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Hiromichi Tanaka did not come up with Edgar and Sabin, Soraya Saga (she also worked on Xenogears along with her husband, Tetsuya Takahashi) did. As far as I am concerned, Tanaka didn't write any of the characters for FF6. I think you should put this into the notes/subtitles, as this is clearly wrong information. Other than that, I have only watched it up till the FF6 part to comment on this. But so far, it's overall a good and enjoyable video. I'll keep watching, thanks for making this! EDIT: Celes also learns magic naturally through level ups, just like Terra. She merely gets different spells.

dirge of cerberus was way underrated.

FFX number 8 ?! For a Shooting player, this is the Best FF to first try a FF... Music is just amazing,.. but the music from 7 is in the same level.. so for me... munber 1 FFX, number 2 FFVII

Not a bad list. I rate XIII and VI a lot higher and X a LOT lower, but agree IX is the best game and Vivi is the best character in the whole series

I wanted to love FFXVI. I love FFXIV and was really looking forward to FFXVI just based on their previous work. I even bought a PS5 just for the game and got the CE with the Ifrit and Pheonix statue. I didn't mind the action based approach even though I've been a fan since my cousin gave me FF1 on the NES when we were kids. I don't think that FF has to be turn based in order for it to be FF. That being said, I have some major issues with the game that spoiled my enjoyment of it. First, the RPG elements were poorly handled. You touched on exploration and I agree with what you said. I would add that the crafting system and quest rewards were also poorly implemented. There was a point in my first play through where I crafted a sword, went through a series of cut scenes and found that the blacksmith had a new upgrade available right after finishing them. I didn't even use the sword I had just crafted before upgrading it. My second major issue you also hit on in the video. There was a point towards the end where I started to question why I was even trying to save this world. The lack of whimsy and joy really did hurt the experience. FFIX is my favorite in the series and it's main themes revolve around coming to terms with death. It's a serious subject, but there's still a lot of whimsy and fun in the world which contrasts with the darker moments and theme. I think CBU3 could've have really benefited by adding in a reason for the characters to want the world to go on outside of merely persisting to live. My final big issue completely ruined the game for me. I loathe open endings. I think they're pretentious and unfulfilling and in a game where you spend 50+ hours getting to know characters, it's awful not seeing some kind of closure for them. It didn't have to be a happy ending. I love FFIX's bittersweet ending where you get to see the thoughts of a dying Vivi who never gets to say goodbye to his friend Zidane. I just need something that has a bit of closure for the characters I've been traveling with. I don't think it's a bad game. I just think it's disappointing and I wish it had turned out better. I probably won't run out and drop $1,000 to play the next game in the series, so at least I learned that lesson, right? lol

I’ll say it, ff6 has too many characters. It feels like a lot of characters were split in half. And ff8 is my favorite game of all time despite the flaws, I just played it at the perfect time

Swap the spots of FF2, and FF14, and it would be my list 100%.

i cant accept FF16 above 4.. 😥FF4 is superior in what a FF game is supposed to be. And i def dont agree with calling the open world of FF16 beautiful. The world to me felt really grey, copy paste and lifeless (mostly). I really struggled gettin trough FF16. The combat saved it bigtime. The NPC's felt emotion and lifeless and dont get me started on the sidequests.. the only real awesome character didnt get enough screentime. I felt way more empathy for those few pixel in FF4 with no visuable emotions and voices than almost everyone in 16.

Love the way you present your opinions, love the details behind the making of these games! Annnnd love this channel :D Would love to see a video about Square vs Enix and their merging X)

To rouch on FF16 side quests real quick... I thini that narratively they are wonderful. So many amazing character and world building moments come from those side quests, and they are super worth experiencing! It just sucks that every single side quest in the game boils down to "Go place, kill thing / collect thing, talk to person" on loop. It makes it really tiresome to actually do the side quests, and most of the time the only thiny keeping me going was the though of wrapping up that little story and seeing the cutscene.

I remember playing FF VI on SNES back in the 1990's. It was epic! I enjoyed it and played it several times.

I’ve just recently took a shot at final fantasy with VII remake, about to finish rebirth. I’m looking to try a turn based FF, which game would you suggest for someone with very little turn based experience?

FF6 is just so grand and amazing. I just finished beating it again and it's amazing. The characters may not be the most developed, but they do get enough screen time to make you like them somewhat. The games final battle with Kefka is the most grand and epic final battle in any FF game. It's like all these friends get together to take down this insane evil god. I think the characters in FF6 are the most powerful out of all the Final Fantasy titles. They just slaughter enemies like crazy and there's SOOOOO many enemies to fight in FF6. Such a 16 bit masterpiece.

I only played the trial version of 11

Hey Brandon, yeah Lunar series I do like them a lot! As for Arc the Lad, if you can get the collection of the first 3, that are strategies game instead of action one you got!

Hey Brandon, yeah we all need a dead year, but it will never happen! lol Great list, of course, I know you probably added the new legend of Zelda on your list, on mine there is also Fantasy Life i, did have a lot of fun the 3DS one :) I guess we don't help ourself by doing these youtube thing, but it's so much fun, that the point of gaming right? lol

21:04 “…kicking against the fate of a predetermined path.” Just like the players. I kid. I think XIII gets a lot of unnecessary hate. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a great game, but it’s not nearly as bad as a lot of the fans of other games make it out to be.

Hey Brandon, nice list, well mine is not complete, still need to play IX, X, XI, XII and XVI. I am sure that that 9 and 12 would be high on my list from what I play so far. but beside that from the one I like less to my best would be 3, 5, 2, 15, 8, 13, 1, 7, 14, 4 and 6. and you would think I don't like job system, but I love games like, FFT or Bravely default. I must say my first run for the 3rd one was on DS, did like the pixel remaster a lot more!

As you stated, I wish FFXV Royal had a mode that automatically played the DLC in the intervening moments they feel most necessary. Despite owning the DLC immediately, I thought it best to play the main game first not knowing the importance of the DLC. As a side note, I don’t like the multimedia approach to storytelling BUT when I play FFXV again, I’ll gladly immerse myself in as much of it as possible because this is the only FF game that does it, for better or worse. 😊

I found you through @femtrooper nice to meet you. I'm glad to meet others that are into gaming. I'm from Jamaica I'm the first game collector from my iland.

finally, someone who know the real value of ff9

Great video - love the detail you put in!

What a fun video! Absolutely amazing pickups! Especially those PSP pickups!!! Fantastic titles. I had no idea Valkyrie profile came out on the ds aswell. Lost Odyssey is a fantastic pick up aswell!

Nostalgia aside, FF XII is the best overall for me. I would even most of the modern RPG now are templated from it.

Literally just talking about Tales of Graces f anf Tales of Xillia today. Wish i had direct source, but from what i understand, something about the PS3, hardware or how it reads data or *something* makes it very difficult to get games converted to modern systems. Those two games were my absolute favorite Tales of games too.

Great video!!! Definitely some I need to pick up for sure / play because I own them haha

My man, I'm loving all the Xenoblade merch you've got! I reckon you've snagged a pretty good bundle with that $100. Looking forward to the next video!

What one are you going to play first?

For what it's worth, I honestly think if it was just called Dragon Quarter and wasn't attached to Breath of Fire it'd be looked at much more fondly today. I honestly love the game but it suffers from not being basically a game that they stuck the franchise name on to try to help sell it. There's other games that suffer from this as well, but this is the biggest one. Overall a great video and a great selection of (relatively) inexpensive games that people should try to pick up, or play however they can.

I'm a sucker for dungeon crawlers, Dark Cloud and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2 were some of my favs from back in the day. Good stuff nova!

I am tempted to buy a modded SNES cartridge for FE 4 and 5 with the english patch installed. But i do not have a console I could play on. I want to get a Retron 5 but I'm not sure where. Not like I could afford it anyway. But I want one. Playing my old GBA games on the TV sounds lit. But yeah, I might buy those. Maybe. After I get an AC unit for my room. I hate summer. My copy of daybreak just got shipped and I received the email that it is on the way. I need to play Azure. And make Coffee Jelly. Coffee jelly seems so damn tasty. I just have to make it!

So many amazing games! Dark Cloud, Star Ocean and Rogue Galaxy are probably my favorites, but they are all really good

Arc the Lad: twilight of the spirits i really loved, along with Dark Cloud. Shadow Hearts 1 and Shadow Hearts Covenant were a couple of my favorite of the PS2 era

Great video! Definetly going to be on the lookout for some of these! Thanks to one of your previous videos I was able to track down a copy of Radiata Stories and that didn't release here in UK so finding that was fun. But got it for a great price. Also added Lost Odyssey back to my collection. Used to own it but traded it away after not getting far. But your video made me want to give it a second chance! Keep up the great content!❤

Game 3 was one of my favorites as a kid. Surprised that I played a game that you haven't :P Glad to see another upload!

Now do 500 next

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$1000 next 😊

Can I just say this is best video on RUclips about the Final Fantasy series. You’ve got me hyped to play 12. Keep up the great work Brandon! Top stuff 👍

A well earned sub from me! Incredibly well structured video and amazing analysis of a series that I am very very late to the party for. I probably started in completely the wrong place with the 7 remake, not long finished FFVII Rebirth, and I’m now a couple hours into FFVXI, I realise I’m only a novice, but I’ve already purchased FFX and FFIX ready to go for when I complete XVI!! 26 and only just deep diving into the entire series!

FF13 and the other two games are all S-tier combat tbh Also if you read the datalog everytime there is an update to it, it's impossible to not know what is going on

FF3 starting class is Freelancer though, not Onion Knight? And the pictures you used look like the mobile phone version (they were higher resolution than the DS) I'm currently replaying the DS version. It's good, but obviously not as good as 5 or 10-2 for job systems. Disagree about it being a skip as people who play a lot of class/job rpgs will probably enjoy it. The transition phase is one of my only complaints about the game As for classes I found that Whm + Blm x3 works really well for a lot of the game, as during the mini/toad sections phyiscal attacks do 1 damage. Targetting enemies elemental weaknesses is cool too (even though melee classes do get some weapons that cover this too). One of the three blm can be replaced with a melee dps/tank though, but if you overlevel you probably won't need one

Tierlists are always about iffy to me because it depends on what the focus is. If its story focused then you can end up with games that have good combat in lower tiers. If it's combat focused then you could end up with games with decent stories in lower tiers too. Doing an "overall" tierlist doesnt eradicate this issue either. My tierlists are combat/gameplay focused, but it just so happens that those titles also have great stories and endings. The exception being 12 which has S-tier gameplay but average story/ending. If one element is so good then it doesn't need the others tbh. That's why 12 is in my S tier despite me thinking the story and ending are B-C tier