RANKING Every Final Fantasy! (Yes even THAT Game)

[@DreamcastGuy]

I want to send a special thank you to the people who suggested this. It was a freaking blast recording this and it is all because of YOUR comments!!!

[@nawafaj93]

DreamcastGuy I hope that you make more videos like this for other franchises in the future

[@SoloEcho]

Ffbe has all the stats for every ff characters

[@kendonl.taylor5111]

@DreamcastGuy Look's like your one of the few who defended Final Fantasy IIV: Dirge of Cerberus.

[@KdosdaHegen]

Have you played all Silent Hill games as well?

[@fivestringpat]

I played ffxv:pocket on switch and just went to KZbin for the cutscenes, and it was a good time!

[@brainboy109]

Your description of X-2 makes no sense at all. That's not the battle system. You don't dance to unlock classes... not even close.

[@loganeby947]

Yea wtf. 13-1 is by far the best one

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

@@loganeby947 13-2 is pretty great but the story is a mess, gameplay and enviroments are really fun, but story and character development and production values is all amazing in 13-1 and there are some really good boss battles and end game hunts on pulse, so i actually agree 13-1 is the best altho i wish it took the training wheels off the battle system faster, and 13-2 is a close 2nd. lightning returns was fun but very experimental and it feels a bit more low budget and rough around the edges. but imo the 13 trilogy is really great overall. do i like more than any of the ps1 final fantasys? definitely not, but i think they're consistently 8.5/10's so for me 13 and 13-2 would be A tier and lightning returns would be B

[@loganeby947]

@@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu 100% agree. I have a soft spot for 13-1 but 10 is the best imo

[@kienzwong1539]

@@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu not just the game and story. By far they also have a good ost as well.

[@ZunaZurugi]

@@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu My Favorite os 13-2 and its mostly because of the Gameplay. I liked some charakters but it made no sense that the game even existed, 13 endet perfectly thats it and then they redconned it to make it happen... welp still prefer it gameplaywise :D

[@aaronkemp7789]

The final boss battles in FFX are incredible.

[@stevendevries1368]

and then you can still beat the dark aeons and and the calm lands boss in the remake

[@boiiiiiii5741]

their r so many things to do in ffx, i dunno why people rank it lower than 9 + the ending oofffffff

[@Kairidabairi]

@@boiiiiiii5741 i personally cant stand almost every aspect of FFX. I hate the way the battles are, i hate how the leveling works, i hate the archetype crap for each battle (you know, every enemy is killable easily by certain characters aside from bosses and what not) However! The OST is phenomenal and the Story is one of the greatest stories ever told.

[@gman2015z]

FF9 is still my favorite. Started playing again on Xbox Games Pass. There was so much to do and glad Square went back to its roots.

[@krusenator123]

Ya but ultimate weapons are based on RNG bullcrap and the battle system is a snoozefest and ridiculously slow and trance being random sucks balls and the characters weren't even that memorable.

[@charsquatch600]

@@krusenator123 the characters are all memorable, none of the ultimate weapons are RNG

[@Zendel93]

@@krusenator123 do you like the equip-unequip same things to the three party members of 7? Or the boring asf catch them all magic stupid system of 8?

[@sander87a28]

FFIX will be fo EVER a S+ :)

[@cigh7445]

Enix are not the original Square team who created the original Final Fantasies by the way. After Square bankrupted themselves Enix bought them out. The original team stayed on to work on FFX but there was an exodus of the main members of the Squaresoft team after that. Enix have the brand but they don't share Squares roots

[@sarkaztik3228]

You... do not dance to unlock new classes in FF X-2. I don't even feel like this is a logical mistake if you played the game.

[@LionLostInTime]

Judging from this I'm starting to think he didn't play XIII either Or V as he put V below III while V improved on everything III had to offer

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

@@LionLostInTime I mean he could of played these games almost 20 years ago

[@qud3913]

@@LionLostInTime Dude, there are like 30 FF games and each one requires you to put 50+ hours in it with each one having different mechanics different leveling system different world different everything.. And you're asking him to remember every detail of the mechanics in a relaxed 30m video about 30 FF games? You're asking the impossible.

[@LionLostInTime]

@@qud3913 it really isnt difficult task at all to remember the core mechanics of a game, especialy for a self proclaimed ''big fan of the series''

[@qud3913]

@@LionLostInTime Yeah, no biggie. Right..

[@trevorscheer7544]

"Final Fantasy is about giant worlds and fighting to save the universe. These mobile games aren't that." The story of Brave Exvius is exactly that.

[@nyarlathotep.mythos]

Yes, but to maintain it, you either pay or it’s a long, long, long grind intermediately playing it. Phone games are killing games. If it were an offline cellphone game, I’d be right behind you, but it’s not and while it’s the best phone game, it’s still trash.

[@trevorscheer7544]

@@nyarlathotep.mythos you don't have to pay anything to play the story.

[@nyarlathotep.mythos]

Trevor Scheer that’s why I said “...or it’s a long, long grind” playing it *intermittently. I definitely don’t support phone games, especially ones that suck up as much data as that one, it’s unreal.

[@trevorscheer7544]

@@nyarlathotep.mythos It's not a long long grind to beat the story. Story fights are stupidly easy.

[@nyarlathotep.mythos]

Alienxfb14 I’m ok with grinds, but you played for two and a half years... did you ever beat it? Also, were you limited to play a certain amount each day based off of time you could play for free? I’m not arguing it’s not good, either (for a phone game that EATS data like Hannibal eats his enemies).

[@miloblaze1]

I honestly don't dislike many videos but your reasoning didn't really make sense to me man...

[@Murk_Wolfheart]

Same

[@4MonsterhunterStory]

He is biased and a lot and some of the stuff he said was plain out wrong LOL I disliked it too

[@adamplayz5929]

@@4MonsterhunterStory can you shut up for once you have a big mouth he has he’s opinion I think think you should shut up for once really

[@nyarlathotep.mythos]

AdamPlayz !!! They should shut up because he has an opinion? 🧐

[@bendakstarkiller3407]

He wasn’t consistent, I thought he took off points from 5 for being too grindy. But after hours of dodging lightning on the thunder plains he didn’t penalise 10? How he could put 3 over 5 is bizarre. 5 had way more character development the plot was ok but because I cared about the characters I was invested when galuf dies. 3 the characters were so bland and the plot was meh.

[@The-GCN]

X-2: "[...]dance to unlock new classes." Uh, no. Songstress is just one of several dresspheres. In order to get access to other classes/jobs, you need to obtain their specific dressphere (Lady Luck is infuriating, because you need to win the Sphere Break Tournament in Chapter 3) and equip it onto your Garment Grid. Depending on your grid setup (and which grid you have), you can Spherechange in battle to another equipped class. I love the game, though I do still jokingly describe it to people as "Final Fantasy: Charlie's Angels Edition". I personally also rank it higher than VII.

[@purpledawn2727]

Yeah... what is he talking about? It makes it sound like he never even played the game.

[@deneirojones7754]

Charlie's Angels? That was full on Sailor Moon 😂

[@The-GCN]

lol well, the spherechange sequences anyway.

[@purpledawn2727]

@@deneirojones7754 I can definently see both charlies angels and sailor moon in ffx2

[@orbitaldragon]

My favorite job in that game was Berserker. I really enjoyed the job system in this game. My only grip is I wish their ultimate transformations were based off their current job and not static.

[@rupe82]

I'm playing through FF6 for the first time atm and the soundtrack is sooo good.

[@davecross4493]

It’s the best final fantasy, story wise, in my opinion. There are no low points. Kefka is amazing. And the last bit of the game is great. Won’t spoil it if you aren’t there yet.

[@Blazfemur]

No spoilers, but kefka accomplished something no other villain (except maybe lavos) has ever accomplished. That makes him probably the most successful villain in the ff series

[@dow353]

Spectre don't feed cid the bad fish

[@ashermerkabah]

@Wenceslao Futanaki While I feel FF6 is my favorite FF game, I would argue that the others can be considered art as well. All the little details in the pre-rendered areas, no matter how small, were really neat and made FF7 feel cozy when I played it for the first time in 97. The steam coming from grates, the wires that popped and crackled here and there, and some of these areas you spent literally maybe 3 or 4 seconds in, but those details were there.

[@_RizkyGumilar_]

@Wenceslao Futanaki i agree i kinda wish square would remake VI and IX and stop making everything about 7

[@josenavarro1054]

Great list man! I think the original FF tactics deserves an S+. It really belongs up there with the best of the golden era while being so much darker and different, the DS tactics games are really good but they don't have the same brilliant writing, aesthetic and characters in my opinion and the judge system can be very annoying sometimes.

[@Lord_Deimos]

A friend gave me Dirge of Cerberus because he hated its guts. It still is one of my ps2 favourites.

[@Demokaze]

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[@the13thjoker]

The shooting mechanic is bad. Overall is not bad game but far from great

[@samthemadman5000]

Underrated I think... it's not trash... I'd of gave it an A maybe a B

[@stevenmorton2059]

The reason Dirge of Cerberus was hated on was because fans expected another FF7, but got instead a rather average shooter. DoC is actually not a bad game if you take it for what it is.

[@randomenvelope]

Sounds like a good friend, instead of throwing it away or selling it, offering it to a friend and hell maybe will be a hidden gem for them. Just how many like ff13 and I dont

[@calebdalton7227]

You can definitely tell which games you've hardly touched, if at all lol

[@pewpewzang6595]

indeed

[@aidanholden4145]

Definitely with FFXIV as it's on the 3rd expansion after A Realm Reborn

[@StaarRawwr]

Aidan Holden Well I think he was just separating 1.0 and everything after 2.0.. It's still FFXIV, but the "base game" you have to buy in order to play any of the expansions is ARR. I think SE really wanted to advertise it as it's own new game kind of :p

[@Clouds12012]

@Caleb Dalton Omg that is 100% true!! You can tell he both assumed half the things he said and barely played the other half and genuinely played maybe 10% of this list but didnt remember all the merits of why they are in their tiers lol what a joke

[@RadimuxCisco]

He never played any of the mobile games... I dont think thats bad and is fair because is his opinion but saying that they are not about the big adventure is wrong in some cases.

[@electricalbatross5797]

17:38 "This should not have been a trilogy." - Rumor has it, FF13 wasn't supposed to be. They had to break up the games because of the limitations of the Xbox 360. The PS3, using Blu-ray disks, had plenty of space. It's either that, or FF13 was probably just going to be longer with better pacing. It's easy to hate on FF13 when you compare it to other games in the series, but if you actually look at it as a standalone game and focus on its strengths, it's a really enjoyable experience.

[@NaliaDanger]

FFXII doesn't have a main character? Balthier tells you that he's the leading man when you meet him!

[@johns783]

*cough* Ashe *cough*

[@EvanFarshadow]

Balthier is the leading man for sure

[@Ndoelicious]

And yet it's supposed to be Basch. Damn, actually if you remove/change Vaan and Penelo, it could be very well the best FF

[@cam9759]

My argument for 12 is that if it started at the castle break in from balthier's POV it would be alot better.

[@avnn.1851]

Don’t listen to Ondores lies!

[@Nintondoxcore]

Your description for 10-2’s system was completely wrong. What game were you even playing?

[@pewpewzang6595]

he completely missed some games

[@lolnou7262]

X-2 gave people the ending they really deserved and wanted but I honestly cried after 10 so much that it hurt me

[@17tom31]

@@lolnou7262 yes the ending everyone deserved bring back tidus so she can dump him later and basically call him useless baggage great ending right there

[@davidwilson4446]

@@17tom31 it’s safe to assume that until they come up with a x-3 that continues from the events of the audio drama… it’s better to take the audio drama as a proof of concept that may or may not be canon or retconned at a moments notice… that and it’s apparently not as bad of a travesty as I thought it would be… at the bare minimum tidus and Yuna get back together by the end of the audio drama so while yes it still is horrible at least the relationship doesn’t permanently end so that’s at least one good thing lol

[@sindelio]

Respect for those S+ ratings, totally agree! FF IX is so underrated, it's a masterpiece!

[@rogthepirate4593]

It truly is. IX was my first FF, I blew like 200 hours on it as a kid, getting absolutely everything (well, except Excalibur II, I'm not a masochist). X is a close second for me tho, I dunno, ther's just something special about it.

[@krusenator123]

If 9 had a better battle system it would be better

[@pentexsucks43]

IX is not underrated lol

[@susmagician3683]

Saying "ix is underated" is like saying "a red apple is turquoise and has fins", ix is what many consider one of the, if not the, best final fantasy game.

[@shrediknight4738]

It's slept on.

[@MTTT19]

I agree that Final Fantasy X-2 is underrated. Is it as good as Final Fantasy X? No. Is it fun to play? Yes!

[@steveco1800]

It is fun when you just go with it. The change in tone/style is jarring at first but enjoyed the gameplay and revisiting places.

[@wombochrombo3610]

FFX 2 is one of my favorites tbh. I hated it at first, but after I beat I started to love it.

[@I_Am_The_Social_Reject]

Don't care if it's fun. It's painful to watch

[@wombochrombo3610]

@@I_Am_The_Social_Reject The story isn't that bad...

[@PokeRetroFan]

X-2 game play is better than x period especially the battles. X has a better story tho but x-2 is good

[@faidou9954]

FF 8 is my favorite don't @ me.

[@Sairiui]

FF 2 is my favorite don't @ me.

[@bryanthompson973]

I would never @ you for FF8 love. It is a great game. No @ from me.

[@ETFbvbAA]

mine too!

[@elijahbradley704]

Haven't played it yet but can't wait too.

[@marianelatovar9500]

Never!! It's my absolute favorite, and my favorite game in the whole history of video games.

[@LEE-337]

*You not only put XIII-2 on the same tier as Crisis Core, AND you didn't even know what Crisis Core's cover looks like. Therefore I don't even think you've played Crisis Core.* *It's your opinion, but... you are wrong.*

[@aistauna8083]

Yea imo Crisis Core is definitely one of the best.

[@vonclaren1]

Agreed. One of the few times a subjective opinion was objectively wrong.

[@kpp28]

Xiii-2 should be above crisis core

[@ResurgentRaven]

Crisis Core deserves A tier. Not that I think it's bad, actually it's my favorite, but I feel like the game had a lack of content. Sure you have the main story and the missions as well as the new game carries over so you keep all your levels and materia. But I just felt that story wise there could've been more, especially since we get Zack shown as a 2nd class soldier. Also, I haven't played "Before Crisis" so I don't know if it sheds more light on Zack's journey to rise through the ranks of soldier, but I don't really care if it was cause it wouldn't help Crisis Core's case if it was. Also, I hated Crystal Chronicles on GC. Honestly think it deserved C rank at best. (Get off Crystal Chronicles, there's only room for one FFCC, and it's Crisis Core!)

[@elwinbu5926]

crisis core mechanic is bad but the story is good

[@nicholasaguirre1661]

>Says mobile games are trash >Proceeds to put Before Crisis at an A Also, my brother is obsessed with Dissidia Opera Omnia. That one is pretty good.

[@66tobi66]

There are Trash Mobile Games out there, but Before Crisis has a good story, And Dissidia Opera Omnia is fun...though I really wish Mobile games would stop putting Auto attack systems in their games. its what spoiled Both Opera Omnia and Final Fantasy Mobius for me...

[@66tobi66]

@@shadow4040 its one of those things where its there and I cant stop using it...but yea, if you turn it off it makes the game play more involving.

[@jaushabakkas8127]

@@66tobi66 well, not really, the problem with mobile game is the platform itself, if it's takes too much use it will get heat, and procced to be broken, also, online game with no auto = phone killer, ex: sdorica is one game that is no way to be auto, there is no button to do so, and the game can't be implement that, you need at least 2-3 hours a days to actually done everything you need to be doing on that game, that said, auto system might sound very boring or make the game underdelevopt, but that is because they creator understand the limitation of the platform itself. maybe later on in the futre, where phones will be lot stornger and can be stand par on par with pc and that auto game will no matter no more. we actually going to that direction honestly

[@MemoiriaGodElcrin]

@@66tobi66 Opera Omnia Auto-Attack sucks don't use it your party won't use skills in auto attack mode which will kill you in anything higher that level 70 matches

[@viviisthebest]

@@MemoiriaGodElcrin Exactly

[@LionLostInTime]

I'm sorry but V improved on everything III had to offer, how could you put it below III?

[@user-mq1ng6sj7b]

It would help a lot if he went in depth. I've completed 3 about 6 times now and i've played a couple hours of ff5. I feel like for me to have a "proper opinion" on the game i'd need more experience with it. But he did say 5 was really grindy. I only really needed to grind in 3 for my first two playthroughs and then afterwards, some good strategies and utilizing items properly allowed me to kill a lot of enemies and bosses fairly easily (for reference, every playthrough was a "all bosses" playthrough aside from iron giant. And I was playing the version on the ds). If he's right and 5 is a grindy game, then 5 probably isn't a complete improvement to 3. It also probably helped that 3 has had a 3d remake

[@LionLostInTime]

@@user-mq1ng6sj7b its bee some time since i played V but i dont remember it as ''grindy'' i remember beating the final boss while underleveled

[@f937r]

Except when comparing it to FFIII DS. V is outdated, the story is non-existent, the characters are so tropey they go beyond being good and back into bad. I would class V below II. The only thing it has going for it is the job system; everything else was a step backwards.

[@kael070]

I found FF5 kinda hard to play blind, the bosses were a bit strong imo, i still remember the trouble I had with the bomb fight that are actually 5-6 and they kepp ressing themselves, and my setup had like no aoe at all lol

[@superlombax1561]

f937r Better graphics doesn’t necessarily make it a better game though. And I’m sure not much was changed between FF3 DS and the original FF3 overall besides giving the characters canon names. Not to say that FF3 is better or worse. I still haven't finished it.

[@jmthemelomane1470]

100% agree with this. FF VII and FF IX have the best stories and characters of the franchise. Those games git you hooked right at the begining.

[@rayjohnnercacao3703]

*Says Mobile Games were trash* Opera Omnia: Am I a Joke to you? The flawed description of Dressphere System on FFX-2 just made it worse for this video. You don't dance just to get the ability, and that game is not "Just Dance" mechanic. Opera Omnia is a mobile game where it is close as the traditionals in Battle System, and it is game where characters were written better and allowed non-existent moments to happen like the interaction of Airship riders, everyone commenting about Cid, a lot knows about Gilgamesh, Auron was able to talk with Jecht, and the deceased FFX casts be able to know what happened to Spira in FFX-2.

[@crestofhonor2349]

Ray John Ner Cacao final fantasy dimensions is another one of those “mobile games” and it’s a traditional rpg. Although it costs money

[@bruhmomentamiright2898]

Chill out

[@stomingaben]

FF Dimensions is a really decent Final fantasy game

[@anthonydelfino6171]

I do really love the character interactions in Opera Omnia for sure. It's been great to get to see characters get to further develop their relationships with other characters in their game, and am looking forward to some other comedic moments as we meet more new characters, like whenever they decide to add Quinna and she meets Ignis, and hopefully some heartfelt moments, like if they decide to have Materia bring Braska into the world so he and Yuna can talk about her pilgrimage and how she finally beat Sin for good.

[@forklift6213]

The AI system you would build in 12 for your companions was amazing and should be used in more games today.

[@edwes66]

Final Fantasy V its soo underrated

[@TheMrGiannisgr]

Deserved so.

[@MichaelGarcia-fl7rz]

Someone didn't play some of these games you fumbled x-2 battle system 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Jschad]

@joemobumtwizzler ?

[@nateh1456]

@joemobumtwizzler Did you like FF7 remake?

[@blakbear6528]

@joemobumtwizzler 7/10 for me, because of the cringe anime story

[@Arkbennett]

There has always been a major “FF6 is the best one” camp. This isn’t anything new my dude.

[@SeraphSeph]

It feels like a lot of that id just a reaction to FF7 though. I don't see anyone rsndomly saying 6 is the best.

[@tarb1320]

@@SeraphSeph 7 is great but 6 and tactics are both better imo.

[@DrClawizdead]

I think VI is the best for similar reasons DreamcastGuy thinks VII is the best. It is the last great hand drawn Final Fantasy. Seven introduced 3D graphics and that caused the series to lose something in my opinion. Seven is an amazing technical achievement and a great game but six is the end of an era and it was an era I prefer over modern games.

[@SeraphSeph]

@@tarb1320 I really want to play 6 but id have to play it on my phone like a pleb.

[@mrtekbunny]

It's the camp of truth.

[@Alephosho]

"Chrlie's Angel, a terrible action movie..." First of all: How dare you.

[@superlombax1561]

Three months later and we still haven't heard the 'second of all'. Lol

[@zzz43344]

Meh, I'd take it or leave it.

[@tempestsquall5882]

It's such a great gaming experience though kupo! You should try it...

[@wakkasoblitzed7970]

Songstress Job system for x-2 where you dance to gain abilities? Dude did you play that game?

[@weglarz]

He clearly didn’t, like so many other people who call it trash.

[@jinkisaragi874]

@@weglarz The story is trash but everything else was a stepvup from 10 in every other aspect.

[@RantTime]

Couldn’t stand x2

[@PokeRetroFan]

Exactly a lot of jackasses and trolls. Ignore them

[@nigelfrancis7912]

@Kaiser Zephan dressspheres*

[@CaptainMauser]

Final Fantasy X is my favourite.....

[@Midnight_x_Sin]

Chris White correct answer

[@DirtCheapFU]

@@Midnight_x_Sin I was never sold on FFX personally. I still think its my worst FF experience. I felt like I lost the feeling of being in a huge world for better graphics. To go from FFVII to VIII to IX's world and then X. X made me feel like I was playing Jade Cocoon.

[@Midnight_x_Sin]

Ian-Devon Lewis i mean how was it a small world? There was so much lore in it, so many things to do. You’re talking about how small a world it was but name three other worlds, not including ff11 and ff14, that were bigger. If you don’t like it for other reasons than that’s okay. However ffx was not a small world by any degree, it’s one of the biggest in FF.

[@DirtCheapFU]

@@Midnight_x_Sin didn't say anything about small world so get off your feelings. But bigger worlds with more exploration... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9! and 12.

[@Midnight_x_Sin]

Ian-Devon Lewis so you’re saying that games that literally could not have more due to hardware limitations have more than ffx? That makes sense. At any rate, it’s okay for you to not like ffx it’s just not okay to state your opinion (ffx is a small world) as a fact. Ffxii, ffxv, are bigger than it. Ffvii, ffviii, and ffix are slightly smaller but not bigger than ffx. So again, you can dislike ffx but don’t state your opinions as facts.

[@ianwestc]

Giving Record Keeper an F is an absolute travesty. You just shouldn't have rated it at all if you weren't going to take it seriously.

[@ricosalvaje5802]

Final Fantasy 9 is probably the best of the series. The characters, story, gameplay, music and graphics are all amazing.

[@DS9TREK]

I agree. It's generally underrated imo

[@CDRW24]

@KellarJS 6 also had a great story

[@eclipse7217]

100% agreed. I thought FF7 was amazing, but 9 and 4 are the two that i really love

[@yungjroc5193]

100% i replayed it 5+ times by now compare to maybe 2x ea for X and VII

[@lolnou7262]

9 is honestly just so fucking good. The story is so compelling and freya is my BITCH

[@enlyte7450]

Final Fantasy X was freaking amazing! The love story was so good. Listening to the welcome to zanarkand still gives me chills as I recall Tidus saying listen to my story it may be our last chance. I think this game should've been a S+ as well, but that's the only change I would do for this list. FF7, FF9, FF6, FF4, and FFX are amazing.

[@rogthepirate4593]

I agree. Played X during my late-ish teens, and honestly, especially that love story kept me sane during some very emotionally difficult times. I'm really glad I had it, which is why I keep the original PS2 game around to this day, even though I haven't owned a PS2 in almost a decade lol

[@LordMalice6d9]

I do not buy the "love story" in FFX since it is between two characters who are teenagers and it is just puppy dog love. The way their roles switch throughout the course of the game mostly worked however. Yuna starts off the game willing to sacrifice herself for Spira, but Tidus takes Yuna's place as the sacrificial lamb in the latter half of FFX.

[@Force-Multiplier]

X IV and VII are my favorites in that order

[@infamousjustice7083]

I played X as a kid and never finished it. I finished it a few weeks ago and finished FFX-2 tonight. Now I’m trying to figure out which game to play next. I’m thinking maybe VIII, IX, or maybe even IV. I just need something to tide me over till XVI.

[@Force-Multiplier]

@@infamousjustice7083 my top 3 is X IV and VII so if you're up for some pixels then try IV its the essence of the franchise in its purest form (its super dated tho)

[@zikriwahyudi6229]

"ff9 the best final fantasy", you sir deserves my likes for that!

[@Roksana-gy1ek]

10/10 game. Ff9 and 10 are my S+

[@blacktigershearthstoneadve6905]

Somewhere around FF5-FF6 I told myself: "If he will not put FF9 on the first place (or at least into S+ tier), I'll just turn this video off immediately, because it essentially means that he has no clue what he is talking about". Zidane's broken will scene alone makes this game one the greatest ever created. Fortunately, it didn't happen and he has my respect for it.

[@thepowerofthegodhand7003]

9 is one of my favorite right next to 7

[@Killer_Kris7]

14:19 "I'm gonna give crisis core an A" Proceeded to pick up before crisis

[@mondayinflux1062]

yeh well i mean he did notice that an picked up crisis core later an gave it an A

[@Killer_Kris7]

@@mondayinflux1062 well I didn't know that I just saw it and commented on that

[@ZmenitBussler]

FF12 is my fave game of all time. Glad to see some love for it.

[@sezzomon6625]

Currently playing through Zodiac age and I really enjoy it especially the job system, hunts and Balthier interacting with the rest of the cast. I do think that the battles can feel a bit slow at times though, especially the beginning, but we can speed through them with the remaster

[@TheEntelexia]

X-2 is the most underrated FF ever. Btw, it's a dressphere system not a songstress system :)

[@I_Am_The_Social_Reject]

Underrated? That's like saying everyone should watch Lizzy Maguire. What's it going to do?

[@Mr.VonStoogle]

Up until Leblanc disappears for a while X-2 isnt one I can really get into but once she's gone its an ok game until she pop's back up again towards the end.

[@ladislavsunek1254]

@@Mr.VonStoogle True, Leblanc was kinda annoying especially with her obsession of Noojie Woojie :D Also never fan of Britney Spears. But i liked the dressphere system for the reason of so many classes to choose from. Wanna have some gambling fun? go 3x lady luck and watch that dud dud dud kill your whole party :D It was decent game, story was kinda meh unless you finished the true ending. But the HD remaster hooked me up once again with the monster taming training and playing with a party made of Logos with the snake gatling gun and slime is fun :D

[@Mr.VonStoogle]

Leblanc is one of the worst FF characters kind of makes you want to throw up

[@Blackwind_Legacy]

I didn't like x-2 cause I was and still am a firm believer that no ff should have a seguel or prequel. It waters them down with what feels like a cash grab. It didn't help I didn't like the agency that was taken away from the player in 10. Removing being able to manually fly around the world map and do things out of order was kinda BS. Also, not being able to change names is also BS. So X-2 never really had a chance with me. (This doesn't apply to ff11 or 14 as they are mmorpgs and that's just how they work. Look at WoW's many expacs. )

[@gsnbr2023]

"Hi hate mobile games" *puts Before Crisis, literally the first Final Fantasy in mobile, in A Tier and FFXV Pocket Edition in C Tier* Ok...

[@MPaulPhoenix]

He hates the mobile games based around microtransactions.

[@ashleylight1300]

He's a fan of the overrated FFVII, what did you expected? (sorry for my bad english)

[@ashermerkabah]

@@ashleylight1300 FFVII isn't overrated. It's literally not only the best selling Final Fantasy game of all time, but the best selling serious jrpg game of all time and the 2nd best selling PS1 game of all time (right behind Gran Turismo). It was a system seller, changed the way jrpgs were made, and felt epic and revolutionary for it's time. I don't know how old you are but many kids these days weren't around in 97 when it was released and only played it because their parents or uncles/aunts talked so highly of it and can't appreciate the graphical jump it was when compared to literally everything else that had come before it on console. It's completely ok if you weren't into FF7, you don't have to like it, but one thing it absolutely and unequivocally wasn't, was overrated.

[@jhulenoscarantezanamendez6106]

@@ashermerkabah none of what you said makes VII sound less overrated

[@ravendarklawgaming197]

@@jhulenoscarantezanamendez6106 To paraphrase Mark Hamill, just because it makes a ton of money doesn't mean it's quality. Not saying 7 is bad but it may be like 4th or 5th on my personal list. 7 just has its rep because it brought some normies into the rpg genre, I actually know quite a few people that bought it based on the ads, then promptly returned it once they played it and realized it wasn't what the ads made it out to be.

[@MtrCtyKid]

"new group that's sort of risen up and said FFVI is the best of the entire franchise.." --- We've been here all along, since 1994; we're not new. You're... rather unique in giving 8 love with your professed love for 7. respect! Love and Respect for your opinions! Thumbs up!

[@gamemaster112ful7]

You let your biases get in the way and say "I don't care about...". If you're making a ranking list play the games you're ranking instead of going by assumptions. FF Brave Exvius is a great game for example and you can get by just fine even as a free to play player. Edit: You mention the mobile games aren't about "Saving the universe" but the story of Brave Exvius is just about that. Opera Omnia has really fun gameplay and same with Record Keeper. The games are quite free to play friendly as well.

[@aaroncruse7094]

The story mode of record keeper, though repetitive, has a wonderful plot and unique characters, I love it

[@LakrimaProject]

@@aaroncruse7094 Yeah all these nostalgic places,cutscenes even fights from original games in 8/16-bit. FFRK is just a such loveltter to old FF.

[@Malevolous]

I’ve picked up and dropped all the mobile games multiple times, but always come back to FFRK when I’m feeling nostalgic(or want to punish myself with a new, nearly-impossible dungeon). It’s a really in depth game with lots of emphasis on timing and balancing multiple factors (and yes, plenty of free mithril for us F2P hardliners).

[@unknownplanet1072]

Mines are Ff9 Ff8 And yes I actually like ff13 And I love the MMO to death 14 is the best MMO

[@PsychoSavage88]

same ff13 series was awesome

[@StrawHatGuy_]

Agree, ff13 is underrated, the whole “hallway” thing was supposed to symbolize that they were trapped on figuring out their focus, and once they truly understood it, they began the gran pulse part of the game. Amazing story, amazing and diverse characters. It’s just so amazing.

[@adventmemory2247]

I love this thread. Ff13 trilogy was just awesome and memorable to me. I love their character development and the lore behind it. It honestly was fun to understand it all. Also, lightning best mom, yes?

[@StephSinalco]

Wow... I'd call that the trio of hell :D Probably the ones I dislike the most. But, hey, cool if you enjoy them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@kibaakuma5172]

I love ff13 just cant beat gaprah white wood boss :(

[@douglasmcarthur1420]

FF7, FF8, FF9, FF10 are my favorites series. Thanks for giving them good ratings.

[@JakeClark-xw4xz]

Those are my favorites too, especially 8. I was quite pleased with those rankings.

[@sezzomon6625]

@@JakeClark-xw4xz I haven't played through every FF not even by a longshot, but I can say that FF8 is my favorite even if the overall story gets kinda weird later on. I just love the battle system, the G.F / level system, the mix of characters that don't seem to fit into the same story at first glance, the focus on the love story between Rinoa& Squall and how he opens up to everyone, but most importantly the godly music.

[@supescape6323]

Mobius FF & Brave Exvius (they have good story but the gacha). Opera Omnia and Record Keeper are actually pretty good.

[@Shiki0414]

Opera Omnia is good...when Rngesus is nice. He's nice atm lol

[@lougait4362]

They are all Gacha. Nothing wrong with it. I like Brave Exvius the best. They kept improving it and made it the most fun

[@frozennoodles1728]

@@Shiki0414 the only think opera onmia suffers is the GATCHA P2W system

[@Shiki0414]

@@frozennoodles1728 gacha is gacha. I'm f2p and got lucky so it's not bad in my experience. I did quit for 8 months coz of boredom and salt so yeah gacha is gacha

[@sarkaztik3228]

@@frozennoodles1728 There's no PvP, and the story and events are easy enough (barring EX boss fights) that you don't need anything too special to beat them, so there is by default no pay to win. There's "pay for the chance to maybe get something before free to play players", but 90% of the time I am getting everything I need through free tickets and not even free gems, and everything can eventually be achieved by a FtP players. Hell, even EXs are coming to a shop where you can just get them without having to Gacha. Not to mention it seems like every single day they're just throwing free stuff at you constantly;.

[@KiomonDuck]

Final fantasy cell phone games is like Biff from Back To The Future. They are Big Dumb and steal your wallet when ur not looking.

[@KiomonDuck]

@@darkfyraproductions7958 i dont know what that is.

[@tommyfraz.]

I played DFFOO and never spent a penny, and cleared all content. I play FFBE now, for a time waster. Nothing amazing, but it’s not horrible.

[@tjongdavid1921]

What the hell r u talking about? I played FFRK and DFFOO and never spent a dime and it's been a blast. I might even say each is better than that shitty, obviously cash-grabbing FFXV. The only time I spent money in FFRK was because I felt they deserve my support and I wanted to show them just that. This is coming from someone who lives in a country where 1 gacha pull is 1/15 of my wage

[@mjsquibby]

I'm late but,, while I agree 13 is just an endless hallway, I think it has one of the most fun combat systems with the paradigms, absolutely love it. It also definitely encourages grinding in one of the later chapters.

[@sezzomon6625]

I don't even think the linear leveldesign is that bad tbh. I mostly play JRPGs for the story, characters and gameplay and as long as the world doesn't Interrupt with those I'm fine with it, especially since more niche JRPGs have the same leveldesign (guess I'm used to it). I really enjoyed the game, but I kinda wish there weren't sequels to it as I kinda disliked how they treated the original story.

[@StrapMerf]

The long hallway design can be a little off putting, but alleviates something 7 and 8 had.. pointless walking around the map lost AF wondering were I was supposed to go....the combat system was top notch.. it took the ai system idea of non controllable teammates and simplified it into roles, picking and swapping the roles on the fly...

[@nicoledin7091]

I didn’t like the paradigms system in 13 but I think it was more fun and clean in 13-2

[@johne3534]

So harsh on RK and BE...I love both of them! But DOO is the best, by far.

[@pewpewzang6595]

yeah, I played BE since it come and he place it in low tier than FF15, but my opinion i think BE more better that FF15 & 13, i play them all as well too

[@garyfung6222]

i get it i played RK for years still playingg BE but at the end of the day they are just cash cow for square

[@stomingaben]

FF5 Deserves at least an S,it's a masterpiece,it's a proper old style Final fantasy game and the Job system is the best ever

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

Except for the story, I love V. The job system is addicting

[@darthwalshus2876]

Am I the only person that doesn’t feel completely attacked by other people’s opinions?

[@superlombax1561]

Yeah, same.

[@cgopie1]

FF8 was my first ever Final Fantasy game, and to this day remains my favourite game of all time of any genre or console/system. I'm glad you gave it a good rating, because a lot of reviews of the game I've seen recently have criticised it a lot for its flaws, but whilst they're not wrong about its flaws, it doesn't detract my love for playing that game, as well as the fact it got me into the Final Fantasy series.

[@IngTomT]

To me VIII was the second FF I played, the first was X and X really blew my mind when I played it but I think I liked VIII even more.

[@JakeClark-xw4xz]

FF8 is the best one to me personally. Such an underrated masterpiece.

[@Alg0rM0rtis]

Same here. I always saw myself as Squall and other FF felt a bit too "happy" and childish.

[@brianm4849]

Everything people say they don't like about ff13 is exactly what I love about it.

[@airbo5104]

If you didn’t play it don’t put it on the list It’s that simple Putting them in the lowest rank just cause you don’t like mobile games makes you come off as a snob Don’t even play the mobile games but you reason to put them down there are bogus Just leave them off Personal opinion or not You never played them...

[@jmgollde843]

Final Fantasy 12 was supposed to be Ashe's story. It was watered down by the inclusion of the Street Turd. 12 is still in my top 5 Final Fantasy.

[@azizali1810]

Grim Grimoire Games Agreed. Van didn’t stand out so much as a protagonist comparing to the rest of the series.

[@samthemadman5000]

Yeah it's my Number 2

[@gem205]

Hey, don't do my boy Vaan like that.

[@Agumon5]

I just realized that this guy hasn't reviewed a Dreamcast game in the Years. Also, final Fantasy X is my fav RPG of all time.

[@mikepaparo4681]

Stopped watching when you gave Brave Exvius an F. I've played every single Final Fantasy, you really shouldn't have covered the entire series as well as spin offs without knowledge of everything. Brave Exvius has a great story, granted it's a gacha game. This has been a baffling watch up until that point in general. Shame I didn't make it to your monumental review of Final Fantasy 13-2.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

I kind of just thought it was funny that he justified ranking all the mobile games as F because they're mobile and he hates mobile.... then gave the mobile version of XV a C because he likes that game.

[@bullythebull260]

@@anthonydelfino6171 😂 true

[@neopolitan1005]

FF: BRAVE EXVIUS has to be a good game. It has a good story plot and it allowed you to play with the full cast of all final fantasy. Not to mention the good turn base graphics. FF:BE SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT LEAST A N "A" at least.

[@animaanimaanima]

Don't underestimate mobile game, SE makes some decent ones. Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia is one of the best I've played. Would give it an A at least.

[@stomingaben]

Final fantasy dimensions is a decent game too

[@dazigolding5814]

Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they are bad, an epic CRAP TON of characters are in Record Keeper as well as Opera Omnia, hell even Roxas from Kingdom Hearts is in Record Keeper. Underrated to all hell, I'll tell ya what.

[@Captain-Hindsight]

Just because you like them doesn't mean they are good.

[@nimbus9314]

Lmao mobile game are trash, play console you broke ass peasant

[@bnop]

YT: (recommends video) Me: (hits “popcorn” button on microwave while reading comments)

[@haramlee83]

"dont you have a phone? guys?" - D -

[@iou320]

How can you say all the phone games are bad Dissidia Opera Omnia is amazing.

[@Chuggax1]

straight facts, i'm completely addicted to it lol

[@MochaTea94406]

@@Chuggax1 same lol

[@TreacherousTetrisTerrorist]

It's wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than NT. So much more characters, so much more customizability, and it's run by a charity organization!

[@superlombax1561]

絵草揺光 Honestly, yeah. I wish NT had all the characters Opera Omnia has, though I’m hoping in the back of my head that they’re planning to slowly add the Opera Omnia roster into NT at some point. If it still stays popular, that is.

[@LRrealest]

I said the same, been playing for over 2 years now(GL)

[@pigeon-man]

My top 3. 3. Final Fantasy IX 2. Final Fantasy V 1. Final Fantasy VII and VIII. (I like them both the same.)

[@orbitaldragon]

My favorite in the entire series would have to be 8. I think the golden years of Final Fantasy was 6, 7, 8, and 9. Tactics also came out during that time. I also hold a special regard for Mystic Quest for one main reason. It was my very first final fantasy game. I got it for 5 bucks out of a bargain bin and completely loved the idea. I have been a massive fan ever since.

[@CHA0SBLEEDS]

I understand you don't like mobile games, but shitting on them just because you don't is silly because some of those games are actually good with a lot of story and charm to them. It would be better you just choose not to rank them at all as you've never played them.

[@CasanovaGamez]

FF2 get's a lot a crap for its battle system which is pretty weak, BUT everyone ignores the story which is crazy when talking about Final Fantasy games. The villain dies goes to hell takes it over and in other releases then takes over heaven later in the game... like wtf??! That's insane and pretty cool.

[@superlombax1561]

Casanova Gamez True. People always talking about how Kefka became a god, even though FF6 is probably one of my favorite FF games so far.

[@nugsboodlepoo]

Final Fantasy XI is my favorite game of all time! I played it on and off for over a decade and have almost 2 years total playtime lol. It was unbelievably hard in its hay-day and you really had to be social and make friends to make progress in the game because doing anything without a full party was impossible. I was a tarutaru White Mage and since a lot of people don't like playing healers in MMOs, I got asked for help a lot I loved how needed it made me feel. I met a lot of friends who I'm still friends with to this day. It is definitely much more than just a game to me~

[@nocsheep]

Grinding isn't an art of adventure. 13 made you move forward without being too powerful. So you actually had to play the game and use paradigm shifts. Not fun? That's subjective. Probably played through the Trilogy 4 times.

[@MizuFujimori]

the 13 trilogy is probably my most fav of the series. The game play is top notch and I love the characters. You know....what final fantasy has been about since its inception......

[@chrisschubring7643]

Dissida Opera Omina is actually a really good final fantasy game. (Cell phone Game)I liked it better then the Dissida for the PS4. It has the Bravery system but it's turned based, and it's over 100 characters including bad guys. It's not for everyone, but it's not bad.

[@Clouds12012]

I agree i love it!!

[@kingty2550]

Only mobile game I can play

[@Alovon]

I say FFXIV: Shadowbringers is actually an S+, it's actually my Favorite FF of all time

[@chrisharter150]

@Kaiser Zephan and why?

[@sebastiancintron29]

@Kaiser Zephan tough shit. The FF7 UI doesn't fit an MMO gameplay style. It's unintuitive. FFXIV even if it's an MMO is still a fantastic game and worthy of being called Final Fantasy. More so than any of the XIII games and XV.

[@davidstubbs2361]

Emet-Selch is one of the best FF villains ever!

[@sebastiancintron29]

@@davidstubbs2361 agreed on that.

[@optimysticquest]

Kaiser Zephan FF7’s battle system isn’t even the same style as the original Final Fantasy lol it’s not supposed to stay the same

[@GoatyOfTheGOATs93]

*Me when I discovered Mobius:* "This is stupid.. It isn't even Final Fantasy.." *Me now with a Lv112 account in Mobius:* "How dare you not only not rank this S+ but call this "crappy phone game"!?"

[@realdomdom]

Dude, fuck X-2. It single-handedly killed X's story.

[@deriquepotillo5759]

Ffv8 still my favorite. That junction system is genius. The only problem i have with it is that Omega weapon is stronger than the real final Boss Ultimecia. Squalls lionheart is iconic dps

[@superlombax1561]

Isn't Omega Weapon a superboss?

[@FuraFaolox]

@@superlombax1561 yeah, that's what i was thinking lol

[@RoBoRoB]

i loved the story in 13-2. im a sucker for time travel storys lol

[@phatmillips]

yup, absolutely loved 13-2

[@rickyroyce8162]

You’re delusional

[@RoBoRoB]

@@rickyroyce8162 why? because people like a game that you dont? lol

[@MechReaperofKhaos]

Ever played Radiant Historia?

[@diegosmurillo]

It's my favorite. Didn't play ff13 but 2 was amazing. Having multiple pokemon like on your team with different abilities and roles

[@annoynymouse1146]

FFV gets easily an S+ for me. It was the best representation of a Roll Playing Game at that time IMO (It still is for me). Sadly most people had to wait for the GBA version to play it.

[@diss2788]

True ffxv is kinda underrated by old players

[@annoynymouse1146]

@@diss2788 I said V... But still I agree. I could get it for windows since I don´t have a PS4... but considering the fact that I am hesitating to get it even though I have heard it's good, that makes me (maybe) one of those "old players"...

[@diss2788]

@@annoynymouse1146 oops misread sorry bud

[@Murk_Wolfheart]

Same, FFV (and IV) was my first FF when i was a child, and this guy is totally wrong about this tier Also FFBE (a mobile game) he put f because is only a Mobile game (i know the microtraslations is a "problem") but this game dont need that to enjoy that that has a very good story (with 3 seasons) has a lot of charathers (original or from another FF) and good battles (for example fighting with Kefka) My point is, this KZbinr made a bad video about qualify this games

[@icessoup]

V is one of the best ones for sure

[@nooberus9241]

FF9 all the way, what a masterpiece!

[@bbedeschi]

Although played few FF, the only one that I got me for real was the 9. By the way, what's your take on 12?

[@jasondp3546]

Nooberus ff9 remake worth the buy ps4?

[@blutek8989]

The beginning is so long and boring tho

[@countryboyred]

Bruno Bedeschi 12 is amazing, but the story kinda sucks. I loved the battle system, gambits, characters, art direction, and pretty much everything else in the game.

[@GigasGalvantula]

brave exvius is a big journey to save the world, it has its own characters and a massively long story

[@thomashardy4436]

Kyoka Jiro exactly play before judging

[@FragmentedR_YT]

Agreed, Lasswell’s a great character period, not just by mobile game standards.

[@justinroe6168]

I do not get why people like to hate on 7 so much. If you are a fan of the series, you know you love it. lol

[@gagazlilmonstur]

FF X-2 is so special. It's just so joyous, quirky, and fun!

[@wiseguy240Winston]

Besides the combat X-2 was trash, even the ost was weak.

[@ilznidiotic]

Felt like "Final Fantasy: Barbie's Big Adventure" to me, but maybe that's your thing.

[@X-Cactus]

Morons, the both of you. X-2 is actually one of the best in the series precisely because of combat.

[@danlewis6261]

@@wiseguy240Winston Yeah, the music is SUCKS!!

[@wiseguy240Winston]

@@X-Cactus Thanks for proving who the moron is. You can't make a good game off of 1 redeeming quality Lmao. The music was lame, the dialogue was cringeworthy as well as most of the characters. The repeated playthroughs get annoying in an attempt to do everything and it's way too light hearted from what ffx was.

[@judgemario]

Fun video. FF6 is the best. FF5 is much better than FF3. FF7 is a good game, but overrated for sure.

[@muadz6629]

Yeah I personally don't think saying that "all of the FF mobile games are bad" was fair at all. FF Dimensions, Opera Omnia and Brave Exvius are exceptionally great games with good storylines. I understand that some of them are cash grabs or recycled content from other games, but not all of them are bad, trust me

[@izlude9283]

As die hard Final Fantasy and 90% agree to your list, I'm playing FFBE 3 years now and I would place it on Tier A. :)

[@skeetyboot]

"I dont think it should have been a trilogy, I know thats controversial" dude everybody fucking hates 13 thats not controversial and this is coming from someone who loves it

[@superlombax1561]

Indeed

[@mauriciogago4465]

I actually enjoyed FF13, I don't think it's all that bad. Yeah, no exploration at all, but I thought the battle system was simple but fun. FF13-2...battle system is alright, but the characters are so lame I couldn't play it for more than a few hours. Will never play Lightning Returns probably. The one I disagree the most with this video though is FF14. I really tried to like it, and I played it a lot, finished the story until a year or so ago, but to be honest it's terribly easy and lame. All classes are basically the same, you do the same exact rotation every single battle. It's fun at times, but it has so many incredibly boring quests, so much filler....it's 90% of the time just a mind-numbing experience.

[@skeetyboot]

@@mauriciogago4465 lightning returns gameplay wise is my favorite RPG of all time but the story is so numbingly atrocious that it keeps me from going back to it. I really liked 13-2 but yeah the characters were pretty lame I liked caius a lot I wish he was in a different game so other people would care about him. Noel was alright too and I like serah just because she isn't great. I have yet to play FF14 mainly because I'm not an online game guy but I'm bound to get to it eventually.

[@mauriciogago4465]

@@skeetyboot well you can try A Realm Reborn for free if you have time. Just don't go into crafting, it's a huge waste of time and completely pointless. All the equipment you need you'll get from the MSQ and there's no reason to get anything else until you're hundreds of hours into the game, if you ever get there...after ARR there's over 100 filler quests, I'm not kidding about this...worst game design I've ever seen.

[@evanvongustav8814]

"Final fantasy is about giant worlds and fighting to save the universe. These mobile games aren't that" My dude, you know that feeling that PS1 players describe about the first time they played the Original FF7 in the days before the internet, "when you get near the end of Midgar, where "you think, 'I think this is almost over. This feels like the climax of a hollywood movie, and there's nowhere else left to go in this city, maybe the last two discs are for challenge modes or behind the scenes or w/e, and then you make it to the end of midgar and find out that it's all one area in a MASSIVE overworld, AND this is all somehow on disc 1?" Well, Brave Exvius kinda does something similar. You start off on the Grandshelt Isles, a sizable map-select style world map where each location has a minimum 4 battles and 2 cutscenes, but its usually 3 cutscenes or one or two of the battles will have dialogue, (ok, significant boss stages will OCCASIONALLY be the ONLY battle in a location. Outside of those significant boss fights, each battle has 3-4 waves of enemies) and by the time you've finished the grandshelt isles, you get this feeling that this story CANNOT keep going that much longer, then 13 battle stages, a ton of cutscenes, and 3 towns later, you find out that the Grandshelt Isles are just one third of the Grandshelt "continent" when the map zooms out with 2/3 of it covered by mist, then have half of the mist fade away revealing Lanzelt, leaving to realize that there's still at least one more country to explore after Lanzelt, making you realise the game isn't even close to the halfway point, then, after you clear all three countries in Grandshelt, the map zooms out AGAIN, making you realize that the entire game up to this point is just ONE SMALL CORNER OF THE WORLD MAP, (literally in the upper left corner), and you're like, "oh my god, all this is at most 30% of the the story"). And if you ever think, "if all they do is tell me they've been wandering for a long time, I won't feel quite the same as if I experienced it", there's often an additional Exploration stage in any given Forest, Ruins, Cave, Mountain path, etc. filled with random encounters, side quests, chests, all that Final Fantasy goodness, complete with a field miniboss monster jumping you with little to no context beyond "this monster is territorial and/or carnivorous and hungry, and conveniently caught you as you were 2 steps away from EXITING its territory and/or hunting grounds", oftentimes sidequests will send you looking for a specific part of an exploration map, which leads to you instigating a fight against an extra scripted fight or finding a key item, or finding a key item, THEN getting jumped by a scripted fight. Explorations often have alternate exits that lead to bonus areas with cool shops or unlock a map with a new summon (all the summons except the first one are in secret areas that must be unlocked, usually through talking to every NPC you find in Towns to learn a rumor about a place and it's location relative to other landmarks.

[@evanvongustav8814]

And they are really meticulous about certain things. While there are a LOT of palette swaps in the enemies, each one has a bio you can unlock by Scanning them, which you can then read by going to "Guides" -> "Monsters" ("Guides" is basically a poorly named Bestiary, as the game mechanics are detailed elsewhere in the menu,) most every enemy with a different name or even a different sprite has a unique 1 to 3 sentence bio. And even better, even event monsters are in the bestiary, so whenever you get to fight monsters in the world of Orience from Type-0 or Gaea from VII or Eos from XV in one of the numerous crossover events, that's more bios to read. Every item, and equip you collect has a description, and many contain cool references, and playable characters have their oqn seperate Bestiary from monsters, any character you've owned has its own bio with its own viewable sprites, animations, etc. And each time you upgrade a characters rarity, their bio has an extra line or 2, which means while there's a lot of overlap, they have to write every bio 3 times over. You could spend hours in the story even if you steamroll the actual fights, you can spend hours just reading the bios if you've scanned every enemy you see, or even if you can't pull any 5 stars, there's so many 3 and 4 stars that the character bio is pretty meaty even if all you have are a bunch of 3 or 4 star characters. This game's roster is massive, even if a lot of them are completely useless in today's meta. Name a character that appears in Brave Exvius's own story, you can probably summon them and play as them. You can find nearly any party member or significant antagonist or NPC too, (except somehow we still don't have Cid Highwind), from Reno (VII) to Rydia (IV) to Fujin and Raijin (VIII) to motherf***ing Kenny Crow Thalia, and Aranea (XV) and Yazoo and Loz (FFVII AC), or Brother (X) You've got everything from protags and final bosses to NPCs that you almost forgot was even in your favorite FF, is my point. And tbey occassionally even have collabs with other SE IPs. If a character from an FF game you never played intrigues you, you can find out what game they appear in, etc. The story itself is about as crazy/ambitious/massive as it gets in FF, too, Act I, has Rain unlock the mysterious power of Visions, crystalized memories given form, then try to master it before it kills him, all the while trying to locate his missing father and stop not 4, but 8 Elemental Armored Warriors from destroying not 4 but 8 elemental crystals that hold the world together. Without naming names, as it turns out, the "leader" of these 8 Elemental warriors (called Veritas or collectively "The Sworn Six/Eight of Paladia") has a special connection to Rain. And though they number 8, there's only 6 active members at the start because one went missing a long time ago and another defected. They also claim to be from a place called Paladia despite no records of a country by that name exist on the World of Lapis where the game takes place. As I said before, the Sworn Six's goal is to destroy the 8 elemental crystals that hold the world of Lapis together, thereby causing the destruction of Lapis as far as anyone understands, and each crystal destroyed also releases an Elemental Sage who were sealed away a long time ago by their oppressors, and though in the past they were all noble, they were all warped by being sealed in their respective crystals for so long. The effects ranged from amnesia to loss of sentience to loss of sanity to developing a sense of self and emotions bu

[@percievalfawcett5312]

The ff13 trilogy is too underrated i think they are the most interresting ff i played and the hero evolutions are very well made

[@websiteanimex]

final fantasy X should be S+.

[@adontelarome7758]

Facts

[@OriruBastard]

Psh, there should be F- section to that game.

[@itsthatYEStoogoodguy]

Final Fantasy VIII isn't S+ or God tier? I don't agree with you on this one I used to respect people opinions but that doesn't apply here sorry what makes me even more mad that FF7 & FF9 are absolute trash compare to FF8, tbh both FF7 & FF9 are overhyped for no reason specially FF7.

[@derekdellinger9589]

FFII is criminally underrated. It brought so many things to the series, and it's annoying how often later entries like IV and VI get credit for bringing them to the series. If the leveling could be touched up to prevent the horribly high encounter rate, it would probably easily be the best from the NES. Like, I'm not sure how FFII and Mystic Quest are in the same tier.

[@michaelbest5505]

I agree that it should have been put higher. It’s a difficult game for sure, but still fun enough to revisit now and then.

[@dimitrav.9739]

You can immediately tell that this guy has no clue what he's talking about and has probably just watched playthroughs all of your descriptions make no sense at all. This is just some way to get clicks...

[@bboyhavoc]

When people say FF XIII is a giant hallway... guess what? So was FFX! I just don't get it.

[@optimysticquest]

Along with almost every dungeon in FFIX

[@themonarchsarchives8453]

A lot of the FF games are linear. FF7, 8 and 9 are pretty linear if you think about it. 10 was exceptionally linear. The only reason people complain about 13 is because there were no sidequests or opportunities for slight deviation. In 7 you had Fort Condor, the Gold Saucer, and the occasional sidequest like Gongaga or the Yuffie/Vincent sidequests, in 8 you had Card Games, the occasional sidequest and the incentive to grind for GF abilities, and 9 had the occasional sidequest and the Chocobo Mini Game before you got the Blue Narciss. 10 was linear but you could backtrack and play Blitzball, but 13 had none of that. 13 level capped you, had no sidequests like cards, and very little deviation on the map. That being said, I still have a favourable opinion of FF13. I'd place it in the middle of the pack, maybe on the higher end. It was a great game, just not amazing like 7-10 and 12 (IMO). The linearity really didn't bother me that much.

[@rogthepirate4593]

Most FFs are linear, even X, yes. But XIII, for about 80% of the game, is LITERALLY a straight, narrow fucking hallway with at most the occasional side hallway that ends in a chest, and nothing else. Linearity in the game's overall design is one thing, but XIII is extremely linear in actual level design too, to a much higher degree than ANY previosu FF. I mean, look at the minimap to see what I mean, most of the time it's quite literally a narrow tube. Much of the game consists of pushing the stick forward and pressing X occasionally, even in battle. It had the potential to be so much more than that, but they wasted it almost completely.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

10 definitely was a hallway, but it gave you the illusion of being able to explore in a way that 13 didn't. You had the option (and requirement if you wanted unlock the monster arena) of going back to areas you'd already visited. In 13, once you left an area, it was gone for ever. Also 10 masks its linearity with little side branching quests that show you how you go off the main road to do a thing then go back onto it. Operation Mi'ihen for example is a side path off the Mushroom Rock Highroad.

[@akiinmoonlight79]

FF7 is still one of the best games of all time and it's like you said, the reason why jrpgs are a common genre in the west now ! (FF 8&9 are my fave games ever... Tactics & 10 should have been a S+ tho >~< ♡)

[@wiseguy240Winston]

Have you not played 6?

[@EnE85]

I feel that 7 is S+ on the merit that it popularized JRPGs in the west but not because its the best Final Fantasy. In terms of entries in the series I think 4,6,9 are better than 7.

[@kennysmith8665]

@@wiseguy240Winston lol or Chrono Trigger, or FFIV, or Secret of Mana....and that's just from the SNES. Sorry FF7 did not popularized JRPGs those 3 games plus some from the Sega Genesis already had more than a foot in the door LONG before FF7.

[@akiinmoonlight79]

@Y0uT008 and P3d0ph1l35 yeah true but 7 made it mainstream and brought much wider appeal yk °~°

[@vire559]

FF before crisis is a cellphone game lol

[@yeetdatcodeboi]

was going to comment the same if someone else already didnt. job well done sir.

[@UNKNOWNBYTE]

Someone did however do a fan-remake of it utilizing most if not all the original sprites, etc for PC. ;) Should check it out.

[@xKayNee]

I agree with your statement about FF9 being objectively the best.

[@robertwallen1582]

"FF12 is ground breaking because there is not a single main characters" Forgets FF6 did the same thing with a better story and is also an S+ on his list!

[@geoffreyboutayeb]

Better story is debatable

[@Ultimabuster92]

@@geoffreyboutayeb Very debatable. It depends on what you like more. I, for example, liked the more mature approach of Final Fantasy XII. I still think that FF6 is an amazing game but FFXII gave me more. Also the world building in XII is... next level.

[@geoffreyboutayeb]

@@Ultimabuster92 I agree with you 100%

[@BeloXV]

Am i the only one that still plays ffxv to this day and really enjoys it(btw this tier list was not so good especially trashing on the mobile games)

[@Reds-Retros]

I agree with some of your points, but the fact that you'd rate FF2 worse than XIII is very puzzling to me, especially considering that XIII "discouraged grinding" and FF2 basically did the opposite of that and told a much more interesting FF story with character deaths and great music. I'd actually consider FF2 the first proper Final Fantasy and is leagues above XIII in my opinion. Your ratings of certain other FF games is also quite puzzling to me and the reasons suggest you aren't all that familiar with them, which is fine, but keep in mind many of the games that you said are pretty trash actually mean a lot to some people, so at least a little research and respect for these titles would have been appreciated in a video like this.

[@meischoice]

Dreamcast guy, i encourage you to play FF: Record Keeper. I know you said that you hate Mobile Games, but Record Keeper features ORIGINAL Soundtracks, as well as RE-CREATED MEMORABLE SCENES FROM ALL THE MAIN STORY FINAL FINAL FANTASYs' games, (even FFT). And they are all recreated in 2D form. The coolest is the "demake" of all 3D final fantasy games. Please try Record Keeper just for the Record Dungeons. It's a delight to see those cutscenes again, especially if you're a big FF fan.

[@presmadagascar]

>FF14: some of the best writing >FF11: had a lot of expansions, major departure by being an MMO FF11 was written by the dude who made chrono trigger. you can just admit you didn't play it. you didn't even pretend to have footage for it.

[@fong03]

Thank you lol

[@superlombax1561]

presmadagascar No one has a perfect track record. I haven’t played FF11 yet myself, but I’m just saying.

[@presmadagascar]

@@superlombax1561 I'm just saying, "but it's an MMO" is kind of a lame criticism when one of your "top" games on the list was also an MMO. FF14's writing is incredibly spotty with decent side quests being so rare as to be notable and 2 out of 4 main story questlines being pretty widely disliked. And Shadowbringers isn't even good, it's just crowd-pleasing melodrama. A lot of the characters do shit that makes absolutely no sense, in service of appearing mysterious and conflicted up until you have a big fight and then they cry. FF11 on the other hand, had pretty consistently great writing. Like, compare Prishe and Emet-Selch: Both are immortal sociopaths who try to do some good to rekindle their sense of empathy toward the mortal, but then ultimately decide they're tired and would rather just die. Except Emet acts like a Saturday morning cartoon 90% of the time, does a big villain thing and then has a moment of sympathy before getting killed off forever. Prishe is a believable character who hides her motivations and intentions and then, crucially, sticks around after fucking you over and comes to realize how shitty what she did was and develops as a character as she confronts the shame she feels as a result. This is probably way too fucking long for a youtube comment so in short, FF14's writing is generally bad and the problem is this: the supporting cast are one-note and the antagonists are just antitheses to the player that you punch until they say goodbye forever without having ever meaningfully explored the problem with their motivations beyond "killing is bad".

[@TheNCreid]

I know you said you don't care about the mobile games, but FF Brave Exvius is definitely worth the time investment for the story. Beating it will require a moderate number of rare pulls, but you can get those for free from random daily gifts and currency your earn by beating the story. Top tier stuff is not required at all. To that end, don't pay into the gatcha side of it; it's not necessary unless that's the experience you want. But truly, the story of Exvius stands on par with any of the 16 bit era, and in some ways, exceeds them. It's absolutely a Final Fantasy story, not just the weird tap-bait that is some All the Bravest or that nonsense.

[@Kami0n]

> Hates Mobile Games >> "I like Before Crisis" >>> Is a mobile game that was never ported or localised You probably thought about some other game?

[@ShadyGFella]

Great vid! Also, FF:Tactics is 100% S+ grade.

[@titouchose6534]

It is!

[@ilznidiotic]

You are objectively correct. Everyone who disagrees is wrong.

[@sozaj]

I agree.

[@SlevinCCX]

Granted these lists are 100% subjective and only matter to the one who made it, but 2 things I thought were a bit weird, Before Crisis is a mobile game, but ranked A? And Lightning Returns better than 13? Bought it on release, and to this day have yet to complete Lightning Returns, I don't even understand its point.

[@madsolar480]

FFX edges out FFIX in my opinion, but I agree that FFVII is and will always be the best. Best characters, best villian, best story, best battle system, best open world, and best soundtrack.

[@tempestaoc7518]

Amen

[@kevlar1482]

Yeah Red XIII is unforgettable. Best characters, my ass.

[@madsolar480]

@@kevlar1482 easily best characters and no one cares about your ass