i'm obsessed with the final fantasy series, from the 7th game to the 10th game. all this ramadhan i've been playing the games again, except for final fantasy 8 which i didn't play(my brother played it) and final fantasy 9 which i dont really enjoy playing the second time.
Final Fantasy 7:
A dawn of new age for final fantasy, with feature such as ATB(active time battle), fully polygonal character, and pre-rendered background beutifully created especially for the game. i love the game, although the love story turns out to be a love triangle between Cloud, Aerith and Tifa, in the end, cloud ended up with tifa eventually after Aerith died. the 7th has its own series, which is FF7 Before Crisis, FF7 Crisis Core, FF7 Dirge of Cerberus and of course the FF7 sequel movie, Advent Children.
Final Fantasy 8:
one of the first game to actually have a character with normal proportion and the first series to actually have a voice in its soundtrack, (EYES ON ME, my favourite song, and listening now as i write). the story revolves around Squall and his friends after becoing SEEDS meeting Rinoa, trying to assasinate the Galbadian president, sent back in time to watch Laguna's past and killing some sorceress, and finally travelling to outer space.(two of which final fantasy to actually travel to space, one is Final Fantasy 7) the love story of a clod0hearted guy, with a spunky girl(one of the theme which is the same as the last final fantasy) happy ending, no girl dies except for Laguna's wife, which she wasn't killed by some antagonis, she died during childbirth. it didn't spawn any sequel, which is very boring, but no sequel is needed because it ends with a happy ending....
Final Fantasy 9:
a fantasy driven world, like the world of Final Fantasy before 7. i didn't like it too much, maybe becuase the character looks like kid, and very not proportional to anything. and the main character is a guy with tail, and the girl he loves is a princess who's mother is fat and evil, controlled by Kuja the protagonist supposedly older brother(both are actually created by some guy name Gathat actually has rland, who they call father) the game features a character in the game singing to a song, just like the previous title. the game ends happily because it was first thought that Zidane (the main protagonist of the game and not the football player) is dead because he stayes with Kuja at the end, but he is actually alive. the end shows that zidane revealed himself under the robe to Garnet(the character's love interest) and them embracing. it also show other happy scene such as, the queens bodyguard Steiner and Beatrix being together, Freya restarting her relationship with her boyfriend who apparently lost his memory, Eiko (a summoner too like Garnet) being adopted by Garnet's uncle Cid, Vivi apparently having children and Quina eating a whole lot of food. i don't really enjoyed the game because i didn't play it alone, i actually played it with 3 other people, my brother and my other 2 cousin, Mateen and Rudy.
Final Fantasy 10:
the first of the series to have the character with voice, and 3d rendered background instead of the old pre-rendered background. it start with Tidus re-telling the stories of how he ended up in Ruined Zanarkand. it tells the story love surpassed by time. the tale of summoner, guardians, Aeons, Fayth, Sin, fatherhood, friendship and love. Tidus is a star in a fictional sports named Blitzball. Yuna is a summoner, daughter of another summoner who fought the last Sin and brought the temporary calm who's guardian turned out to be Tidus's father and the present Sin. because Tidus loves Yuna, he won't let her die just for a temporary Calm, but instead find a way to actually kill Sin permenantly, without having to sacrifice Yuna's life or even Tidus's life. in the end, Sin is killed with the help of Yuna's Uncle Cid's Machina to enter Sin, and destroy it from the insie by killing the possesed Aeon that is present inside Sin, and finally Tidus killing his own father(his father wanted him to kill him to prevent the cycle of sin to continue) so after Sin dies, Tidus disappears with Sin, and Auron. leaving Yuna alone to be the last high summoner to stop Sin and brong forth the eternal Calm. it may sound like a sad ending, but the game actually has a sequel known as FF X-2.
Final fantasy 10-2:
the game continues after the first game. Yuna is famous because she stopped Sin. she's famous but not happy, as the man she loves is not there(note that Tidus is not dead) so while one day Yuna was doing what she always do at Besaid island, Rikku came to see her. Rikku along with her brother known as Brotherhas establish themselves as sphere hunters, that goesaround the world hunting sphere. anyway, Rikku came to Yuna bringing her a sphere that Kimahri found at mount Gagazet. the sphere shows a guy that looks similarly like tidus but not quite him, inside a cage. so this was where her adventure began, she left her post as the famous high summoner and joined Rikku's sphere hunting group known as the gullwings. she ditched her summoner attire and switched to a more revealling clothes that resembles Tidus's clothes in the previous game. so it went along she found other sphere, and got into other adventures, and finally found out that the guy in the sphere wasn't tidus, but actually Shuyin, another guy from zanarkand too but in a different ERA. he and his love Lenne died together but he never heard the last word that Lenne said to him, which was "i love you" he didn't heard it because he died. so his spirit was in grief over not hearing her said i love you to him one last time, and eventually his grief turned to anger and his spirit bonded with the pyreflies and formed another image of him(kinda like a spirit form) and possesed this guy called Baralai. he was plannig to use the ultimate weapon called vegnagun to destroy the world because he believed by destroying the world, the world would vanish along with him and ended his misery. but eventually Yuna and the gang destroyed vegnagun, and beated Shuyin. but of course he wasn't dead yet. so the spirit of Lenne actually came through and ended the grief that has taken over Shuyin all this time. he found out that she had always loved him and such. finally both vanished together. the ending depends on what the player did, if they haven't done a certain thing then they won't get the ultra-mega happy ending and eventually the ultimate perfect ending. the normal ending is Yuna finding out that Tidus is always in her heart no matter where he was, and she could always meet with him at the farplane. the ultra-mega happy ending is that the fayth of Bahamut, asked Yuna if she wanted to meet him again, she answered yes, so the fayth gathered up Tidus's memory within the farplane and combined it with his pyreflies thus making tidus reborn again, ashinted in the ending of FF10. Tidus wakes up underwater, like he did when he first arrived at Besaid Island. he swam up and noticed that it was the Beach in front of Besaid island.he swam to the shore and saw Yuna's airship landing near the water. Yuna ran out of the ship and embraces him like she never embraced him before. so the ending to this ending, is Tidus telling Yuna, "you've change."
Yuna:"well a lot has happened while you were gone"
Tidus:"well tell me everything about it"
Yuna:"well it all started when i saw this sphere of you..."
that was the ending to the ultra-mega happy ending . if you finished the game asecond time reaching 100%, you can get the reunion Yuna had with Tidus at the Zanarkand ruins. the most beutifully done story.... i really love this game....
this ends the sum of Final fantasy which i had played and really enjoyed all this time. all in all, i guess most tells the story of a certain group stopping some big evil forces, and finding love along the way, while having you're friend by your side to help you out. i've tried playing FF12 but the game doesn't connect to me in any way, maybe because of the name of the character, Vahn or maybe because of the storyline, but its not very enjoyable to me. so i'm kinda waiting for final fantasy 13 which is gonna gonna come out in the PS3, next year. so by next year i should at least own a PS3 or an X-box 360 to play the game....
"i'm haunted by this photograph, i don't know why, everytime i look, i get shivers down my spine, you've such a beautiful face, i know those eyes, they take me back in time...."
Shawn Hlookoff- She could be You
