Any FF that uses real-time combat is not a real FF game. The series died with X.
FF7 is immensely overrated.
Final Fantasy 8 is clearly the best.
The junctioning system is super fun!
It is totally not impossible to find General Caroway under that arch to continue the dialogue to progress the game. I definitely wasn’t stuck that way for years!
I don’t know if 8 is the best. It is really good, but I think 9 and 12 are up there too.
FF7 is laughably overrated.
The best Final Fantasy game is the one Final Fantasy game I played as a kid.
Not for me, I was already on my 5th FF game and well into my 20’s when 9 came out and that one is by far my favorite.
It matured the 3Dish visual style to a point it’s still perfectly playable today (while 7 just looks awful and klunky now) and I enjoyed the gameplay and story above all others.
Every time I try to play 8, I abandon it after a few hours. The story and characters just don’t do it for me at all. And not that they just don’t do it for me, most of them annoyed the shit out of me. Only game worse in that regard is X.
The games are soundtrack simulators. Nobuo Uetmastu is heart and soul of the series. The rest is just packaging for it.
Jobs and materia are fun to play around with though.
All Final Fantasy games have bad writing and cringe inducing dialogues. Which was fine when the games had no voice audio, but I just can’t stand it in the modern FF with voice overs. Square Enix really needs to hire competent writers that aren’t solely influenced by manga.
