Which was the darkest Final Fantasy?

[PhoenixAsh]

I'll go with VII aswell, why has noone mentioned the main character backgrounds?

(SPOILER)
Cloud, lost his hometown, failed his dreams to the point of hiding his face from old friends, then went insane.
Tifa, lost her hometown, winds up working in a bar in a slum.
Barret, loses pretty much everything except Marlene, winds up dedicating himself to something he isn't sure is right.
Cid, misses out on his one dream, becomes a washout with a constant reminder of it outside his door.
Nanaki, lives in shame of a father he never really knew, winds up as a test subject.
Vincent, loses his love, gets shot, winds up in a coffin for many years (from what I remember).
Yuffie, a Ninja from a village weakened by war, winds up as a thief whilst still a teenager.
Cait Sith, one gets killed, it's controller is working undercover in an evil corporation.
Aeris, do I even have to start???

[Snowman]

actually now that i think of it....FF9 was very dark, entire citys were being destroyed as well as countless lives....look at burmecia which was turned into a slaughterhouse.

[Andex]

Even though FF6 was my favorite. FF7 was the darkest

[skatehippie]

Bleh, lotta people already agreed pretty much on VII, but I'm gonna hafta be the odd-man-out and cast my vote on VIII.

I think "dark" can represent several things...if you're going for "dark scenery" then yeah VII takes the cake, but while VIII had a green world with fancy colleges and X was mostly tropical, their stories were very dark, respectively.

Squall is a very dark character. So dark that people hate the game for the fact that it was hard to relate to the character(s). Abandonment, loneliness, aggression...these things are ingredients for "dark"ness.

I think X was really dark cuz...well...there were lots of dead people hangin around and that's just freaky =\ Also, the whole Sin thing is just very scary...we're not talkin an evil corporation or an evil sorceress here...we're talkin a gigantic flying bran tumor that comes to kill you every 10 years...now I think living in a world like that would SUCK. The people of Midgar could at least be secluded to their own povety-stricken communities...but in Spira, there is no one community that is safe from being brushed over as soon as big Sin comes back.

X-2 is very dark as well...I mean it carries on the darkness from X and then adds all these twists to it...
SPOILERS...SORT OF:
-The crimson squad being gunned down?
-The aftermath of the Mi-Hen operation
-Half of the Ronso slaughtered in X (though we don't see it)

[Snowman]

thing is eight was an action adventure story with a happy ending ( i could relate to squall better than cloud).

10 and 10/2 were both romance, and although the hero didnt get to live his life with his girl they both loved each other and would oneday be united. they were both about coming to terms with life and moving on.

but seven...the world got knndlk'ed (insert rude word). cloud didnt really get togeather with aeris before she died, sephroth was a goody turned baddy turned nutter, almost EVERY character got trout on one way or another...and then the world went spoo at the end....FF7 was a tradgedy, thus overall darker i feel

[aeris2001x2]

ff9 is dark too! i mean fighting death itself as the last boss? ok i know necron is not death exactly, but u had to prove 2 him that life was worth living. throughout a lot of the game all i got was LIFE SUCKS etc and further evidence for necron.

all ff games i,ve played are dark. only ffx-2 is the exception lol. thats charlies angels.

[CrimsonD]

FFT was the darkest IMO. I don't know how to use spoilers, but there are going to be some so watch out.
Well first off the church created war between two nations which caused massive death to both sides. And it was all so the church could become the major world power. And there was so much betrayal in the game it was hard to keep up. Ramza's own brother killed his father. In a different family (I think it was Vormav's) the father turned into a minion of darkness and kept his kids fighting a war they didn't understand. Your best friend starts to manipulate everyone so one day he can be king. O wait, he is killed by his wife latter on ( Delita and Ovelia married, right). Also, St.Ajora, who was ment to be like the savior to the people turned out to be, well, I don't even know what that thing was you fought at the end of the game, but it was pure evil. The setting itself was pretty "dark". The land just got out of war and now the nobles and church wage another one. And there's the death corps, a group of soldiers fighting to survive. O wait, their leader forsakes his ideals and becomes a minion of darkness. And how Miluda( or was it Wigruf) who gave those speeches on what it ment to be poor was sad. When one of them talks to Ramza about the word meager and eating the same thing every day, I thought that was really sad.

[Snowman]

FF9 did have alot of dark moments, but the overall feel and look of the game was still to fantasy. in seven they picked up on the natural magic/paganism of earth magic, the lifeforce of all things and a corporation using it to power your TV's...thats dark too

[Dreadlock]

I think FFVII.:evilking: