My Final Fantasy was years ago.

Lady Corrington · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: My Final Fantasy was years ago.

Okay. I've had it up to here with these Sci-Fantasy games Squeenix is tube-feeding us of late.

Final Fantasy VII RUINED the series. Now it's all flashy lights and high technology. It's been ruined.

I hate this.

Here's the deal. I got into Final Fantasy when I was just a little girl. I played the first game, and fell in love with it. When I played IV (then released as Final Fantasy II), and fell in love with the brave story of Cecil and the Knights and Damsels gameplay. And then came Final Fantasy III (or VI, if you're Japanese like my husband and Mai), with its introduction of high tech. It was okay, because it still felt like a fantasy game. Then came VII, and the world was changed forever. From that point on, the series felt less and less like a fantasy game. Now it's gone. That feeling is gone. I watch the trailers to the XIII games, and all I see is another sci-fi game. Where's the magic? Where's the nobilty? Where's the FANTASY?

In Final Fantasy IV, we had a simple, clean cut tale of good vs evil. No political intrigue, no guns. Hell, we had MIND FLAYERS! It was a fantasy fan's dream come true. To this day, IV is my absolute favorite. Compare that to what Squeenix is pumping out now. Guns. Lots of them. Blood. No knights, no damsels in distress; all of the former trappings of a fantasy game have been discarded in favor of a technological masterpiece meant to cater solely to a society that increasingly favors a technological solution to a simple problem. And maybe that's why the games are changing; they have been reflecting what's important to us deep down.

I must say, I have lost all faith and loyalty to this series. Dissidea will be the last Final Fantasy I ever buy, and merely because it serves as a broken reminder of one child's dream of being a knight and saving the world with nothing but a sword and the help of her friends.

These new Final Fantasy heroes aren't fantasy heroes. They're super soldiers, and their kind belongs in games like Halo, not Final Fantasy.

The Fantasy is dead. Maybe it's time the series died with it.

Creeping shadow · Lair Staff/ Lookout Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 542

I understand where you are coming from the original six are simply perfect masterpeices. But honestly I cant give up on one of my favorite series just yet. If XIII fails then the series will be dead to me.

Warrior of the Dark Moon · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject:

Ah. Darling. It's called the evolution of a series. While Devil May Cry, Soul Calibur, and Castlevania are still sticking to the original formula a great deal, Final Fantasy is bound to go where the money is.
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DoctaMario · Chieftain Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 109

I kinda like the cyber-punk aspects of FFVII. I'm not really a huge FF fan, but I've played a few of them and I think the blend of futuristic settings with swords is interesting.
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