Top 7 Final Fantasy Spin-Off Titles (That You Should Totally Play!)
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Since its humble beginnings as a singular game, Final Fantasy has grown to be an absolute beast of a franchise. And with so many sequels, spin-offs and spin-offs to spin-offs out there, we thought it would be rather apt to compile a list of the best Final Fantasy spin-offs out there!
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In this video, we will be covering Final Fantasy games like...
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7
- Final Fantasy Type-0 (HD)
- Dissidia 012 Duodecim Final Fantasy
- World of Final Fantasy
- Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
- Final Fantasy Tactics
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Final Fantasy Tactics will always be my favorite Final Fantasy beside FF6. The story really was so much better compared to many of the numbered FF games IMO. I'm still waiting on the day you guys would do an origins video on Ramza Beoulve.
Rey G Ark yes! If anyone loves story I would strongly suggest Tactics, IX, and VI my favorite 3 hands down
FFT is the best
We're all still waiting for a new Tactics game, Square... But seriously, I vaguely remember hearing something about Square working on a Tactics game for the 3DS early on, I think it might've been in Game Informer. Does anyone else remember that, or am I just an idiot?
I love Tactics but I've got to say, I liked Advance 2 better. For me, the games were all about the crazy builds that you can do. The addition of sidequests disguised the grind needed to get you characters to the advanced jobs. More jobs and the race system also allowed a lot more crazy OP builds whereas the OP builds in the original were just Dual Weild and Arithmetiks, a lot more boring IMO.
@GamerGirl 1 Advance 2 (FFTA2) on the DS was much better than the one on the GBA. You had much more story characters (including Hurdy, Al-Cid, Vaan and Penelo from FF 12).
You still learn skill from weapons but at least around early -mid game, you get a clan wide bonus that almost triples the rate you learn skills. This is actually one of the things that make it a lot better for me.
Just my 2 cents. I get that people may still not like it.
This franchise changed my life
I'm not afraid to admit; X made me cry as a teenager and Crisis Core made me cry as an adult.
Am I the only person who really loved Dirge of Cerberus?
No, we're just part of an extreme minority fan base.
I loved it when i was a kid
Had a friend growing up who was obsessing over it all the time, so there's at least one other person. =)
I love it as well. Currently playing it.
I’m surprised it wasn’t in this list. But I’m glad CrisisCore made it in
Vagrant Story should be on here. It is in Valendia as was in FFXII. It also was part of the Ivalice Alliance. It is actually what happens after FFXII and FFTactics.
Didn't know that. That was quite the detour they took with the franchise. 8 haven't played any of the games from that world so i'm excited to dig in.
Not a spin-off.
I definitely want a sequel for WoFF! That game was freaking adorable xD!
Least we got an expansion
Adorable but suprisingly deadly XD man too bad the vita didn't have enough Memory to have the expac,but a WOFF 2 that would be hype
I’ve played 4 of the 7 spin-offs on this list. Type-0, Dissidia 012, World of Final Fantasy, and Theatrhythm. While the main series games mostly (FF3, FF7, FF15 and especially FFX/X-2), the spin-offs are great too. From those spin-offs, Dissidia 012 is my favorite and is currently the game I’ve spent the most time with more than 450 hours
Crisis Core isn't really a spin off its canon and it's a prequel.
Ppl only say spin off bc of the gameplay
The list of mainline games doesn't go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Crisis Core, 8, 9, 10, etc.
Nothing wrong with a game being a spin off of a mainline game and serving as a prequel/sequel.
Crisis Core and Dissidia Duodecim are two of my favorite Final Fantasy games and helped open up the vast world of FF and its many worlds and adventures for me. For that, I will always love both of those titles. I still hope that Square decides to remaster Crisis Core for PS4, or PS5, whichever will be next. I know it's doubtful in the near future, with the delays to the VII remake, but I can dream, right? XD
Although, no, I still will not be able to handle Zack Fair's death. Poor Zack. :(
I'm probably the only one who likes Crystal Bearers, I know the combat is kinda weardo, but I love it anyway, and layle is a cool protagonist with damn cool powers
"small game called Chrono Trigger"
I laugh out loud.
Thats because it is a small game
I suppose it is small in that the story is about 15 hours if I remember correctly
The Tactics series (Especially FFTA) are what got me into strategy RPGs. I would have never tried that genre of games if FF didn't make one themselves. I also love the FFTA art style and OST. :)
FFTA was my first final fantasy game, and I love it to bits!
Same here, although I was spoiled on how good the job system it that I can't really get into it without that. I love how ridiculously broken some job combos are in A2.
Richard Mak Nice! FFTA was my second FF game. My first was IX which I also love to bits. :)
Lance Lindle Lee I love the job system. I love how we can have a main job and still have skills from another job we learned. I remember my first playthrough as a kid making my Marche a paladin with white mage as the second class. I always loved being the support because I loved helping the team in games so being a tanky healer was fun lol.
Yes tactics advance !!!! The job system really appealing and its such a fun moment when you manage your clan member....
The wait for FFXV was so long, you got mixed up between E3 2006 and 2016 haha. Great video, as always.
fffan11 I thought I misheard him haha! Yeah... It was well before 2016 that Versus XIII was announced. Think it was worth the wait?
Crisis Core should not be on this list. You said you were excluding sequel so prequel should fall into same category.
Rev Shad42 well he didn't said he would exclude prequels...
Direct prequel to ff7
Right? Anything tied to a main-numbered game shouldn't have been included (even though they're still technically spin-offs)
I think you mean to say that FFXIII, Versus XIII and Agito XIII were announced in 2006, not 2016.
You... would be correct haha. xD ~Darryl
No love for Tactics Advance? Probably the biggest change to the job system it brought was allowing the fans to legitimately play as an Assassin (the original FFT required some clever hacking via GameShark, and even then, only Celia was safe to use as Lede would crash the game).
Hopefully that World of Final Fantasy mobile game will be friendly for free players and not more pay to possibly win garbage (assuming that they run the freemium model)...
Also, I guess it's been said already, but War of the Lions did get ported to Android & iOS (and you'd better have LOTS of free space, this easily eats a couple gigabytes just like FF7&9).
For shame...I know you already had *Crystal Chronicles* on the list, but the spin-off of the spin-off, *CC:Crystal Bearers* on the Wii _really_ deserved that spot! It's truly one of the best in terms of innovation, voice work, and especially it's eclectic soundtrack imo. Great list though!
Maybe I can do another list for Top spin-offs of spin-offs? :D ~Darryl
Yes! That would be an interesting list, lol.
Crystal Chronicles is by far the most underrated and slept on title of the whole series. I highly recommend taking a trip to a flea market to pick up some GBAs and cables and play it with some friends. Hopefully the Switch will bring a reboot or sequel as I hoped the 3DS or WiiU would.
They did
Chocobo's Dungeon 2 is a masterwork and Chocobo's Racing should also come back
9:33 I crumbled in my seat as you said that.
You missed FF Dimensions. It's by far one of the best games Square's made since the classic FF days that every single person reading this comment has been wanting and craving since FFX. It's a deep, 60+ hour epic classic ATB job system that has many more hours of post game content that challenges your party building skills for unlockable ultimate gear. Not enough people know about it, and the few that do automatically think the wrong things when they see it. They're missing out on a game that will hook them for years and years, I my self replay it at least twice a year and have every year for the past 4 years since I tried it.
Stop reading this and go play it, right now.
genesisSOC sadly dimensions 2 isn’t nearly as good
This!!!!!!
Yeah, which really bothers me because people will see Dimensions 2, think it sucks, then think Dimensions 1 automatically sucks by proxy. Same with the bad FF5/FF6 ports using Dimensions' art style. That art style doesn't work in FF5 or 6 because 5 and 6 were designed with their original art styles in mind, so they're just getting the new style plastered on top of the existing game, but FF Dimensions was built from the ground up with that art style so it ends up working beautifully in that game instead.
People also like to complain that $15 is too expensive of a price tag for an app, meanwhile they pay $60 for games that offer far less hours of content and no replayability. $15 is so cheap for how much this game offers, it's a full fledged epic console/PC experience, just happens to be on mobile phones. It even has the prelude chapter for free so you can try it out.
Agreed. The game wasn’t quite a FFVI or even IV, in terms of story and characters, but it was still a really nice throwback to classic FF.
It’s SO nice to see that people still know about the Crystal Chronicles series!
Crisis Core is a canon prequel, whether the fans like it or not. It's not a spin-off..
Dissidia 012 didn't bring more characters for 1, 2, 3, 6, or 9.. which would have been awesome..
Firion Salamand i mean whoever said spins offs cant still take place within the same world and timeline of the orginal title
Firion Salamand the reason it's a spin-off is because it was released on a portable device, and therefore didn't have the same "quality" as an actual sequel/prequel should have.
Of the games on the list, I have played Crisis Core, Type-0 HD, Dissidia 012 duodecim, and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
Final Fantasy Tactics is easily in my top 5 favorite games ever, possibly #1.
Looks like Tabata is that kind of director that loves to break the hearts of his audience... and I love it!
About Tactics, you forgot there is Android and iOS version now avaiable, with updates graphics. And it is very same version as on PSP.
type-0 was my first FF game and boy did i get hooked. Still in my top 3
This was a great list. I had actually forgotten about that rhythm game.
My personal favorite spin offs were Crystal Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics, Crisis Core, And Dissidia 012. :)
Btw, kinda unrelated question but have you guys ever reviewed or discussed that original Final Fantasy movie: The Spirits Within? I'm always curious to hear people's opinions on that strange film. Not sure it could even be considered a spin off experience itself because of how little connection it seems to have with Final Fantasy tropes.
I'm sad no one talks about Final fantasy explorers, I really enjoyed that spin-off. Was hoping for a sequel on switch with more classes, more eidolons and more locations. Would've been awersome!
Tactics was an amazing game. Its one of my favorite games of all time. I really hope at some point that they make another game like it (that isn't the advance games).
“bravely default will not be included” GOD DANGIT
Hello, sir. One correction: the definitive version of FFT is the mobile version. It is the *only* iOS game that has done touchscreens right and it features crisper graphics than the PSP version. Trust me, don’t play any other mobile ports, but play this one.
On a more humorous note, I’m sad that Mystic Quest didn’t make the cut. Yes, it’s not particularly good, but oh so many memories and one of the few FF games that made getting new equipment and spells feel meaningful.
Still loving the content Fam~ I've been with you guys for 4 months everything you two release feels very high caliber its always a pleasure to see a new video pop up in my feed.
Thank you so much Nate! ~Darryl/Lauren
For me Dissidia on psp and Crisis Core are the best spin offs ever
the only one that I didn't play in this list is Crystal Chronicles, FFVII Crisis Core ending makes me melancholy for a while
Great list!!! Playing Crisis Core for the first time! It is SO FREAKING GOOD!
It was okay at best, Genesis goes a long way for dragging it down in terms of quality. He is the cause of most of the game's major flaws.
Nicholas Morgan that’s your opinion I enjoyed the game as well as genesis.
@@trey1215 even how he was shoehorned into the Nibelheim incident?
@@nicholasmorgan7609 he does "ruin" some parts of the game, but all in all he was an enjoyable character, and without him and angeal, the game would literally have 0 story aside from the stuff we already know from ff7, and "okay at best" is bull, the game was incredibely good for a handheld title especially in the year it was released, even if the story itself is not perfect, the game all in all is insanely good
@@yagokain4189 The Zack's first (real) mission in the game takes place at the end of the Wutai War. The game could have been missions revolving around that for the first half with Zack ending it alongside Sephiroth and then Zack could take on more missions with Sephiroth, humanizing him (better than Crisis Core had) with their final mission being the investigation of the Mt. Nibel Reactor. There's an idea for a game that would have been better than what we got with Genesis.
Funny story - my first "Final Fantasy" game was actually "The Legend of Final Fantasy III" in 1993 on the OG Game Boy which was actually part of Square's SaGa series before its name change when ported to the west to capitalize on the popularity of the Final Fantasy name here. So not really a spin off, per se, but interesting factoid how games ended up with the FF name back in the day. It was also the first time I really got to the end of an JRPG on my own 25 years ago so it holds a special place in my heart.
Final Fantasy Tactics was an awesome game. I do agree it does deserve the top of the list as best. It's also why I got a psp to begin with.
saddest endings being X then Crisis Core LMAO painfully accurate
Crisis Core is a prequel to FFVII, it is not a spin off, anyway nice pun yo :D
Haha thank you! On Crisis Core, I was on the fence about whether to include on that basis, but Square Enix classify it as a spin-off themselves, so I decided to go ahead with it. ~Darryl
I agree. Also, I'm playing Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius and though I'm not sure what he does or doesn't count as a spin-off, its very fun, has its own story and characters, and is pretty good and fair. Something that's rare to see in F2P games now-a-days.
Final Fantasy Union Ah wow that's news to me, wish they said that about FFX-2 instead, I love X-2 actually but still : (
@@FinalFantasyUnion Fucking true Crisis Core is a spin off but the story literally connects from the main game which it really does look canon
Tactics is easily the best FF spinoff ever..
I would put TheaterRythmn Curtian Call Final Fantasy#1 as the HeartNSoul of spin-off following FinalFantasy Tactics#2 for a Nostalgic Masterpiece. Rest you can put in any order after those 2 AwesomSauce game's.
Crisis core is a prequel game and I’m kinda sad that my favorite ff never made the list ff dirge of Cerberus ik it’s a sequel to ff 7 but u put a crisis core on this list
Great video that was really on point!
Crisis Core is one of my all-time favorite RPGs and Theatrhythm is easily my favorite rhythm game. I like all the others, too, with the sole exception of Type-0, which is one of the only FF games I actually dislike. It includes a lot of my pet peeves I have in RPGs, unfortunately. I personally would have replaced it with something like 4 Heroes of Light or Mobius FF, but that's just me.
We need more FFCC games
FFT is the greatest FF spin-off of all time!!!!
I haven't played FFT or FFTA but I happened to find random copy of FFTA2 and it's both one of my favourite handheld titles and favourite Final Fantasies. I admit that the story is nothing special, but the combat, RPG elements like job system, amount of content and world building are surprisingly good. The job system especially is imo one of, if not THE best in the series. If you are more of a game mechanics than story person and happen to own DS, it's definitely worth trying
Despite being a longtime fan, I haven't played half of these games. Great list!
When I was 13 I balled my eyes out when I finished crisis core.
cc got me into ff. man, that was a masterpiece, the ending got me cryin like bish :P
That pun is painful bro
Yo, you said you wouldn't count prequels and sequels. Crisis Core is clearly a prequel. That is pretty bunk. It's your list, but if you are going to set arbitrary rules you should at lest follow them.
I should have made it clearer in the video, but the fact it's a prequel doesn't stop Square Enix from classifying Crisis Core as a spin-off, just as they also classify non-numbered Kingdom Hearts titles as spin-offs. Hope that clarifies! ~Darryl
I didn't know Tactics War of the Lions was a re-release of the original FF Tactics! The original on PSone didn't actually get released in the UK back in the day, so I had to play a not-so-legitimate import copy. Tactics Advanced on the GBA was the next best thing.
At about 6:30, you say Versus 13 was shown at e3 2016, but thats absurd, FF15 was already out by then.
Where is FF Record Keeper!?
That sucks not gonna lie
I hope they do a Theatrhythm Final Fantasy for Switch including music from Final Fantasies since The 3DS Two (I.E: 15, World Of, Mobius, etc) as well as expanding on the Games featured in Certain Call as well (I'd like to see them add God In Fire to Dissidia 012 Song Selection. Worlds Collide, Limit Break & Dash to The 13-2 Song Selection. etc).
there was one on the ds that I really liked
is dissidia canon? Obviously not. But could it?
Final Fantasy record keeper is nostalgia. Ive played it everyday for years.
Final Fantasy Tactics was a great choice for this list, my 2nd favorite Final Fantasy Title. Great video Darryl.
Fina Fantasy Tactics is the game of my life. No words describe how much I care qbout this game.
Does anyone want a Warriors spin-off of Final Fantasy
I love FFTactics and Dissidia 012, they are my favorite spin offs, and my favorite FFs along with FF7. Surprisingly as much as I love 7, I hated Crisis Core, or better said, I got totally bored with it.
Crystal Chronicles is some really nostalgic shit for me.
We need another one for the Switch.
God, how I love Final Fantasy Tactics.
Chocobo's Dungeon dserved to be here too! So cute and fun and what are "Kweh!" yellow birds deserve!
So is her name officially been changed to aerith? And not her original name in the international name aeris?
I absolutely love Curtain Call.
Really liked Dissidia and Crisis Core (canon prequel by the way) haven't finished Type-0 though but liked it also
Kingdom Hearts anyone? Are the SaGa & Mana games or Vagrant Story also spinoffs? Idk until when is it still a spinoff?
I highly recommend Crisis Core and World of Final Fantasy.
world of final fantasy is HELLA UNDERRATED
Dirge of Cerberus is technically a sequel( which I wish I was better at, but I play rpgs cuz I suck at shooters). I played Crystal Chronicles a bit as a kid didn't like it that much. I'm honestly not a big fan of games that "require" you to have other people to do things. I will say that Crystal bearers is fun, and enjoyable although because it's a Wii game it's a bit janky on the controls. I beat world of final fantasy, and while I enjoyed it the game levels were bland, and I was not a big fan of the stacking system. When I played final fantasy tactics for the first time I absolutely hated how hard it was. It just seemed like enemies always slaughtered you, but I grew to appreciate the strategy. Tactics advance while I love the game honestly took the difficulty away. Crisis Core( a prequel) is amazing I'm at the end of the game haven't played it awhile cuz I was grinding/doing side stuff.
did you say type-0 was announced in 2016? that is definitely not correct.
This reminds me that I still need to finish Parasite Eve 2 and The third birthday.
Yoo keep going for 100.000 subscriber
I always thought they intended this to be pronounced theatre rhythm because yano... its a rhythm game and its set as a theatre show...
I wish there was a roguelike Final Fantasy with Gilgamesh as the main character.
That pun tho.. XD
I just couldn't help myself...! ~Darryl
Final Fantasy Union I can tell you were itching to say it XD. No wonders though, your talking a fellow pun lover :3
I never actually beat Crystal Chronicles. Time to go back and try again
what about Vagrant Story? if i'm not mistaken it takes place in the same world as FF XII
Wasn't Prische in regular Dissidia along with Shantotto?
Final Fantasy:Record Keepers
Chocobo's Dungeon
Final Fantasy:War Of The Visions
Final Fantasy:The First Solder
Final Fantasy:Brave Exvius
R my picks for good side games
As much as I wanted to I couldn’t care about any of the characters in type-0 or the story, the only fun thing in that game for me was the combat.
Megami Tensei spin offs vs final fantasy spin offs?
I feel justified in my preference of the spin offs
I miss the psp so much. I own one but I have a ton of ff on my vita now. Literally all from 1 to 10. Only one I dont have on my vita is 9
I also liked Chocobo's Dungeon
Crisis Core was okay at best. The story and a number of important characters left A LOT to be desired. The greatest desire being to rip Genesis' throat out to shut him the hell up in addition to being a very poorly written antagonist. We're supposed to feel sorry for him but he was impossible to feel any sympathy for. Then they shoehorned him into the Nibelheim Incident as the true instigator of Sephiroth's heel turn rather than what he witnessed at the reactor, reading notes and going insane. as for things I liked about the game, writing Zack to be the first SOLDIER Aerith dated was interesting. It was unnecessary, but I liked it. I also liked Zack himself, but I disliked how neither he nor Cloud were really the type to mess with people. It made Cloud seem out of character and if it was never part of his character, you'd think it would have come from Zack, but it didn't. He's just like that in the original game. I liked the gameplay as well.
My fav from this list that i have played and urge everyone else to find a way to play are world of final fantesy and final fantesy tactics. I have wanted to play crystal chronicles but i really want it to have internet Co Op.
what about Dirge of Cerberus?
LOL!
I would never tell people to pick up the PSP version of Final Fantasy Tactics. While it did clean up some text and added somethings, it suffered massive hits to frame rates when casting some spells. I would say the PS1 version, although not as polished, is a much better experience.
Where's Opera Omnia?
you forgot about final fantasy record keeper
You can also download tactics on the vita
Missed Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
no dirge of cerberus?
Stsrts at 2:21
The Ipad version of Tactics is decent as well!
Tactics is #1