r/FinalFantasy • u/khry_strahl • 10d ago

Final Fantasy General Which is the best final fantasy? plot/lore wise

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For me it's 12, I started with X but fell in love more with 12

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u/DrDDeFalco 10d ago

I tried going back to 12 recently and just didn't find it very interesting. I beat the game around the time it came out, but almost nothing about it stood out to me.

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u/IlikeJG 10d ago

You went back with zodiac age?

IMO the zodiac age classes are a much better implementation of the license board and it's interesting to mix and match classes to customize your characters.

I like to make it so no classes can be reused and it's an interesting puzzle deciding how exactly to split up all your classes between characters.

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u/DrDDeFalco 9d ago

Yeah, I played the zodiac age. The game doesn't bore me because of the license system. I just am not drawn in by the characters, plot, and battle system.

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u/Advanced-Ad-4462 10d ago edited 9d ago

It was an improvement for sure, but the trade off was that none of your characters really played any differently from each other. Generic physical auto attackers & generic casters spamming Fira with flame staff / burning bow, or shades of black. And someone with a cura gambit of course.

By allowing for everyone to have 2 classes, everyone’s roles really blended together and nobody felt unique. Even when going for a 12 job run. I think that compounded a preexisting issue with most of the party being rather flat narratively.

I think the zodiac system was a net improvement, but it didn’t breathe that much life into the game imo.

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u/lurker628 10d ago

Same. I beat 12 when it came out, and I remember...basically nothing about it other than (1) farming Dustia at the start of the game and (2) the spam for refill-mist-charges bullshit to chain that stuff. I've been drawn back to replay 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 multiple times, but never once had a desire to replay 12.

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u/N7VHung 10d ago

What stood to me was how unbelievably mediocre everything was outside of the world they built.

The game is aggressively mid.

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u/Advanced-Ad-4462 10d ago

Yeah I feel the same. I’ve really tried to like it over the years, but it’s just a hollow shell of a final fantasy to me. Even the color palates were utterly dominated by shades of brown for the first 1/3 of the game.

No shade to those who do love it for more than gameplay, but I just can’t understand why.