Mkay here's a story for you that I have told before.

I watched the Final Fantasy Spirits Within movie and I LOVED IT. Seriously. So then my mom's ex boyfriend who I was living with was like "You know this is a video game series, right?" I should have because I had actually played a few minutes of one of them before, but I was young and forgot. But I was already super in to video games at this point and I guess I was like 10 or 11 or something.

So I started googling the Final Fantasy video games and came across FFOnline, which had character profiles and stuff from all of the games. It took me a while to understand that the games and movie were not related though and I kept looking for the main character of the movie. I didn't find her, obviously. BUT I did find Yuna who, in my mind, looked close enough. So I looked up more about Yuna and learned about FFX-2

IT HAD ALL GIRLS AND OUTFIT CHANGES WHAAAAAT

But sadly, although it had been announced, it was not yet released. So for Christmas that year, my mom's ex bought me FFVII, VIII, IX, and X, and he said those should keep me occupied until X-2 comes out.

So you would think I would have started with X, but I saw Vivi on the cover of IX and decided I just had to play that one first. And so I did and I fell in love with it. It was my first experience with that style of RPG as the other games I played were fighting games or platform games or things like OoT and Dark Cloud. So I hadn't really played a multi-disc, turn-based, extremely story heavy game before. But I loved it. It was like playing a book. It had a wonderful story and world and characters. It allowed me an escape from some of the home life issues I was having (and would have in the future) and it was just an amazing experience like no other. It's the reason I love RPG's so much!