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Final Fantasy

From the moment you insert a Final Fantasy game into your video game console, you know you're in for a treat. Earlier games in the series had great stories and action; once new gaming platforms came out, graphics and music improved. Each one just tops the last. CD (and now DVD) quality audio, beautiful characters, full-screen movie segments, music that sticks in your head for ages after your leave the screen, anywhere from 20 to 50 hours (or more for those of who like to explore and also have a job to distract us from time to time) of gameplay in each installment. . . .

Add on the availability of full soundtrack albums and collections, shelves of action figures, models, and statuettes -- there are just too many things for a realistic wallet to handle.

Story Intro

This could potentially be a long section, as each game (and the movie) has its own separate and mostly-unrelated story. I'll focus on a couple of the later games that I found fairly addictive, and of course the movie.

FF Tactics -- A young squire and a knight fight to change the world after a war disrupts the land, but find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle. This is a sort of super-enhanced animated chess game (chess has 6 "jobs", FF Tactics has 20; chess uses a flat board, FF Tactics has terrain) with bits of plot and intrigue as the player works his way around the medieval maps.

FF X -- A young blitzball player sees his city destroyed by a huge entity called Sin, and is pulled into a far-future world of magic where machines are outlawed. His father disappeared ten years ago, and folks here say that Sin was defeated around that time, and was reborn. Characters have voices for the first time in this installment.

FF: The Spirits Within -- A scientist seeks to prove a heretical theory, that the Earth itself has a soul which is being destroyed by military forces battling against an alien invasion. The movie takes some themes from the games (FF VII's Earth-damaging equipment) and gives it a science-fiction treatment without the magical aspects.

Other Notes

SquareSoft's official site is http://www.squaresoft.com/ (requires Flash plugins, sorry).

One of my favorite unofficial sites has to be http://www.ffonline.com/

Another site that focuses on the FF VI game (FF III in the US), is http://www.geocities.com/final_fantasy_shrine/.


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