I've really been enjoying all the Final Fantasy games I've been playing lately. My original plan to marathon the series is starting to look not quite so unreasonable, although I think I'm still definitely going to skip a few. I played Final Fantasy I and II and also played through Final Fantasy V in co-op. I'm a little under halfway through a Final Fantasy VI romhack with that same co-op partner. I have very little desire to play Final Fantasy III again so I doubt I'll revisit it. To be honest, I'd love to play the Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection because it comes bundled with The After Years, a mini-sequel of sorts. I've never played it and it looks pretty fun!
There's a pretty good chance that we'll try a co-op run of Final Fantasy IX if we ever manage to get under the same roof again. It's one of those games that I think I've only played through once and I definitely wouldn't mind revisiting it as I liked it a lot. I've even flirted with the idea of playing FFVII and/or VIII again since I'm in such an FF mood. The fact remains that I need to finish 4 Heroes of Light (which I should have been working on today) and then move on to Bravely Default, which despite the title definitely belongs to the FF pantheon.
Aside from that, there is the looming giant that is Final Fantasy X, which for reasons unknown to me I have never attempted to seriously complete. FFXIII-2 is sitting there waiting to be finished as well. I can't say I lost interest in it at all but I was suddenly seized with an uncontrollable urge to tame this series from start to finish. I have now played and finished every Final Fantasy from the first to ninth, as well as XII, XIII, and the Tactics series. What else is there in the way of side games? There's Final Fantasy Dimensions for iOS and Android which I certainly wouldn't mind investigating one of these days if I had the cash. There's Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest which I would play strictly only for completionist purposes.
One series that I haven't dipped my foot into at all is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles but I was under the impression that series was very much tailored to multiplayer. If I'm mistaken--great, maybe I'll check some of them out. There's also several Compilation of Final Fantasy VII games I haven't played, like Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus. If I were to play those I'd definitely have to play through FFVII again because it's been many years since I last played it. Of the two I'm much more interested in Crisis Core since Dirge of Cerberus is, by all accounts, a pretty mediocre shooter.
I've been thinking about the series a lot lately. I've had an idea in my head that I really like about a game--or possibly a romhack I guess--that unites characters representing each of the main Final Fantasy titles. Each of these characters would exhibit mechanics from the games in question. A Final Fantasy I character would be allowed to switch between jobs like Monk, Thief, Warrior, and White Mage and be able to promote to a higher tier of those classes after a certain point (or level). A Final Fantasy II character would gain stats by performing certain actions instead of leveling up. Maybe a Final Fantasy IV character would be able to choose from a pool of abilities from that game like Recall, Aim, White Magic, Jump, etc. Maybe he/she could set a certain number of these abilities as well.
I think the most challenging aspect of creating a game like this (aside from the obvious knowledge required to do so) would be in incorporating elements from Final Fantasy XIII. How would Ravagers, Commands, etc be included without affecting the balance of other characters? Would each character be assigned to a certain role? Would black mages be Ravagers, white mages be Medics, etc? The character in question would of course be able to switch between these roles whereas others would be determined based on their class or archetype from the game they starred in, perhaps.
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