Mark Danks

I have played the Final Fantasy games for years.  I am not an “old school” type of player, since I started when FF VII came out.  However, I tend to play them fairly completely…more than your typical casual gamer.  I have finished FF 1, 2, 7, 9, and 10.  I am currently playing 3 and 12.  FF 8 and X-2 just annoyed me…I could not get into them enough to play them.  The announcement of FF IV for the DS is great news to me.

FF IX is probably my favorite one, big heads and all.  One thing that I have noticed is that the characters (from an RPG standpoint) are turning into vanilla.  While FF 3 has the whole job thing, FF XII has licenses.  The problem with licenses is that each of my characters is the same.  I tend to power up all of my characters so they all have the same magic and weapon abilities.  With FF X, by about half way through, the same thing happened.  I had jumped around the board enough so that all of the characters had the same abilities.  FF IX “restricted” what characters could do enough so that they all felt different.  I really had to decide which characters to have in my party at any one time.  Toss in an art direction which I really liked, and you have my favorite Final Fantasy game.

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