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UnfairRepresent posted...

I haven't played 13 (Well for more than a hour) and 15 so I can't comment on that but 12 is way better.

At least 12 felt like a fantasy game with grand ideas and not a high school drama where extremely boring people (all but 1 of which literally have the same backstory) enact the most tired and cliche time travel/generic villain plots that were stale in the 90s, there was so little creativity or imagination on display which is so rare for a Final Fantasy game and it had an immensely boring and poorly thought out Draw, Combat, Leveling, Limit Break, Weapon Crafting, Money Earning system.

Who the fuck designs a game where it gets harder if you level up so the pragmatic way to play is to fight as little as possible and the best way to earn money (which has no real use) is to just leave the console on all day and walk away? Where you can just have low HP and turn skip to do Limit Breaks forever and cheese the entire game?

Even the sidequests in 8 were lame.

I'd take the Hunts in XII over the stupid alien things or having to fight 16 boring Tonberrys in a row to get a summon.

Didn't VIII have that one boss that starts out with an unblockable attack that does 9,998 damage to all party members? So you HAVE to have max HP or use a Holy War to not instantly get a game over? Talk about a beginners trap. That's just lazy design worthy of an early 80s arcade coin stealer.

Laguna is pretty much the only thing that saves that game and he's barely in it

Your praising 12, but it literally did the same thing.... less than a month of the original game coming out on the PS2 people designed a gambit set up which allowed the game to play itself while you slept. It couldn't advance the story, but beat the hardest boss in the game Yiazmat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3w8w28DyO4&ab_channel=%E8%B5%A4%E5%BA%A7%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3

You also say that 12 has the better story, but I call bs on that. You essentially have 3 stories in the game with everyone else being a side character despite one of them(Balthier) being far more interesting than the rest of the cast.

Vaan and Ashe forget the reason they are journeying, Vayne is never in the story, the only consistent is Basch and Larsa. Which even they can't save the game.

The only worse villain than Vayne is Ardyn from FF15, but that was because they didn't connect Kingsglaive and the actual game.

And I get that I come off as bitter, but it was such a waste of time as a FF game. At least 8s story, even at the expense of being hot garbage, is consistent. The characters each have their own reason to journey, the main villains are always present in the story to show why they are a driving force, and up until the part where Ultimecia is introduced, its actually a very well made story, with the first disc being imo the best introduction for any Final Fantasy game.