They are all different enough that you can go with whatever one interests you. No game in the series can really give you any accurate impression on any other game in the series. Final Fantasy is more of an anthology series of different rpgs made by the same company.
Now I will bring up a problem with the sprite based entries you expressed interest in and others have been suggesting that has continued to urk me. The problem with your 3, 4, 5, and 6 is that they have never made a good definitive version of those games. You always losing something when you choose to play any version of these games.
Let's take FFVI as an example.
The original English SNES version is fairly censored and the translation would not pass muster by modern standards. It is also annoying that the translation messes so many names of things that are shared between the games. Also the game is glitchy and buggy as hell. An entire stat just does not function at all. If you aren't careful you could entirely glitch your game to oblivion.
Then you get the PlayStation version which fixes some of the problems with the original but adds super long load times.
The game boy advanced version is the closest thing you're going to find to the definite version. It finishes fixing about everything adds some content and restores some cut content. BUT it absolutely butchers the soundtrack and sound effects which is kind of a big deal for one of the most highly praised soundtracks in gaming. Also it was a very late GBA game and is the hardest version to find.
The PC port and mobile ports are one and the same for all the snes era games. In which they add more stuff. But they choose to 'update' the sprites to a more 'modern look' that is eye bleeding terrible and absolutely baffling. These things were coming out as the retro sprite based look was back in vogue and you have the most universally praised games of that style and you choose to toss all of that out.
All the PS and PS3/360 era games have PC versions that are more or less the same as the originals with some graphical and translation touch ups. They are easily a definite version you can point to. The PS2 (X/X-II followed by XII soon) HD remakes are even better with great graphic overhauls and the international version changes never seen stateside so they barely so any of their age outside of animation.
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