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i think 8 has the best setting of the three. The characters are believable but potentially frustrating. They're all messed up because the director watched neon genesis evangelion. one reason people dont like it is because it's easy to accidentally play the combat in a way that makes it unfun (i.e., spamming summons, drawing 300 of everything, forgetting to draw at least once from each enemy type are all traps). but if you avoid those traps, and avoid getting angry when the characters have personalities and are short-sighted, i think it's great

9 was explicitly a knee-jerk reaction against the 'emo' hybrid magipunk style of ff6, 7, and 8 and a reversion to elizabethan-style fantasy- everything is an homage to the NES games. in my opinion this was to its detriment. the combat is way too slow. i'd only play if there's an emulator-style fast-forward button. vivi is cool.

15's story is almost coherent and the controls are in that weird middle ground between rpg and action rpg that doesn't actually let you move in a fun way. i really like the idea/high-level pitch of a road trip but so much gets in the way of the fun

my ranking goes
6 > 7 > 10 > 8 > 9 > 12 > 15 > 4 > 5 > 13 > NES

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