Unpopular FF opinions you have for each game

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FF1: I don't know how unpopular the opinion is, but I vastly prefer the NES original to its remakes. I feel the rebalanced difficulty kills the experience, and MP instead of spell charges vastly changes up the resource management element of mages for the worse. I also can't stand the bonus dungeons at all.

FF2: I really like Leila. She isn't Minwu level or anything, but she comes on board with decent enough physical damage and pirates are pretty cool.

FF3: The final dungeon is not the worst in the series. Or even that hard. Also, the remake rebalancing Sages and Ninjas is terrible and I hate them for it.

FF4: I actually can't think of any particularly unpopular opinions I hold here, but, uh, Edward is a coward. I don't hold it against him and I've never minded his character, but the man hides from generic enemies little kids beat up and old people with sticks, and the implication really isn't that this is new behavior after the Red Wings bomb the castle. This is not brave man.

FF5: I guess my only unpopular opinion here is that this game is not underrated -- I find it to be a completely middling entry in the franchise. The story doesn't work for me, most of the events are uninteresting, and the combat mechanics are really the only thing that keeps me going each time I play the game. That said, said combat mechanics are fantastic, but even so -- one of the best? Ehhhhhhhhhhh.

FF6: Kefka is an overrated villain. Don't get me wrong, he and Vayne are my favorite villains in the series, but I really do think he is massively overstated by a lot of people, especially compared with . . .

FF7: Sephiroth is an underrated villain. Brother gets a lot of hate from a lot of people, and I really don't understand why. Disc 1 Sephiroth is probably the single most effective villain in the series, singlehandedly driving both you the player and your characters' quest across the world to track him down, remaining completely engaging the whole time. With almost unarguably two of the franchise's most memorable scenes linked to him, and at least two more that are pretty damn up there, its a pretty hard sell to me that he is a terrible villain.

FF8: I like the junction system and never found it especially confusing. There are certainly problems with it in the context of the game as a whole, but, much like FF2, as long as you aren't exploiting things the experience comes away pretty well balanced and enjoyable, and the GFs themselves are a wonderfully unique method of customization I'd love to have seen further explored.

FF9: I do not like Vivi. On a personal level he's a chill little dude and basically impossible to hate, but I have issues with him and wish I could have gotten the Black Waltz 3 instead.

FFX: I hate Yuna. Beyond hate. I like her less than a party of four thieves in the Marsh Cave. With no potions. In front of the Crown chest. I'd say with three of them dead as well, but, frankly, it's a party of four thieves without potions at the bottom of the damn Marsh Cave, so its basically the same either way.

FFXII: The combat system is irredeemably bad and needed to either go traditional turn based or full action based. The free movement in the game directly communicates to the player things that absolutely are not true, and I died numerous times to attacks in the game that weren't at all near me before I realized how the hell things were working. Do not appreciate!