Final Fantasy Forum

"I think final fantasy seven is the best fantasy game, well in my opinion. I just wanted to compliment this game. And if you've seen the movie, tell me what you think, and what makes you think that way. It's a really interesting topic, and the storyline for all of this was simply extravagant. Thanks. "

"AgentJ said:

"Hrm, they havent even released FFXIII and versus XIII, so how do you know they are awesome?

Also, I feel like II, IV, V, and VI are the pinnacle of the series

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I like to think that IV-X were the golden years of Final Fantasy, but if you wanted to get really picky, VI-IX."

"Crisis Core's amazing story outdid it's terrible gameplay. The game actually made me cry at the end and that's the only game to ever do that."

"You specifically seem to leave out all of my favorite FF games, like IX and VI. Anyways, I thought Advent Children was absolutely awful. Yeah, the CG was great, but it didn't make up for the cheesy, shallow, boring story behind it all. Not to mention, they absolutely ruined one of my favorite parts of FFVII by bringing Rufus back to life. In my own little world, Advent Children is somewhere with MGS4 in the realm of "not actually canon." "

"By itself, I found the story of Final Fantasy VII to be subpar, particularly compared to Final Fantasy IV, VI, and VIII.  Part of that has to due with the U.S. version's shoddy English translation I imagine, but nothing in the game really grabbed me as much as moments in other games in the series have.On the other hand, I do appreciate Square Enix's efforts in extending the fiction through the new games and films.  It's helped to add more depth to the characters and context to the universe.  Before the Compilation of FFVII began, Zack was just some guy who happened to be a SOLDIER that we really didn't know much about outside of Cloud's extremely garbled memories.  Now, with Crisis Core especially, his background has been filled out and he has a distinctive personality that differentiates him from Cloud.So while one could make the argument that Square Enix is milking a cash cow by putting out all of these FFVII spinoffs, prequels and sequels, as a whole, they do improve upon the original game's storyline.  "