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A friend gave me the idea of making a Final Fantasy Section. So I will.
Final Fantasy 9. ( My favorite)
Introduction :
The epic tale of this intriguing story takes place in a world know as Gaia. In Gaia, there are four different kingdoms that rule over the land. The main character Zitan (Zidane) is from Lindblum. A peaceful kingdom ruled by a man known as Regent Cid. here to add your text. The neighboring kingdom to Lindblum, is Alexandria. The ruler of this more aggressive kingdom is supposedly known as Queen Brahne. She is simply attcking Lindblum only to gain more power.
Quickly, Cid designs a plan to discover the queen's future plans....and to do this, he sends a group of theives with Zitan to pose as peformers and kidnap Princess Garnet, the evil queen's daughter. With a great fanfare, the theater ship comes to a halt in front of Alexadria Castle.
Vivi then makes the scene, as he was fooled into buying a fake ticket for the evening's show. He sneaks insidefor free, via a hasty run across the rooftops. Zitan and the theives take over the theater ship and start the play. Soon, Zitan takes off to capture the princess. However, she immediately joins him, knowing that her mom is out of control. She, in turn, brings her loyal body guard, Steiner along.
Everyone escapes Queen Brahne's fury aboard the thieve's ship and beats a hasty retreat. She send her army of Black Mages after them, and they manage to force the theive's down into the Evil Forest. They make it out, barely, and manage to return to Lindblum where Regent Cid is waiting.....
Game :: Final Fantasy IX
Developer :: Square
Publisher :: Square Japan, Square EA, Infogames
Genre :: RPG
Medium :: CD
Platform :: PSX, PSOne
Final Fantasy 10
:: Introduction ::
The Story In a land called Zanarkand, there lives a boy named Tidus. Tidus is the leader of Zanarkand Abes, the greatest blitzball team to ever exist. For those of you that don't know, Blitzball is a sport that is a mix of rugby, water polo and soccer - with magic and fighting as well. The story begins where Tidus is getting ready for the big tournament, the championship of Blitzball. As he walks down to the stadium, he tells the players about his life, and who his father, Jecht is. Tidus' father hasn't been around much since his early teen years. When Tidus was a young boy, his father always picked on him, calling him things like crybaby and telling him that he'll never be good at anything; or at least not as good as his father is at Blitzball.
Jecht was the leader of the Zanarkand Abes many years before he left on a journey to who-knows-where. So, here we are back in Zanarkan where Tidus is about the begin the championship game. The game starts out where the players are ina large sphere of water. They play their hearts out, and, some literally get knocked out of the sphere. While in the background, a mysterious figure is standing high atop large pillars from a tall building. This figure, later known as Auron, to Tidus and everyone else, is watching a large tidal wave about to crush the city. Auron goes down to the city where chaos is about to begin. As Tidus is playing Blitzball with his team the large tidal wave comes crushing the stadium and begins sucking Tidus into the air. Luckily, Tidus grabs hold of a large ledge and hangs on until he falls. Getting up and out of the stadium Tidus meets Auron outside and Auron instructs him to run, keep running as far as he can.
That's all I'm going to say about the game... I don't want to give away the greatest parts. The major evil in the game is called "Sin." The people of Yevon, the religion Yevon, believe that Machina (the use of machines) is forbidden and that is what caused "Sin" to appear. To repent for their evil deeds and breaking rules, and not working hard in the world, summoners must call forth the final summon to rid the world of Sin. The thing is, Sin continues to come back not matter what. Well... everything will change when Tidus comes ashore.
Fnal Fantasy 8
An unprovoked attack against a neighboring country, an assault by a strike team deep into enemy territory, and a declaration of war against the world plunges a previously peaceful existence into bitterness and chaos. Thrust into the ensuing madness is a young man named Squall Leonhart, a cadet in the Garden military academy of Balamb. A lone wolf by the standards of others, Squall's relentless drive to become the best leads him into SeeD, an elite mercenary unit. His final test as a graduating cadet of SeeD is to settle the growing hostilities between the neighboring countries of Galbadia and Dollet. What was already a confusing set of events takes a turn for the worst when Galbadia begins its invasion on the rest of the world. For Squall, the turmoil of the world around him is nothing compared to the turmoil inside of him; his encounter with a free-spirited young woman named Rinoa Heartilly has turned his well-ordered universe upside down. As an intense man who thrives in the regimented discipline of the military academy, Squall finds Rinoa's carefree attitude fascinating. Yet there is no time to ponder these thoughts, for Galbadia's irrational hostility has been linked to a sorceress named Edea, a powerful magic user. The job of dealing with this new threat has fallen to Squall and the rest of SeeD. Focused on this new task, they can only ponder what the future will hold.
Developer :: Square
Publisher :: Square EA
Genre :: Traditional RPG
Medium :: CD (4)
Platform :: Sony PlayStation
Japan Release Date :: 02.11.99
U.S Release Date :: 09.09.99
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Final Fantasy 7
:: Introduction ::
Final Fantasy VII is one of the most anticipated games to hit the big computer screen. People still regard it is a one of the best games, even after some two or three years of it being out.
Introduction: This is a world of funfilled excitement, entertainment, love, laughter, heartache, and death. There is just no way that after you have completed the game, you will say that "I didn't like that game", and mean it. It is just impossible. Nobody realises how much time they have been spending on a silly little computer game. Well that's just it. The game is not stupid, and it is not one of those games that you play as you are about to go to sleep. You will end up being awake for a long time. Firstly, you won't be able to stop, as the plot is so immense that you just have to find out what is going to happen next. Secondly, you won't be able to get to sleep, as you will be thinking of the experience that you have just had was breathtaking. You will be thinking of what will happen next, or "oh no, I am going to finish the game to soon", when you are still only half way through the first disc. That is the beauty behind Final Fantasy, you see, the game seems to be about to finish, when suddenly a whole new storyline develops. Plus, the game is just so enjoyable, that because it is so long, you get three times as much gameplay from it as you would with loads of other games, thus saving you money because of not buying any more games. Because you see, that is the thinking behind Square. They don't want you going out and buying games from their competitors, they want you to enjoy this one game to the very max. By the time that you have finished one Final Fantasy game, because of its length and hidden extras, it will be just about time for you to buy another Final Fantasy game, which has just been released. For, providing you play it more than once, Square releases a Final Fantasy virtually every year, so you are ready to buy one in yearly intervals. And this my friends is my analogy: Once you have played one Final Fantasy, you will never play another type of game again. You won't stop until you have played and completed every single Final Fantasy. Well done, you have finally come round to my way of thinking!
Final Fantasy is not your regular RPG. It has all the usual features of one, but goes so much further than that. It makes you feel like you are there. It makes you feel like you are there when Cloud gives his first kiss to Aeris, and hands over the Black Materia to Sephiroth. This is a statement of fact "Final Fantasy VII is believed to be the best ever RPG game of all time." The CG (Computer Generated) scenes are the best to date. The gameplay is addictive. The storyline is completely sound. It is not that difficult to learn the materia commands. There is so much that I could say about it. But does it have any flaws?
Well yes, unfortunately. Because after all, all great games always have something wrong or weird about them. Everything great always did. Albert Einstein had his funny hair. Muhammed Ali, shouting "I am the Greatest" was considered weird. It is only natural for Final Fantasy to have something wrong with it. And that, my friends, are the graphics.
GRAPHICS: Yes, well, although it has the beautiful CG scenes, the characters appear to be "chunky". By this I mean that there arms and legs are sort of block shaped. They have no proper ends to them. It is like a boxing glove. They have no fingers, and their legs are pretty much the same. Fortunately, the graphics, and also the writing can be cured, with a patch which Square made after realising that the game was poor quality in those respects. Download the patch on my downloads page.The CGs sort of take your eyes away from the blocky characters. The backdrops have all been rendered beautifully. All of the mountains ranges, towns, sky, enemies, summon monsters and the players are all polygonal, so they all have their own little faults with them.
The characters have been described as having "square eyes, no noses and no mouths". I am sorry Square, but I suppose that you were just too lazy to make the perfect game that you could have had if the characters actually looked like people, and not chunks of ice!
RATING: 7/10
MUSIC: The music is absolutely marvellous. I immediately went out and bought the soundtrack from it, as soon as I found out that there was one! There are over 80 tracks (83, I checked), all of them different to each of the others, and all of them suiting the mood at that time. There are sad tunes and bouncy ones, and some to make your heart pound. Nobody makes music like Squaresoft. They all have fully orchestrated backs, and not one of them seems to ever get boring. You can download the soundtrack in winzip midi file here. The music is truly sensational, and I doubt that any other game will ever be able to top it.
RATING: 10/10
STORYLINE: Obviously, no Final Fantasy game is complete without a superb storyline. This is no different. I don't think that there has ever been such a demandingly complex plot as this. It is, I admit, a bit hard to come to grips with at the start, so if you have haven't played the game yet, here is the reason for you fighting soldiers and monsters:
Cloud is an ex-soldier turned mercenary. He has joined the undercover operation of Avalanche. Run by Barret, this group of rebels are very much like Luke Skywalker's bunch in Star Wars. They are out to thwart the plans of the Shinra Corporation, the evil fighting force which just seems to disagree with everything that the Avalanche does. Eventually, the plot switches over to catching Sephiroth, a Jenova clone, which seems to be bent on destroying the Earth……
Well, okay, you might just be sitting there now, thinking, wow! How are they ever going to get that all into one game? Well, the solution to that is to make it 3 discs long. Yes! Now you can enjoy three times as much gameplay! The story never fails to disappoint. At every point in the game there is a little twist in the plot….When you actually don't (for some strange reason) fight the Turks for once to when Aeris dies.
RATING 10/10
GAMEPLAY: The game does, I suppose take quite a while to get used to. Everything is, at first a bit of a blur really. What with materia and limits, but believe me, you quickly come round to its way of thinking. It is only difficult if you make it difficult yourself. Anyway, even if you can't work it out, you know you must, or else you will be missing out on a treat. The game cannot be beaten, although I must admit that having to battle all of time does get quite annoying, and I am sorry, but that hasn't been improved for Final Fantasy VIII either. If you persevere with it though, I am sure that you will agree that it is a superb game.
RATING: 9/10
CONCLUSION: Obviously this game has already become one of the best games of all time. There is no doubt about it that the game is wonderful. I don't think that I have ever heard anyone say a bad word about it. Well, that is mainly because you forget that it has reasonably bad graphics when you are so deeply embursed in the game that everything just seems to be so real and wonderful. I very much doubt that you won't say at the end of the game "That was Great".
REPLAY VALUE: 8/10
OVERALL: 10/10
Final Fantasy 3
:: Introduction ::
Beings of pure magic once ruled the world with power and command. But power rarely leads to contentment. A dispute amongst these beings turned into an all-out war. Beasts of doom, known as Espers, were created and unleashed to do the bidding of their masters. This "War of the Magi" reduced the world to smoldering rubble. When it ended, the Espers were gone, as was most of the world's population. Many centuries have passed since the war. Civilizations have been rebuilt with iron, machines and technology. For years the Espers existed only in ancient legends.
Now, an Esper has been discovered and the forces of magic are beginning to return. The risk of another, more devastating war is growing. What will the future hold?
Final Fantasy 4
The Red Wings was once a proud military force of the skies, commanded by the honorable kingdom of Baron. The commander of its air force, Cecil, has been given the task of forcefully taking the four crystals of earth, and is discharged from the Red Wings after questioning the King's motives. He sets out to stop the growing threat that is Baron, and in the process unveils a far more insidious enemy.
Game :: Final Fantasy IV
Developer :: Square
Publisher :: Square Japan, Square EA, Square Europe
Genre :: RPG
Medium :: CD, Cartridge
Platform :: SNES, WSC, PSX, PSOne
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