Something that has come up in discussion a bit for me is the idea of how the Final Fantasy games always start off really strong in the beginning and then kind of peter out somewhere around the halfway point. It seems to me that some people here somewhat agree that even fan favorite entries don't necessarily end as strongly as they begin. So my question for you is which FFs have a strong second half for you. I don't mean just the ending, I'm talking about starting from a midway point all the way to the end.

For examples of where I would place the halfway mark for the games:

FFI: Everything after the defeat of Marilith assuming you didn't sequence break.
FFII: Retaking Fynn
FFIII: Restoring the land below the sky island.
FFIV: Entering the Lower world and meeting the Dwarves.
FFV: Galuf's Death
FFVI: The World of Ruin
FFVII: Sephiroth summons Meteor
FFVIII: Garden Battle and Edea's defeat.
FFIX: Queen Brahne's Death
FFX: Macalania Temple
FFXII: Mt. Burimasce and the Treaty Blade
FFXIII: Chapter 9, or basically when Dysley makes his true nature known.
FFXV: Alitssia and Leviathan

Granted this is simply where I feel the midway point is for their stories and you're free to pick a different one.