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Final Fantasy III (Switch) Setting Traditions of a Franchise (Final Fantasy III (Switch) - Title Screen) Intro (Final Fantasy III (Switch) - Clear Screen)     Final Fantasy III marks the end of the NES era of the mainline Final Fantasy series. Where FFI was the start of the franchise, and FFII was the game where the devs tried different things to push and evolve the series, III was the moment where the devs started to set the series traditions, taking several things from the first game, and taking a couple of things from II, making III a Famicom RPG that is a little more interesting in what it accomplishes. I'm going to say this now, Final Fantasy III is probably my favorite of the NES era, with the first being a close second. And in this post, I'll tell you why, from the gameplay, and story, and how it evolves the series forward into its close future.     But first, before I go in on why I like FFIII, I want to talk about, something that happened during the making o...

Final Fantasy II (PSP) A Mixed Execution Sequel (Final Fantasy II (PSP) - Title Screen) Intro (Final Fantasy II (PSP) - Clear Screen)     Final Fantasy II is the next step in my goal of playing through every mainline game in the Final Fantasy series. Going from I to II was an interesting contrast between the two. Where the first one was very charming in how simple it was for the first game in this franchise, the second one tries to do things to reinvent itself and to try and evolve. And as the title shows, I see it as a mixed bag, not good, and not really bad in how they execute these changes, all of which I'll talk about in this post. History (Final Fantasy II (USA) - Box Art)     Final Fantasy II is definitely the weirdest when it comes to the numbering of the mainline games. Mainly, when the games originally came out. This is something some of you might have heard of before reading this, but for those who don't know, when FFII came out in the US in 1991, it was ac...

 Final Fantasy (PSP) A Charming Start to a Legend (Final Fantasy PSP - Title Screen) Intro      When it comes down to RPGs, one of the big boys in the space is undoubtedly the Final Fantasy franchise. With 16 mainline games, one released this year, two massive MMORPGs with Final Fantasy XI and XIV, and the many... and I mean... many side games that have been released under the Final Fantasy name. (Comp Image from COGConnected Final Fantasy Article)      It's hard to think of RPGs without thinking about Final Fantasy, it's like thinking about Mario without Luigi, or Xbox without Halo. Recently, I've made it a point of playing through every Final Fantasy mainline game, due to the release of Final Fantasy XVI, and also because it's been a little overdue for games I need to play. The first game took me a little over a month to beat, with an in-game time of 24 hours and 57 minutes, in this review I'll talk about the game's history, story, presentation, and ...