Get ready. commenced.
The worst battle system.
The worst world.
The worst upgrade mechanic.
The worst leveling system.
The worst summons.
The worst magic.
The worst villains.
The worst NPCs.
The worst camera.
The worst system of equipment/weaponry.
The worst monster design.
The worst airship.
The worst "ultimate" skills.
The worst items.
The worst vehicles.
The worst disconnect between cutscenes and gameplay.
The worst voice acting. (yes, even X was better. Though, to be fare, the voice acting is far from the worst thing about the game).
The worst sidequests.
The worst minigames.
The worst music. Best music of the series, are you smurfing kidding me? Bland techno and the final fantasy equivalent of elevator music? You like that trout, fine. But to say it's the best in the series sounds utterly ludicrous to me. I'm not trying to diss anyone's opinion, I just truly don't get it.

But all of these things can be true and a game still deserve to get sequels, if, that is, it has a good story and strong characters worth being revisited. The problem is, there's not a single compelling character in the whole smurfing series. Not one. Fang comes close, but even she disappoints. And the rest just get progressively worse, with Hope and Snow down at the bottom.

The script is atrocious, just the biggest load of horsetrout and melodrama I've ever allowed myself to sit through. FFs have been getting progressively less funny over the years. What happened to SE's sense of humor? Was that all Sakaguchi? Or maybe Uematsu? When did FF stop being fun? These games have no soul. The characters have no soul, no real warmth, no depth.

This feels appropriate.


The characters were shallow enough in the first game! What the hell makes you think you can stretch that into a series?

The worst story. I despise melodrama, and that's all this is, and to me FF has always been first and foremost about the story. Without a good story driven by good (or at least passable) characters and quality music, it's just not FF to me.