramuh. ramuh tells them to save the other espers in the magitek factory. team go to opera house. team get setzer who has airship. they fly to magitek factory. espers saved. celes stays behind. team escape.

terra awakens and rejoins. they go to esper gate. espers released. Emperor pretends to jail kefka. the team go to the magic village. team meet strago and relm. statues of balance found. return to village. kefka appears kills general leo. ( also celes is with you too). emperor takes to the skies with the floating continent. team attack continent. kefka betrays emperor and breaks the balance. WORLD DESTROYED. years later.

kefka is god. celes almost dies but is saved and goes on adventure to reunite members. ( side stories take place while looking for members)

team assualt kefka's tower. battle ensues in a 4 phase battle. kefka is defeated and his tower starts to crumble. the team escape.

the end.

good story when you play it though.

Gameplay: plays like FF IV. however you do a similair thing to FF VIII where you "junction" espers onto your characters. this allows you to gain extra stats upon level up. and it is also how everyone can learn any spell. this game also sports the biggest FF cast of 14! characters ( though some optional) so you have a big choice.

Verdict: first main series FF game i completed all the way through. its one of the easiest games as if you die you keep all your EXP and levels. the story is great ( though i dumbed it down a bit). and the music is some of Uematsu's finest. its a great game to try out if you havent ( though most people on this site have) and it used to be my 2nd favourite. till i realized i liked the next one more.