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#13. Final Fantasy

I just played through this on NES a week ago, and honestly... it was pretty refreshing going back to the basics. My four ORB bearers were Warrior / Black Belt / Red Mage / White Mage.

And I genuinely enjoyed learning all the quirks of the early game through trial and error - old skool NES / Fromsouls style. You kind of just have to figure out for yourself that enemies on land give better EXP, while enemies in the water drop more gil. Items and spell slots are a huge luxury, so every battle can be a struggle. When you get the ship, the world opens up quite a bit, and it's fun to get lost and explore. And don't forget the Peninsula of Power.

That all said, the game was hilariously bugged. Half the spells didn't work, and the other half worked TOO well. I printed out the game's manual to help me, but even that sucked because a bunch of the spell descriptions were mistranslated. Gaming in the late 80's / early 90's was just the wild wild west, man.

And I know there's way better versions of FF1, but I'm an insane person so 8.3

The ranking so far
#13. FF1 - 8.3
#14. FF15 - 8.0
#15. DoC FF7 - 6.0
#16. FF2 - 3.5
#17. FF13 - 3.0