Every Final Fantasy cover ranked from worst to best

Gamesradar: "Final Fantasy evokes powerful emotions; longing, adventurous optimism, ridiculous good humor, and awe are natural byproducts of wandering through the series’ strange worlds. That human tapestry ain’t exactly easy to encapsulate in a single image, though. How the hell do you translate a spectrum of experience that includes somber reflections on the meaning of life with riding a giant bird off a mountain into a single piece of cover art? The answer is: you can’t. Square-Enix keeps on trying anyway. Sometimes they even come close! Other times… woof. Here, then, are all of the main Final Fantasy game covers ranked from worst to best."

[Omnislashver36]

Gotta disagree with his opinion on not knowing what to expect out of FFX from its cover. The guy's got a sword, a weird neo-eclectic vibe in clothing/sword, and is on a beach, signifying water will have a lot to do with the environment/story. They could have done more, but I'd definitely rank it above FFXIII and even FFXV(The old cover was better IMO).

[pasta_spice]

Yeah i think the FF10 cover was pretty good for the graphics alone. I remember seeing a pucture of Tidus for the first time when the game came out and thinking 'wow he looks so real. I NEED to play this game!'

[Adrian_v01]

The cover of FF X was what got me into FF and JRPGs, as I grew up on the countryside in a country where gaming news weren't very common and the usually played games were shooters. VIII was the first game I played at a cousins house (up until after the Ifrit fight), and it was a totally new experience from the games I usually played, but I forgot the name. Then I bought a notebook with the cover of X on it and found it amazing, got the game, played it, loved it, found out the game I was eager to play but couldn't find was of the same franchise, bought it, played it and then played the rest of them and many more jRPGs :D

I like the minimalistic covers, and X is one of my favs.

[Gardenia]

Covers are different from Europe, Japan and the US

I had these covers, which look much better

http://images.pushsquare.co...
https://images-na.ssl-image...
http://www.ffshrine.org/ff9...
http://squarehaven.com/game...

[Pathogenic]

This my current ranking system from 1-10 and I stand by it since the day I played my first Final Fantasy game which was Final Fantasy VIII back when it first released on PS, PC.

1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Final Fantasy VIII
3. Final Fantasy IX
4. Final Fantasy XIV
5. Final Fantasy X
6. Final Fantasy X-II
7. Final Fantasy V
8. Final Fantasy IV
9. Final Fantasy II
10. Final Fantasy III

[moegooner88]

Funny thing is I had never played a FF game before I picked up FFX and what made me notice it was the cover with the water sword. Ended up being one of my fav games. Awesome box art.

[iliimaster]

they need to rank these games different 1-10x2 and then when they turned to world of warcraft battle style forgetting those final fantasy fans who made them who they were

[LAWSON72]

I love ffx cover. Water is a huge part of the game, so is the unique character models and it gives off that sense of an adventure looking out a horizon. They are all sort of simplistic so there is not much to rate. The FFXIII has a nice shine to it, iirc which had a nice quality look however I dislike how Lightning is the only thing on it. I really like the crystallized cocoon art in the logo should have just made that really big lol. I really dislike the shift in artwork design for Ligntning returns.

[chadwarden]

FF13 is the best

[shauzy]

i call bullshit, he loves 13

[feraldrgn]

I always preferred the plain white covers with the title & hand drawn art.

[xtheblackparade]

XII is the best imo.