Before last year, I had only played Final Fantasy I & II in the PSX Origins collection for the numbered entries. I had also played Tactics and Tactics Advance, which I was obsessed with when they first came out.
Then starting last year I played VII (the original), Crisis Core Reunion, Final Fantasy III (Pixel Remaster), and I’m currently mostly through IV.
VII never captured my imagination as much as it probably would have in the '90s, but I enjoyed it. I had this impression of the game taking place entirely in a cyberpunk world, and I was slightly bemused to discover that only the first quarter of the game is like that. After that it becomes a standard Final Fantasy game. I did laugh when
end game spoilerthe kaiju attacks started and they started playing a riff on the Godzilla theme music.
I mean, what a weird and eclectic game. I think it would have been stronger and more cohesive if it stayed in the cyberpunk theme rather than switching gears to bright and sunny, chocobos, and snowboarding…