Best Final Fantasies, Categorized

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Battle system
Best - X. Flows so, so nicely thanks to being entirely turn-based. Turn order is near-totally predictable and strategy is emphasised quite well.

Worst - XII. Standing around waiting for your party to kill everything isn't my idea of fun. I very quickly disabled Gambits and never used them again, but even when I entered commands myself it was still boring.


Story
Best - I don't know :P

Worst - Possibly FFIII or FFVIII. They had one major problem in common: they story feels as though the developers made it up as they went along.

Honourable mention - Worst plot twist - Necron.
He bore no relevance to the plot whatsoever. There are theories but none of them have any adequate proof. The only one I liked was the idea that Necron is actually Necrophobia from FF5, brought out of the void he plans on returning everything to. But there's one thing that destroys this theory completely: He's called "Darkness of Eternity" (Eien no Yami) in the Japanese version, and why have the translation include a reference to a game that, at the time, had never officially been released in that language*? And "true form of the Iifa Tree"? Right, so for some reason a single 5,000 year-old planet has already developed the ability to make the entire universe disappear. That's not very plausible.

*Actually I realise I may not be in possession of all the facts here. Was Anthology released before or after FFIX in the states? I live in England and we got it waaaayy after.

Graphics
Best - FFVI. Really pushed the SNES and the sprites looked excellent. Possibly the only Amano thing I've ever remotely appreciated.

Worst - FFVII. Okay, even for its time, many games on the PSone and Nintendo 64 had horrible, terrible graphics as everyone was still getting to grips with how to look good with a limit of about eighteen frakkin' polygons per model, but for the insane number of times I played FFVII there were so many points at which I could not tell what something was. I think it was on my twentieth playthrough or later that I finally realised Sephiroth was carrying Jenova's head in the Lifestream flashback.