It has a better cast of characters (Vivi fer crissakes!), I actually quite like Kuja.

Man the sprites in VI

They do look really lush, still. I remember not playing VI so consuming guides online about the monsters, because the sprites were shrunken down they looked amazing. I have no idea why we don't have a new FF game with HD animated sprites, I'd buy that.

I don't rate IX half as highly as all you lot. I think VIII is probably the best all rounder from the PS1 trilogy.

MattyJ wrote:

I don't rate IX half as highly as all you lot. I think VIII is probably the best all rounder from the PS1 trilogy.

I was a beast at the card game.

Well you just suck, give Freya love.

The almost endless possibilities of materia make VII hands down the best of the PS1 bunch without even considering other factors. It rewarded experimentation more than any other RPG system. And then there was all the exploring you could do - always finding new mini games, equipment, even characters - the full control of your party selection and character abilities, and then the setting and the characters.

Ok VIII and IX had the card games, but other than that no part of them lived up to VII. I don't even remember much about IX, except for its restrictions - the fog, rarely being able to fully choose your party, poor selection of summons, characters with assigned roles - and how irritating that Steiner character was.

Come on Temps, 8 was about time travelling witches and 9 was about Vivi and Quina's love story.

The story in IX stays good as long as the queen is the bad guy, then I have no idea what happens. I think I was only able to effectively use Trance once by getting virus cast on my party before the trance bar filled then removing it just before a boss battle. Every other time it would activate, then someone else would kill the last enemy and I'd never get to use it.

JonB wrote:

The almost endless possibilities of materia make VII hands down the best of the PS1 bunch without even considering other factors. It rewarded experimentation more than any other RPG system.

I remember the junctioning in XIII being very versatile, equipping death to attack so my guy could kill enemies in one punch. And all the different equipment slots and tons of support abilities available in IX. Obviously Tactics blows them all out of the water in terms of versatility, to the point it almost felt broken at times.

The biggest thing I disliked about FF VIII was how stupid it was your characters had to use their Guardian Force to use items.

Oh yeah the scalable enemies, I think I did a play through where I completed the game without going over level 25.

You did what?! Can't say I even know of those games.

Looks like a game aimed at kids.  But it's amazing!  Not as hardcore as Shiren, but pretty sweet.

Does it have Chocobos too? Can't be bothered to watch the whole thing.

Am I missing a Final Fantasy reference in there or something?