Best Final Fantasy Endings

[Ragnar[PT]]

Ok people, wich FF ending was the best for u?

[Ultima Shadow]

FFVI... i think.

[Armisael]

i am between FFVIII and FFIX but i like more FFIX's ending and i think it is the best ending of all FFseries.

[Del Murder]

VI and IX had the best endings.

[Sefie1999AD]

According to the "Worst Ending" poll, most people will probably disagree with me, but I think FFIX has the best ending in the series. There's a lot of emotions involved in the ending, and I thought both its sad and happy parts were well done.

[aeris2001x2]

i know its a cliche but nothing touches ffVII end, not even ffVI and considering ffVI end is amazing i must really worship ffVII.

[Xander]

I've only finished VII, IX and X so far but out of those, IX was by far my favourite ending, it's so wonderful <3

[System Id]

My favorite ending is VIII. It kept me entertained throughout (unlike IX) and didn't have me thinking "okay, where's the rest of it?" after it was over (unlike VII). X had a pretty good ending too, even though it was a little too sappy for my tastes.

[Felldoh]

VI had my favorite ending, but I quite liked the endings to VIII and IX.

[The Man]

FF6 and FF5 still had the best endings I've seen. The FMV-laden sequences honestly haven't impressed me as much.

[black orb]

>>> FF7..

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I'll say FFV. It has the only ending whose events can be altered by actions taken in the game besides FFIX (and to a much larger degree than that). It also has probably the best ending music in the series, from "The Silend Beyond" to "Final Fantasy" (you know, "Prologue") to "The New Origin." It's just great when that last one gets to its most triumphant part just as we're shown the four heroes, one after another, fighting an enemy and going into a close-up and freezing while a list of their level and the abilities they've learned scrolls by.

The only down note on it is the staff roll sequence; Batz, Reina, and Faris trek across an endless frontier on chocoboback while Klulu rides above on the flying dragon. The graphics are nice, complete with sprites that face diagonally and chocobos that set the precedent for the ones seen in-game in FFVI, but it's terribly bland, just like the "let's look at the Falcon flying from different angles for five minutes" sequence from FFVI's staff roll. I can definitely appreciate that FFVIII and FFIX were the only ones to find ways to make this part of the ending interesting--either by amusing camcorder footage of endearing character interaction (which ironically was missing from most of the rest of the game) or by sentimental reruns of FMVs, respectively.

[The Man]

I'm given to understand that much of the blandness of FFVIII may be due to a poor translation - apparently, in the Japanese version of the game, Squall's feelings for Rinoa don't seem to come out of nowhere so much, for instance. Woolsey's shoddy work certainly reduced the appeal of Holy Sword Legend 2 for me, so I can see how such a thing would be detrimental towards a game.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Aaron...did you mean to post that in this thread?

[The Man]

Yeah, I was responding to your reference to "endearing character interaction (which ironically was missing from most of the rest of [FFVIII])." Should've made that clearer, apparently.