Final Fantasy IV Turns XV

Jeremy Parish, keeper of the retronaut flame, has a nice post on his personal site marking the fifteenth anniversary of FFIV. Released in the states as Final Fantasy II for the SNES, the game chronicles the adventures of dark knight turned paladin Cecil and his wacky band of cohorts. It's still one of my favorite games in the series. From the article: "Tiny sprite theatrics notwithstanding, FFIV had something called moxie. It boldly featured one of those videogame plots where things happen for seemingly arbitrary reasons and there's a lot of traveling back and forth and into dungeons on mini-quests to justify endless killing random monsters and fighting bosses. I guess that's not moxie, really. But whatever it was, it drove dark knight Cecil Harvey across the entire world, into the dwarf-infested depths and eventually to the frickin' moon, so it would be silly to split hairs."

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Re:ff7

[Canthros]

Congratulations! You're a newb of poor taste! Although FF7 is undoubtedly one of the best of the games in the series, it is certainly not *the* best, and it signals the entry of many of the later games' problems. You should really give FF6 a good look, and FF4 is, well, available now. (Personally, I think that FF6 > FF7 > FF4, but opinions vary.)

Re:Oh yeah, tons of plot emphasis in FF7-on

[BlackCobra43]

I don't think I've ever read a dumber comment in my life - and I browse at -1!