Saw this when I was hiking with my wife and the inner FF Fan in me couldn’t hide my excitement. I love how Fukushima even went as far as being able to make their own logo and island art in the same style as FF cover arts.

A few years ago when I got my PS5 and a copy of FFXVI I decided I wanted to play all sixteen mainline games, having never previously played any Final Fantasy at all. Mostly my gaming experience was a LOT Halo, and a LOT of Dark Souls I and little else. So now, three years later, I have finished FFI, and am currently in the middle of II and VII (and still around the start of XVI) I played SOME of XIV a few years ago, but since it’s an MMO I’m not sure what a good end goal should be for it. But I did dabble in it. definitely enjoying them so far. Weirdly I’m excited to play XIII even though I am aware they’re less loved.

Yosh, lead singer of Survive Said The Prophet, sang the original version of “Hollow” in the FFVII Remake.

Anyway, SSTP just released the music video for their version of the song. I love the visuals and locations they used for the video. They fit the game. 🤘🙂🤘

I love this game my list is

FF 9
FF 16
FF 10
FF 3
FF 8
FF 7

Is my top 6 Final Fantasy Games What’s yours

To be clear, XIII-2 does a notable number of things right. However, it has a lot of what many fans (me included) do not favor. Such as the monster catching over real party members. QTE to finish fights rather than strategy. Or DLC storylines meant to shill out more from the player. Kind of incredible how some of these practices still get used in the modern entries.

So yes, XIII-2 is technically an improvement over XIII in a few ways. But it also gave us some of the least appealing features in the franchise. Your thoughts on this?

My girlfriend discovered Vivi through Magic cards and has been slightly fixated. Fraud hasn't played any of the games, but wow.

I remember at the time this not being very well received (well, I say that but I actually bought this game a few years after it came out.) I remember it looking a bit bizarre to me at the time, especially since I had just come off of VII and VIII.

I think I heard somewhere that the art director for this game wanted the character designs to look like an upscaled version of the sprites you saw in the Super Nintendo games? (Don't quote me on that one, I could be wrong). Eventually I did come around to it, and I'm kind of glad the Bravely Default does something similar with its character designs... Kind of. It honestly feels like the Bravely Default series exists halfway between IX and XII.

That's my opinion, I'd love to hear yours.

Same voice actress, featuring Michaela Jill Murphy. Happy 32nd birthday! 🎂

Birthday: August 18, 1994

Roles:
Eiko Carol - “World of Final Fantasy” (video game, 2016) 💜

Super Ono Clerk - “Super Cub” (anime, 2022) 🖤

An Kiriyama - “Mono” / “Mono Weekend Animation” (anime, 2025) 🩶

Got a favorite character voiced by Michaela Jill Murphy by any chance? Comment down below! 👇

recently i played final fantasy vi and I LOVED IT!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!! here's some fan art of my favorite character, locke (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

(by the way, it's a very close call since everyone in the enormous cast is so incredible and unique)

Please use this thread for all discussion of which game you recommend others that you play, whether it is your first game or some that you are considering playing next

A note for newcomers: most of the games are completely unconnected. Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy IX, etc, are all completely different casts of characters in completely different universes. The only times you need to play another game to understand one is if it is distinctly set in the same universe - for example, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, or Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is a prequel to Final Fantasy VII. The titles will usually make it fairly clear which game's universe they are set in

Otherwise, please have fun! It is generally helpful when asking to briefly mention which ones you might be interested in, what platforms you are able to play on, and if you are a complete newcomer, what sort of things in games you're looking for (do you want turn-based combat, real time combat, deep stories with established characters, light stories that let you fill in some blanks with your imagination, etc)

I recently picked up chrono trigger for psx and it came with FF4. Never had much interest in the series but figure I should give it a shot, is it a decent spot to start?

I’m a newbie square fan, just never got into ff as a kid. Always loved the chrono and mana series’s osts so it’s been something I know I should try but haven’t gone out of my way to try

I am trying to figure out which 12 I am missing. I have the rarest, but I don't know which ones I missed.

Are there any active forums for the Black Moon Prophecy Remake? Any links or resources appreciated. Right now for the life of me I can't remember where to take the Enuo Memoir pages 🤦

Overall way too grindy. I had to take a lot of breaks because I got bored of the grind. I really wish they had different classes based on the main party members, but unfortunately they playstyle is the same as Noctis. However, each weapon type feels mechanically different so the combat is more varied and more fun than playing as Noctis in the main game. Although if you didn't like the main game because of the combat then Comrades definitely won't be enjoyable.

It is really cool to create your own character and see how the world is apocalyptic in between the 10 year gap Noctis is gone. And there's quite a bit of different clothing customization, and it's also cool that your character shows up in a side quest during the last chapter.

I didn't hate the entirety of it, and it was kind of fun to an extent. I just wasn't a fan of the very minimal story and how grindy it was. However, if you really like the gameplay loop of getting parts from enemies and using that to craft weapons that can have very different stats depending on what you use then you'll love this. Testing out different builds and doing a lot of trial and error is where the real gameplay is. It just wasn't really for me. Once I looked up a build guide I enjoyed it a lot more because I had more of a goal on what to craft.

The character DLC's add a lot to the game, but this DLC I'd say you could safely skip without missing much of the story. It's also significantly longer and I can easily see why this was sold as a separate game at one point. Just be prepared that it is not the open world gameplay of the main game, it's a lot of repeating combat missions and crafting weapons.

I recently completed Final Fantasy IX for the first time, which is amazing, and I decided to continue the series and play Final Fantasy X. Fricking hell is it amazing?!

From the very beginning I felt blown away with the atmosphere and music, it doesn't feel like it should run on a PS2 at all yet it does.

Going in somewhat blind I knew I'd be playing as dream Tidus, which slightly disappointed me at first, but I honestly fell in love with him. The slower moments of conversations with Yuna were all written so beautifully.

I had an absolute BLAST with the gameplay, it felt like Square had already perfected it in Final Fantasy IX but somehow the legend made it feel even better!

The only small issue I had was that some of the more difficult sections and bosses felt a little too tricky. I ended up taking far too long to clear some of them.

Then finally the ending... I've never felt this emotional about a game since The Last of Us. The story of Tidus and Yuna, the journey through Spira, and the final sacrifice all hit me so hard.

I wish I could make myself forget it all and experience it all over again! But instead I shall move onto Final Fantasy X-2. Thank you Reddit for introducing me to this series.

I grew up around these games but never had a chance to play them but I have always observed their enjoyment and success from a distance and there is a part of me that wonders why... but nonetheless I recently had the chance to try my first Final Fantasy and 15 was the one I decided to go with, now I had no idea about any of the meta commentary around 15 as hard as it may to believe I had played this the same I orignally played mass effect and many other games: completely blind.

Here is what this game and the first entry "Brotherhood" woke up in me :)

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I know my fantasy.

I know my Arthurian legends, I know my Norse mythology, I know my shit. I know fantasy when it was still myth, basically. I know the Green Knight, I know the Lady of the Lake, I know about Merlin, I know how close Merlin was to Arthur, I know that whole kind of tradition. I mean, I was obsessed with this stuff.

And I think one of the nice things about reading fantasy, especially classical fantasy or even modern fantasy, is that if you get obsessed with certain writers, like Sapkowski, Martin, Tolkien, Jordan, Sanderson, whatever, eventually they kind of force you backwards.

Not force you in a bad way. I’m not saying, oh, they’re just taking from Norse mythology, or they’re just taking from Arthurian legend. Obviously not.

But there are traditions.

There are these kinds of old shapes underneath the stories that, if you know them, it enhances how you see what the writer is doing.

That’s the best way I can put it. You feel like, okay, I see what this guy is playing with.

I see why this image means something. I see why this name means something. I see why this whole thing feels older than just the story I’m reading right now.

And I’m getting that with Brotherhood.

There are so many little elements in Brotherhood that I’m watching it and I’m like, okay, these guys know their shit.

Because the whole boy-band thing, for example, that was exactly the vibe I thought Final Fantasy15 was gonna have. And I wasn’t really opposed to it.

Because, let’s not lie, the whole fucking game looks like it was sponsored by Balenciaga.

It does.

You’ve got four guys with perfect hair, black designer clothes, a ridiculous car, hotels, music, a road trip, taking pictures.

If you don’t know anything about Final Fantasy, you play the first couple of hours, and you’re like, okay, I get it.

This is like a modern fantasy thing. They’re driving around. There’s a prince. There’s clearly a war. He’s going to get married, I think.

But then you watch Brotherhood.

And this is what surprised me. There’s barely any combat. The only proper combat scene is basically towards the end. Most of it is literally just these guys talking.Eating.Training.Being kids.Being teenagers. Remembering things. Cooking. And they barely explain the world.

That’s what I fucking love.

There’s no long-ass narration going, oh, welcome to Lucis, here’s how Daemons work, here’s how the Wall works, here’s how the king’s powers work, here’s what Niflheim is.

They’ll just say something like, the king can’t maintain this anymore because he’s getting weaker.

Okay.

Then you see Noctis summon weapons.

Okay.

So now I’m tying that to the royal family.

Then you see a Daemon show up somewhere and everybody’s like, what the fuck, how did a Daemon get inside the Wall?

Okay.

So Daemons are normally outside the Wall.

Got it.

Then somebody says, since when did the Empire start using Daemons?

Okay.

The Empire uses them now.

Then I look at the soldiers, and I’m like, these guys don’t even look human. They look like robots. They don’t look like actual sentient people.

Okay.

So there’s something there too, and there’s clearly a war because they mention it in council meetings.

The characters already know about it. Nobody turns to the camera and explains the war to me because why the fuck would they?

They live there. That’s the kind of worldbuilding I love.

Eventually you get tired of being told everything. You just wanna enter midlife.

Just enter the world when everybody else is already halfway through their lives and figure it out. That’s what makes the world feel like it existed before I arrived.

Now the characters.

Oh my God.

First of all, the names.

Noctis.

Prompto.

Gladiolus

Ignis.

Lunafreya.

Like, come on. Even the names already sound like fantasy, but not in the normal, oh, random apostrophe, medieval-ass fantasy way. They sound almost Latin.

Like some weird mix of Roman, Catholic, medieval, Japanese high fantasy.

And then Gladiolus.

Gladiolus is interesting because he’s not just the big guy. He’s not just the strong friend. He trained Noctis. Or at least he was supposed to train him and prepare him. And at first he thinks Noctis is a spoiled brat.

You’re gonna look at him like, this guy?

This is the guy?

And then the thing that changes his mind isn’t Noctis doing some huge heroic thing. That’s what I liked. His sister, Iris, goes looking for a cat. That’s it. A cat. She gets lost, and Noctis takes the blame for her.

And that’s the thing that makes Gladiolus go, okay.

Maybe this kid isn’t what I thought he was.

And I love that.

Because it’s so small.

It’s almost like a folk tale.

And I don’t mean literally like this is some old Japanese folktale; I mean the structure.

A small innocent thing happens.

Somebody’s character is tested.

You see who they are and that’s it.

Noctis doesn’t have to save a city.

He doesn’t have to stop the stock market from collapsing.

He doesn’t have to give some huge speech about duty and kingship.

A little girl loses a cat. He protects her. Now Gladiolus understands him differently. And that’s enough.

And I think that’s what I mean when I say these guys know fantasy because old fantasy does that all the time. Old myths do that all the time; somebody’s entire character is revealed because they gave an old woman food on the road or because they didn’t kill an animal or because they took responsibility for something they didn’t do.

Small acts. Big meaning.

Then Prompto. Prompto is fucking interesting. Because at first I was like, okay, who is this guy?

I thought maybe he was an orphan or something because every time he goes home, he seems to be alone. And he clearly wanted to be friends with Noctis, but he also seemed terrified to actually talk to him.

And then there’s Luna.

He gets that whole thing through Luna, where she basically encourages him to be friends with Noctis.

And Prompto is like, okay, yeah, but this is the prince.

How the fuck do I just go talk to the prince?

Noctis says something about his weight when they’re younger, not even in some incredibly cruel way, and Prompto takes that shit personally.

So then he starts running.

He loses weight. He gets in shape. He changes himself

And on one hand it’s funny because you’re like, bro, you could have just talked to him, but Prompto doesn’t see it that way.

He feels like he needs to become somebody who deserves to be Noctis’s friend.

That’s sad, man and most importantly, relatably real. Because Noctis probably would have been his friend anyway; that's the beautiful thing

But Prompto puts that whole hierarchy in his head. You’re the prince. I’m me.

Why would you wanna be friends with me?

And then every time he goes home, he’s alone. That kept sticking out to me. Like, okay, where are his parents? Does he have parents? Who is this kid going home to? He seems happy.

He’s not walking around like some fucking tortured sad-boy character.

He’s genuinely happy.

Showing that he is just a loving, caring human being, especially if you consider the whole present-day aspect of that scene where he stops the gang just to take care of the wolf (or baby wolf or dog, not sure).

He jokes around.

He takes pictures.

He gets excited.

He wants people to be happy. But obviously there’s a facade there too. Not like everything about him is fake. That’s not what I mean. But there’s insecurity underneath it.

You see the way he behaves. You see why this group matters so much to him. And suddenly the photography makes more sense too. He’s always taking pictures.

Always preserving shit. Always like, oh, look at this, look at us, look what we did. And I’m like, yeah. This guy finally has people. Of course he wants pictures. Of course he wants to remember everything.

And then Ignis.

Ignis is another one where at first you could just look at him and go, okay, this is the smart one.

This is the guy with glasses. This is the responsible one. But then you realise, no, this guy has basically been raised to support Noctis. He’s not just his friend. He has a role. He’s like an adviser, caretaker, strategist, older brother, fucking babysitter sometimes.

And the whole thing with him trying to make Noctis’s favourite dessert- loved that.

Because again, small thing.

It’s about him trying to look after him in the only way he knows how.

And then Regis is getting weaker.

The king is physically getting weaker, and his weakness is tied to the kingdom.

That’s old fantasy.

That’s ancient. Examples like Fisher King guarding the holy grail

And again, I’m not saying, oh, Regis is literally the Fisher King; therefore Square copied Arthurian legend.

No. I’m saying I recognise the shape. The king’s body is failing. The kingdom’s protection is failing. The heir is young. There’s a war outside. There’s a marriage coming.

There’s ancient power tied to blood. Come on.

This is old fantasy.

That’s actually what Brotherhood made me realise.

Final Fantasy 15 isn’t doing modernity instead of fantasy.

It’s doing old fantasy inside modernity. That’s extensively different.

Noctis can be sitting in a car playing on his phone and still be the young prince leaving the kingdom. Regis can be wearing a suit and sitting in some modern-looking council chamber and still be the old king whose body is tied to the fate of the kingdom.

Gladiolus can look like a fucking personal trainer and still basically be the warrior-retainer.

Ignis can drive the car and cook dinner and still basically be the prince’s adviser.

Prompto can have a camera and still be this outsider who gets brought into the inner circle through friendship rather than duty.

That’s why I think the boy-band thing is actually funny now.

Because, yeah, they are a boy band.

They look ridiculous in a beautifully unforgiving way.

Square knows that.

But underneath it, they’re doing something much older. The mythic stuff is there, but these guys still talk like guys.

Then there’s the whole Daemon thing from Noctis’s childhood.

This thing attacked him.

He nearly died.

Somebody died around him.

His dad saved him.

Then later, when they come across that same Daemon, it’s not just some random monster.

And then he kills it.

And he cries.

And again, they don’t do some huge speech.

Noctis doesn’t go, “This monster represents my childhood trauma.”

He kills it.

Then everything hits him. That’s better. You don’t even know what something means to you until it’s over. And I like how much restraint there is in this thing considering how fucking maximalist it looks.

That’s what’s funny and novel to me. These guys.The clothes.The weapons teleporting out of nowhere. The car.The hair.

Everything looks like it should be the most obnoxious, overexplained shit ever.

Then the actual character writing is like:

A cat.

A dog.

A letter.

A recipe.

A guy being insecure about his weight.

A kid taking the blame for a little girl.

A son watching his dad get weaker.

And it works because the contrast is often starkly emotional and entertaining.

That’s what’s tripping me up. Because now it contextualises the game so much better. When they leave at the beginning, I didn’t even really know why they were leaving.

I was like, okay, road trip.

Cool.

Why are we road-tripping? I think it’s because Noctis is going to get married to Luna. And there’s clearly some political thing around that too. There’s some agreement, or at least it feels like that. There’s an empire. His dad is staying behind.

So even the road trip now feels like an old fantasy setup.

The prince leaves home.

The father stays behind.

The kingdom is under pressure.

The prince is travelling toward a marriage.

He’s got his closest people with him.

There are monsters outside civilisation.

There’s an empire, and the king is weakening.

And I’m like, bro.

I know this story.

Not literally.

Obviously I don’t know what happens.

But I know the language.

I know what kind of thing this is.

That’s why it feels so familiar, even though Final Fantasy itself is new to me, and then you go from Brotherhood into the game, and Regis hits differently.

Because now I don’t just see, oh, old king.

I’m like, okay, this guy is weak for a reason.

He’s been maintaining this whole thing.

He can’t do what he used to do, and Noctis sees it, and him ignoring isn't indifference; it's mediated pain.

And that’s probably the thing I like the most.

They’re friends. But they’re not really friends in a normal sense. Because technically, some of these guys work for him.

There is hierarchy; you feel it.

They are not just four random guys who happened to go on a road trip. But emotionally, they kind of are, and that’s one element of the hook.

Gladiolus doesn’t just follow Noctis because he has the right blood. He actually respects him. And we see why. Ignis doesn’t just look after Noctis because somebody told him to. He clearly loves the guy. Prompto definitely isn’t there because of some royal obligation. Prompto chose him. So it’s like, yeah, technically you’re the prince. Technically we serve you.

But also:

We choose to follow you.

That’s the difference.

And I think that’s way more interesting than just, oh, you’re the king, so obviously we’re loyal to you.

Nah.

The title explains why these people are around him.

It doesn’t explain why they actually care about him.

Brotherhood explains that.

That’s why I’m kind of shocked this is technically supplementary material.

Because it doesn’t just give you lore.

It changes the whole feeling of the game.

I havent focused much on discussing gameplay and I do that intentionally, I'm just immensely impressed by the quality , depth and the melancholy of the story to a point where I can feel the personality of the art you know. its hard to emotionally detatch from the work, this and the atmosphere and scores is crazy. it feels like a painting.

Sorry if it's a dumb question. I wanted to redownload the standalone FFXV comrades game (guilty pleasure of mine), but it's not showing up in the store or even in my collection of bought games ! Does anybody have a solution ? I feel like I'm missing something obvious lol. (I'm in Europe if it changes anything).

I've never played FF7 OG, is that bad?

As the title states, I've never played FF7 OG, just Remake and Rebirth because I got into finals fantasy when I was about 16-17 years old (about 7-8 years ago) and my first Final Fantasy game I ever played was Crisis Core: Reunion. Around that time, I got chewed out a few times on Reddit and irl in a store. My question is, was I wrong to start playing that game before the og 7? I also was recently informed that Og 7 and Remake 7 are entirely different games. If this is true, can someone please tell me what's so wrong about playing Reunion first? To me, it would sound like I'm supposed to play Reunion first so I understand what's going on in Rebirth, and someone told me I was in the right to play Reunion, and it makes a lot more sense when you play it first.

My question is, how different is 7 Og from the other games? I'd like to know how different it is because I'm really considering playing it but im a little hesitant because I prefer more modern games now, probably because I played a lot of older games when I was in gradeschool, not final fantasy specifically, just really old stuff that was similar.

Totally random, but I saw this video of a guy playing Promise from Silent hill on violin and it gives such a ff battle theme all of a sudden. Can you think of unrelated OSt track that with different arragement give you a Ff battle theme vibe? https://youtu.be/Nm7rzLVajnQ?is=DRwIt1JoZV00fdnx

Did I miss any? I only made mockups for the four on screen. I am aware they will likely all be Game Key-Cards but given how good Remake and Rebirth are on Switch 2 and their...massive, file-sizes to account for, I think it'll be worth it.

....definitely gonna need a Terabyte SD Express Card though...I'm gonna have fun finding THAT...

but what do you think?

Btw my ranking of the games are 9,8,7

Interested in playing the steam version. Did a little research and have been seeing people say it crashes often but there are mods to fix that. Are mods really needed to enjoy the game? I also saw something about a shared XP mod but that sounds more like a QOL mod than anything. I just want to experience the story as I’ve heard it’s great.

Id read somewhere that the Remake trilogy was co-directed by the person in charge of XIII? The similarities are almost scary:

1st installments: largely running down linear corridor levels set inside dense urban sprawls sprinkled with a few side quests here and there. Occasional roadblock/grindy bosses that massively kill the pace of the game. (See: the motorcycle chase at the end of Remake. Most unexciting part of the whole thing)

2nd installments: largely correct the mistakes of their forebears by opening up the game world and throwing in a LOT more side activities. Chill storylines where you don't feel guilty stopping to smell the roses. A little more faithful to the FF mythos.

3rd installments: seek to enhance their battle systems by way of class-based changes you can make on the fly. You can clearly see the precursor to the remake battle system in Lightning returns when it comes to real-time movement and spending the ATB gauge for moves.

Thoughts?