Me: finishes final fantasy
Square: releases final fantasy 2
Me: those bastards lied to me
The name is a bit silly but I love the story behind it.
For the uninformed: When Square was developing FF, the story goes that the company was facing bankruptcy and that this would be their last game. It ended up being a hit and the rest of history.
Supposedly and alternatively, it may have been so named as the designer’s (Hironobu Sakaguchi) last shot in the game industry and he had resolved to stop if it didn’t work.
Either way, I like it.
As interesting as it is, thats actually a common misconception. It wasn’t due to facing bankruptcy and years later Sakaguchi gave a different account from his supposed last effort at making a game.
This Famitsu article details it as such because they hoped it would be abbreviated as FF because it sounded good in Japanese. Their initial name was Fighting Fantasy but that had potential trademark issues, so they settled on Final Fantasy. Apparently they also didn’t care so much about what it was and any words that abbreviated to FF would work.
I like the more recent story as it gives some certainty to the series from the beginning, but I suspect it was a mixture of both Sakaguchis possible last hurrah and wanting a “cool” name.
Ok but can you name 30 games that you’ve beaten all from separate series? Because I actually couldn’t
- Pokemon Blue
- Final Fantasy 7
- Star Control 2 (UQM)
- Super Mario World
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- Kirby’s Adventure
- The Legend of Zelda
- Earthbound
- Fire Emblem
- Rock Band
- Guitar Hero
- Katamari Damacy
- Trails in the Sky
- Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Bug Fables
- Borderlands 2
- GTA3
- Illbleed
- Gex
- Return Fire
- StarCraft
- Streets of Rage 2
- Street Fighter 2
- Heavy Rain
- Beyond Two Souls
- Golden Sun
- Shining in the Darkness
- Chrono Trigger
- Persona 5
That was actually pretty tough! I tried to avoid “related” series too (like 2D vs. 3D Mario, Mario vs. Yoshi, etc.)
You smell 35 to 45 years old.
X is still my favorite.
I prefer Wayland.
I hope it gets a remake like VII.
What needs to be remade? It has a very purpose-built battle system, unlike 9 (for example), which used the same system the games had had since 4.
What needs to be remade? Nothing; I’d just like to see updated graphics, a couple tweaks in the story here and there, and maybe a few tweaks to the sphere grid.
It’s a great game, I just wouldn’t mind seeing it get upgraded a bit.
You might enjoy one of the rereleases of FFX if you haven’t played it yet. They’ve updated the spheregrid, and even have an alternative one (International version, I think it’s called?..).
And there’s probably fan hacks by now, too!
