Heretical Final FAantsay Admission Take 2

[Sarisa]

I have no idea what counts as popular or unpopular opinions anymore since I haven't played anything since XII first came out, but here goes:

I is alright; I never got terribly lost or found it that hard, and I wish the series had kept the Dia spells as they were actually kind of neat.

II is a terrible game. The combat is unfun, the story is forgettable, and you stop caring about your fourth party member because you know they are just going to die off like all the others. If the combat system was changed to something else this game could be so much better.

III should have had the remake for the GBA, PSX, or PS2; but since the remake was for the DS I never got to play it since I don't own the system.

IV had too many playable characters, making it impossible to be attached to most of them. Delete Palom, Porom, and Edward. Let Rydia keep her white magic.

V had the best fighting system with the job class thing, the chicken knife is amazing, and so is the black chocobo music. Having a tree boss is stupid though.

VI is meh, and I never did get very far in it. It wasn't outright bad like VII was, but I never really felt like I wanted to continue with it and only ever picked it up when I had nothing else to do. Though to be fair the GBA was a pretty old system by the time I got this, so that may have something to do with it. Also I hate Kefka.

VII is boring, and I couldn't make myself play past the first disc. I had to FORCE myself to get that far. My brother tells me it gets better in subsequent discs, but I felt literally nothing during Aeris's death scene that was supposed to be all tragic, so this game is obviously just not for me. Maybe the remake with better graphics would help, as looking at polygons after you have a PS3 is painful. Then again maybe all the hype ruined it for me.

In VIII I just spammed GFs all the time instead of actually using my people, and they until wait almost endgame to punish you hard for this. This is dumb, and so is junctioning.

Zidane should be pronounced ZI-DANE not Zi-DAN, like don't you know how vowel rules work? Also, Kuja is the best Final Fantasy character. Fight me. Though trance Kuja is ugly.

FFX is the best game, Tidus should be pronounced TIDE-US, he is an okay character, and I hate Jecht with a passion. Fight me. Also blitzball is stupid; and I shouldn't have been forced to play a game.

X-2 was not good, but it was not that bad either; it just feels worse than it is because the combat and everything else broke pretty sharply from X and we obviously have a different main character who acts nothing like herself anymore. Also sphere break is the best minigame in Final Fantasy history, and I played it for hours because it was just that much fun.

I don't believe MMOs like XI and XIV should be mainstream final fantasy titles. I still had dial up when XI came out, and it made me mad I had to miss out on it because of it. And having to pay for a monthly subscription instead of being free to play with cosmetic purchases like most other MMOs is really stupid. Either charge me a one time upfront fee or only charge for add-ons; having to continually pay each month to play something is stupid.

XII has a terrible storyline, I can't remember the plot at all, and Vaan and Penelo could have easily been removed and the game literally would not have changed one bit. Also Fran's voice annoyed me. Reks was literally the best character in the game and he didn't even make it 30 minutes.

I have all of the XIII saga which I got slowly over the years for Christmas (ironically XIII itself was the last one I got) but I haven't played any of them. At first it was because I was waiting to get the original to play first as I wasn't sure if the sequels would make sense without it, but by the time I finally got XIII I had kind of grown out of the franchise. So I guess my criticism here is that FF had failed to keep me hooked enough up to this point, though that's more of a series fault than this particular game.

XV having a party of all guys made me really mad; as I girl I'd appreciate some female playable characters to identify with. I get that X-2 was an all girls game but it felt more like a spinoff than anything and reception to it was obviously poor. Though to be fair I never did play XV cause I was mad they went backwards in terms of gender diversity.

While tactics and tactics advanced are both good games, the former has a stronger story while the latter has more fun combat. Though I wish in tactics characters didn't stop mattering to the story once they joined your party permanently as then they could die; just keep them story relevant and give me a game over if I kill them.

- FF in general has always been merely a "pretty good" series, with some great entries. There are far better JRPGs out there.

And finally: I don't really care about the series much anymore.

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