PixlBit | When Jesse Miller, our resident features guru, asked if I would be interested in doing a Final Fantasy retrospective for the series’ 25th anniversary last year my answer was a resounding “yes!” In the months that followed, I poured all of my love and dedication into a five part series detailing the 14 core Final Fantasy games. It was a labor of love for me; no series of games has been more influential or important to me as a gamer. I’m a staunch defender of these games, even when they go into weird territory like iOS time-wasters. That doesn’t mean that I’m blind to the fact that the series isn’t what it once was, however. As excited as I am for the future of Final Fantasy, I think that the fine folks over at Square Enix need to take a good long look at where the series stands. To that end, I have 5 things that I think could help immensely as we move forward into the next generation.
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VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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While I agree there is a few things final fantasy could do to improve I feel that this is how final fantasy evolved. The fact that 1 didn't lend itself to a sequel meant that square could make changes as they see fit. While I didn't really enjoy 12/13 I actually quite enjoyed 13-2 and I am look forward to a more kingdom hearts style final fantasy (vs 13)
I think FF doesn't need to change but the way Square deals with the series has to change.
Not keeping us up to date
Not listening to fan feedback
And shoving FF on the title of a lot of games that aren't needed.
Finally I think square need to remember it was FF that saved them and they do treat it with respect but I think they could treat the name better.
in recent years ff has become a turd and the release the same game 100 times over ff13 ff13 lightning returns ff13 uncut ff13 the uncut recut ff13 the remix ff13 the ultimate remix ff13 x2 ff13 the pre ff14 remix ff14 1 year aniversary disk ff13 the ultimate uber turd editon
1 - Fire Wada
2 - remember you're a eastern developer
3 - fire wada
4 - remember you're a eastern delevoper
5 - repeat steps 1-4 until you get it right
Seriously they just need to stop trying to westernize everything and stick to what made JRPG's so popular during the PS/PS2 days. Ni No Kuni is a perfect example of a JRPG done right & FF XIII is a perfect example of a JRPG done wrong.
They just need to stop westernizing their games and be themselves.