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Final Fantasy..? I have been a fan of the FF series for a long time. FF7 was the very first game of the series that I've played and I fell in love with it. I have played all of the FF series games from the FF Anthology games (FF5 and FF6), and to FF7 thru FFX. I'm a big fan of the series, but I noticed that something was missing from FF8 and FF10. I liked the games, don't get me wrong, but there just seemed to be something missing from them. Where was the fantasy in those 2 games..? Like I said earlier, FF7 was the first one I've played from the series, and it was, and still is, my favorite game of all time. I loved the imaginary world that was created, the characters, the story, everything about it. Then, I got FF8 as a birthday gift in September of '99. I played it, and I liked it, but it seemed to lack the fantasy that FF7 had. For example, the characters. In FF7, you have a spikey-haired guy in a purple jump suit, a girl that beats the living crap out of everything and has extremely big boobs, a girl that is an Ancient, a gay Black dude with a gun for an arm, a dog-thingy, a toy, a drunken mechanic, a depressed hairy guy, and a very scrawny theif as characters. They were very imaginative and fun characters. But in FF8, the characters are just a bunch of pretty white kids. The characters looked too...real. They weren't imaginative at all, like in FF7. There were some aspects of fantasy, like having the storyline focused around sorceress power and time compression, but it was a little too hard to understand for me. And it seemed to me that the storyline was just something that was thrown in at the last minute. I only liked FF8 because of it's very neat graphics, some aspects of it's battle system, and I also liked the card game too. But it didn't have the fantasy like FF7 had. And then I got FF9. It almost beat FF7 in being my favorite FF game. Unlike FF8, the characters were much more imaginative. You have a main character with a tail, a princess who has the power to summon, a black mage, a nobley stupid knight, a rat who is a dragon lancer, a Quan with an obsession with food, a theif with red play-doh hair, and a little girl with a horn that also has the power to summon. The only thing I didn't like about FF9 was the card game (I liked FF8's card game better). The whole storyline revolved around summoning and crystals, and it seemed really thought out, I thought. FF9 got back to the "fantasy" roots, which is what the FF series should be about, fantasy and nonrealistic stuff. And then came FF10. I do like some aspects of the game, but I'm slightly dissapointed. The game lost it's fantasy because, like FF8, the characters were a bunch of pretty white kids (okay, they threw in a Jamacian guy in there so that they wouldn't look too shallow), I hated the idea of the sphere grid, and I just couldn't get into Blitzball. The only thing that I liked about the game was the fact that you can switch characters during battle and the awsome graphics. I also loved Lulu as a character (that's the only character I really liked). But it just wasn't as good of a fantasy game like FF7 and FF9. Now they are coming out with a FFX-2 that will be out around September. I may buy it out of curiosity, but I have a feeling that it will be a waste of money. I know that it seems like I'm rambeling on aimlessly...which I am, and you may have no freaken clue about what the hell I'm trying to say..which I don't either, but I guess what I am trying to say is FF8 and FF10 just lacked the fantasy that FF7 and FF9 had. Most gamers just want to play a game where you can save the world from a transvestite villan who wants to destroy it, with the help of characters such as a guy with a tail, a Black dude with a gunned arm, a cute little black mage, or a girl with rediculously big boobs (I guess that's just eye candy to all of the guy gamers, or to some girl gamers that are into that stuff). FF8 and FF10 didn't have that. Well, okay, I couldn't tell if Adel in FF8 was male or female and Seymour in FF10 was definately a female (I don't care what you say, a female had to have done his voice!). So, to sum it up, fantasy=good =^_^=. |