As said in title

I'm playing through every mainline Final Fantasy from I to X for the first time. Bought the Pixel Remaster Bundle and already beat FF I and II.

What should I expect along the way? Any tips, recommendations, common problems, things I shouldn't miss, or anything else I should know? Also should i bother take a look in any other spin-off later?

If yall interested you can play it here:

https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

Started the whole series after enjoying part one of the 7 remake and have been making steady progress. 4 is by FAR my favorite so far but I finally hit my first wall with 6 where I'm just not enjoying it at all a few hours in. Just curious what about it makes it so high on people's lists maybe I'm missing something or have yet to find the systems that make it great. So far not for me tbh.

What made me love the FF franchise so much is that a lot of the in-game stuff was kept somewhat secret.

Most of the old games you had to look up guides the first few times on what objectives to do to acquire the best weapons, summons and secret bossfights that would flat out destroy you because you suddenly bumped into them while exploring.

Those were the good old days, the game felt rewarding for doing this absolutely ridiculous secret questline that was barely explained within the game. And even in your 4-5 playthrough you would stumble upon secrets that you haven't before.

That is what makes a great Final Fantasy game for me. Not the bullshit they make today where all of it is tied to the story or a dumbass stationary combat simulator. It is lazy and uninterested, makes the game boring post story and non-replayable.

Revelation better bring back some of the old charm, I want to hunt down my summons in the overworld and find them lurking in different areas. I wanna get blasted to shit from the Emerald Weapon because he suddenly jumps you while underwater, but by looking at the trailer it seems he will be stationary, just waiting in one place until you show up. Make me grind for the ultimate weapons instead of just hand them to me during story mode or a random shop.

Come on Square, you have the formula, stop being lazy and get to work!

what do you think if Final Fantasy II got a remake on the same vein as Stranger of Paradise? not some weird and tacky prequel like they did for Final Fantasy I, it's just Final Fantasy II straight up

the dark and edgy tone is there, the length aren't too long, the gameplay definitely can be adjusted especially now that there's soo many refferences from modern games like Elder Scrolls games, they can approach the open zones for the exploration thanks to XVI, and multiple party members

out of all classic Final Fantasy (NES one specifically), felt like FF2 has the most interesting way to remade and adapt, cause the narrative is extremely straight forward and yet flexible that doing much more creative liberty are extremely beneficial for them

(altho personally having a HD-2D Remake for the classics are the better approach, but it's an interesting topic of discussion nonetheless)

For the longest single player adventure game that’s not a true open world… cause damn I feel like I’ve been playing it for months! lol

Don’t get me wrong I’m really loving the story and the boss fight or top notch DBZ meets GODZILLA but this a long game.. that said I am a relative FF noobie. I’ve only played this game and I believe FF7 remake unless there’s another I’m forgetting.

The trailer itself is a big red flag

There are 6 of them for the first 6 FF games.

https://hobby-genki.com/en/final-fantasy/98534-final-fantasy-series-mini-melody-tv-6-pack-box-square-enix--4988601287937.html

When I went through this dungeon earlier, I took the middle path first without realizing what kind of terrible mistake I made. After taking the conveyor belt down I couldn't get back up no matter how hard I tried, so I finished the dungeon and right before going on blackjack I went back to get the chest. And now this very specific stair just happened to be broken. Can I save this (it's the only treasure in this dungeon I haven't collected)?

Important teachings from an Important adventurer.

I've seen it on Pinterest and I was wondering where it might be from (it's mostly likely ai ngl)

Okay, I need to get this out because I have to know if anyone feels the same way as I do about this and this feels like the best place to ask the question.

Am I the only one that absolutely hated Clive as a character? He was set up in trailers and marketing to be this super cool, rough and tough, can-turn-into-Ifrit badass, but when I played through the game he was mostly a crybaby. My wife and I STILL talk about how annoying he was as a character to this day and I played that game on release! I completely understand the tragedy of him losing his brother and all, but it felt like he never had any growth as a character in regard to overcoming the trauma.

I make the comparison to Noctis all the time. Noctis grew tremendously as a character throughout FF XV and he lost absolutely everything except his friends. He lost his home, his family, his love, all of it. He was a crybaby too for the first half, it was actually pointed out how much of a crybaby he was being when Gladiolus told him to quit whining so much and I loved it! He got his act together and became one of my favorite FF characters.

A scene for Clive that made me audibly sigh when we were playing through it was when they went back to his home town and he was sleeping in the barn with Jill. Clive learns not long before that that he may have been the one that killed Joshua and is getting all sad about it again and Jill starts talking about how she killed a bunch of people too being a dominant and they're both getting all sad again. I'll grant some of these scenes their tragedies, but with Clive it's SO often it just got old. And he never gets past it! Joshua just shows back up and he's like "Oh, I guess there's nothing to be sad over" and then Joshua dies and he freaks out again!

Maybe I'm misremembering some huge growth moment he was supposed to have or something idk, but even while watching a lot of the cutscenes I was getting so annoyed with his self loathing and self pity that I was having to make myself finish the game in hopes there'd be some kind of big moment at the end, and there really wasn't. He just sacrifices himself at the end which felt so extremely unsatisfying to me. To give the game credit, it set a new bar for cinema. The dominant fights were absolutely incredible and the combat was very spectacular although a bit too simple in my opinion. Regardless, was I the only one who felt that way about Clive? Any one else?

If you disagree, what do you like about Clive?

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I’m at the first vaargas fight and it’s wanting me to do blitz combo to finish him off… I’m on a delta emulator and I’m unable to enter the combo.. is there something I’m doing wrong or is it a bug??

Titled: Legacy of the Buster Sword (A Final Fantasy VII Tribute)

It’s kinda meant to show my appreciation to the franchise as a tribute of sorts

Wattpad link: https://www.wattpad.com/1654877616-legacy-of-the-buster-sword-a-final-fantasy-vii

Ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/91805886

I hope you all enjoy and let me know what you think!

Wet noodle Omnislash

It's all in Japanese but he managed to make it this weak lol. Also check the channel for his wacky-ass FF8 playthroughs. Great stuffs if you understand Japanese.

I know I sound like I will simp for Madam M, which I admit, I'm gay af for her, but honestly playing the OG, outside of the Avalanche trio having more personality, the addition of her and Leslie added a lot more intrigue in Corneo's part imo, outside of M being hot as hell, I like Leslie's conflict and revenge, and it's more than deserving it (I joke about him looking like a Pokémon Trainer, but poor boy deserves a hug)

1. Why Barnabas kidnapped Jill? What did ultima tell barnabas to do? if it was to kill clive's friends, then why Barnabas kidnapped jill and not kill them to "sever" the bonds of clive and the others, in order to weaken clive's will to take over him? you see the contradiction?
2. Why did Barnabas bring the orcs from Waloed to Drake’s Fang in the first place? What exactly was their purpose there, especially since Hugo was already at Drake’s Fang?

thanks!