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It's the weirdest thing. I've always considered myself a big Final Fantasy fan, but in reality, I've only ever played a small number of the core entries since Final Fantasy VII brought both series and genre into my awareness back in 1997. Worse still, I realised, after smashing through the HD Remaster of Final Fantasy X and its direct sequel a year back, that I've completed even less of them; only three if I disregard spin-offs and sequels.
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Gary Green said: It’s interesting to revisit the roots of your favorite franchises to see first-hand what’s changed and what’s stuck around all these years, though perhaps ‘visit’ would be more accurate than ‘revisit’ since apparently, Europe wasn’t worthy of the original six Final Fantasy games the first time around. By the time we started getting ports of these iconic games, we’d already been through the PSOne JRPG golden age. So we’d already seen the best of what Final Fantasy had to offer, while these predecessors looked outdated, unrefined, and (dare I say it) ugly. We aren’t bitter about the delayed releases, honest…
I'd love to but square said fk you to the ps fanbase that wanted these physically. Meanwhile switch got a physical release.
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I always go Yuna, Aerith, Rikku, Rinoa, and for some reason Vanilla, Ashe, Cindy, Lunafreya, Quistis
I still remember playing FF1 as my first RPG back in the day. I made it to the end of the game before fighting Chaos... Then forgot to hold the reset button along with the power button (which of course saved progress back then). Needless to say, next time I started it up, my save was no longer there. My young gaming heart was crushed, lol.