Best: VI, the ps1 era is limited by a ton of awful characters...o we all wanted to play with Zell?  Cloud....cloud blows.  He is a space cadet.  7 is a good game, but entirely over rated and clouded by nostalgia.  8 has great elements...and loses steam at the end (a common theme in ff games from 8 on...never finished…

Kefka is gonna build a monument to non-existence and he’s gonna make the Espers pay for it! 

Thank you!

i just purchased the game and all xpacs for 35 bucks. its a slog in the beginning. Your comment makes me think it gets better?

OMG that laugh. I should make that my text message notification sound. That’s a great analysis you just wrote.

I love as well that for the first half of the game you have a fairly generic evil emperor as the central antagonist, and then Kefka is like the comic relief henchman. But then Kefka gets gradually more dangerous and he ends up being like Starscream. But then Kefka ends up literally destroying the world and declares…

I declare this objectively correct

I recently replayed it and it holds up. It’s a great story and the fact the heroes lose at one point and the world gets destroyed is a pretty ballsy move.

FFVI is a) great and b) a good analogy for politics these days, with authoritarian madman clowns being elected all over the globe.

Best: IX. It’s the culmination of the PS1 era where Squaresoft was at its most creative high. It’s fun and whimsical in a way that Final Fantasy games apparently are no longer allowed to be since they’re now determined to solely be the fever-dream of a 13 year old edgelord.

Worst: All of modern day Final Fantasy. It’s…

At some point, someone in this comment section needs to bring up Mystic Quest, and I’m up to the job.

I don’t hate Mystic Quest, although I wouldn’t blame people for putting it on their personal “Worst” list. It’s probably “Weirdest” to me. The whole idea of, “The USA doesn’t get us! Let’s make them a game-spanning…

I thought Advent Children should have been the wide theatrical release instead of Spirits Within. At the height of 7's popularity it would have put more butts in the seats, and we likely would have seen more theatrical releases.

I’m sure part of it is nostalgia, but VI really feels like a timeless masterpiece to me. The tech is old, but the opera scene is still sensational, the characters are still incredibly written, Ultros the awesome octopus is still hysterical and Kefka is still a perfect villain.

Spirits Within very much captured the “uncanny valley” feeling on the big screen for the first time with its CGI humans. For all the unforgivably terrible CGI of the early 2000's it deserves credit for going all in on creepy CGI, even if the story makes it feel like a feature length video game cut scene.

Why do you hate science?

Maybe they should just find him a dark-colored shirt.

Also, they are living in Canada, not the U.S.

They’ve been married just a couple years and Harry has already engineered an historic break from the royal family. That isn’t doing nothing.

Joan, maybe it’s better that you leave Royals coverage to Kelly Faircloth. You clearly loathe them, and I come to Jez for snark, not “loathing! unadulterated loathing!”