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Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy XV

Posted by Mike Salbato on January 9, 2018

Final Fantasy XV Memories: Super Eos Bros. by Peter Triezenberg It’s more-or-less impossible to divorce Final Fantasy XV from its inordinately long development. I was in seventh grade when this game was first announced as Versus XIII, and by the time the game was in my hands, I had graduated from co… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy XIII

Posted by Peter Triezenberg on January 5, 2018

Final Fantasy XIII: Blinded By Lightning by Peter Triezenberg Final Fantasy XIII is a difficult game to defend. It’s got serious problems, born from its tumultuous development and a lack of oversight from the developers. Yet, it’s also the first game I played on a newly opened PlayStation 3 back in… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy XI

Posted by Derek Heemsbergen on December 29, 2017

Final Fantasy XI: Camaraderie by Derek Heemsbergen I lost a lot of my life to Final Fantasy XI. Then again, I lost a lot of my life to every Final Fantasy that came before it, too. I spent much of my childhood and adolescence immersed in RPGs, drinking deep of their narrative draughts to escape the… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy XII

Posted by Robert Steinman on December 29, 2017

Final Fantasy XII: Better Late Than Never by Robert Steinman Final Fantasy XII should have been the Final Fantasy game made for me. It had the director of Tactics, a fantastic new artstyle, and a complicated new battle system based around strategy and careful planning. I was super excited to play it… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy IX

Posted by Alana Hagues on December 19, 2017

Final Fantasy IX: Tonight We Dine on Whale Zombie by Alana Hagues Final Fantasy IX was one of the first games I was ever good at. I’ve got really fond memories of training up each of my eight characters, making sure everyone had learnt all of their skills. It was incredibly rewarding, especially as… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy X

Posted by Alana Hagues on December 19, 2017

Final Fantasy X: Comeuppance by Alana Hagues Oh, America. I remember how you wished you could play the international version of Final Fantasy X. You had to wait until 2014 to get your hands on all of the nasty challenges waiting for you. Me? Well, I had to experience them when I was nine years old.… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy VIII

Posted by Mike Salbato on December 15, 2017

Final Fantasy VIII: Air Bud VIII: Time Kompression by Mike Salbato Having not played Final Fantasy VIII since 1999, I’m hazy on many aspects of the love-it-or-meh-it game today, but one thing I’ll never forget is my battle against Ultimecia, the biggest, baddest sorceress this side of Esthar. She ha… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy VII

Posted by Rob Rogan on December 15, 2017

Final Fantasy VII: Step Aside, NBA Live by Rob Rogan When Final Fantasy VII came out in 1997, I’d been gaming since I was a wee lad playing Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out and Tecmo Bowl on the NES. It was a hobby I enjoyed, and I dabbled in various genres, but I hadn’t played many RPGs. Then, on that fatefu… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy V

Posted by Robert Fenner on December 5, 2017

Final Fantasy V: Cartography FTW by Michael Sollosi Final Fantasy V’s world map is an exercise in foreshadowing. In the first two-thirds of the game, players traverse two separate worlds and may notice a veritable gallery of inaccessible areas: a pyramid in the center of an impenetrable desert, a te… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy VI

Posted by Mike Salbato on December 5, 2017

Final Fantasy VI: Shaved Moogles by Mike Salbato I adore Final Fantasy VI, which some of you may already know from comments I’ve made over the years. But my fellow editors will likely have better-written prose to sing the praises of my favorite Final Fantasy. Instead, like I did in 2010 when I envis… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy III

Posted by Peter Triezenberg on November 28, 2017

Final Fantasy III: Get a Job by Peter Triezenberg Fun fact: Final Fantasy III was the first game in the series I played to completion (on the Nintendo DS, thankfully: I’m not planning on going anywhere near the Famicom original). That’s not to say it’s one of my favorites, per se, but I do have… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy IV

Posted by Alana Hagues on November 28, 2017

Final Fantasy IV: To the Moon, Rosa! by Alana Hagues As a kid, I can’t think of anything else that fascinated me more than space. To think that there was something beyond the clouds completely blew my mind when I was younger. But there was no way I’d be able to get there in this day and age, not wit… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy

Posted by Michael Sollosi on November 21, 2017

Final Fantasy: Transformation by Michael Sollosi I wasn’t terribly impressed with the original Final Fantasy the first time I played it. I had played through parts of Final Fantasy IV with a friend at a sleepover, but in 1994 I only had the regular NES. I was desperate to play more of these mysterio… Read More »

Memoria: Our Favorite Final Fantasy Memories and Moments – Final Fantasy II

Posted by Robert Fenner on November 21, 2017

Final Fantasy II: Hostility Breeds Innovation by Robert Fenner Final Fantasy is one of those grossly monumental series with a reputation that each successive release is more divisive than the last. However, one opinion that the majority of the fanbase shares is a seething hatred of Final Fantasy II.… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Borderlands 2

Posted by Dom Kim on September 7, 2017

I don’t think anyone was expecting much out of Borderlands 2’s story when it hit shelves in late 2012. If Gearbox’s previous efforts proved anything, it’s that writing coherent storylines or compelling characters is not their forte, and that the random loot generation and guns that shoot exploding s… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Final Fantasy VII

Posted by Neal Chandran on September 7, 2017

Final Fantasy VII was a watershed title not only in terms of opening the floodgates for JRPG localization in the Western Hemisphere, but was also a personal watershed title for many of our individual gaming histories, mine included. A huge part of why Final Fantasy VII is a personal icon lies in its… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Final Fantasy XII

Posted by Nicholas Ransbottom on September 7, 2017

Final Fantasy XII’s tale of a political power struggle in a land plagued by war is nothing groundbreaking; the premise is common and has arguably been done better. Still, while reviewing the remastered version of the game, The Zodiac Age, I found myself far from bored. The overall plot might have be… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Koudelka

Posted by Hilary Andreff on September 7, 2017

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a bishop, a psychic, and an baron/author from the 1800s* walk into a haunted monastery, where they must then learn to work together to unravel its dark secrets and correct the hideous deeds that occurred there in the past — if they want to escape alive. This is the… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Mass Effect 2

Posted by Nathan Lee on September 7, 2017

One thing I knew right away when I was asked which game had the best ensemble of characters, my answer was the Mass Effect series. However, there was a problem for me: I couldn’t pick the series as a whole. I had to narrow down which game from the series had the better characters. Was I a bigger fan… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Persona 4

Posted by Michael Sollosi on September 7, 2017

WARNING – Spoilers for Persona 4 follow. Most Persona games can be summarized as follows: a Japanese town experiences a supernatural event, which escalates into a world-ending threat, and the planet’s only hope is an unlikely group of teenagers. In Persona 4, the Japanese town is the sleepy, rural I… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Resonance of Fate

Posted by Marcos Gaspar on September 7, 2017

Want to know how to grab my interest before I play a game? Show me your main characters performing gun kata against one another to culminate in a post-fight execution. That’s what Resonance of Fate did before I even hit start on the controller. It was a bold move to start off with that kind of image… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Tales of Vesperia

Posted by Alana Hagues on September 7, 2017

The Tales series is one of the best examples of a series with consistently fun and enjoyable characters. Each entry manages to deliver a cast that I’ll remember for years to come. No other cast has stood out more than Tales of Vesperia’s: they’re a bunch of mismatched individuals who form an unlikel… Read More »

Favorite RPG Casts & Characters: Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Posted by Robert Fenner on September 7, 2017

Often, when we think of a memorable RPG ensemble, we tend to think of the hero and their party: the friends and allies we meet along the way assembled into a merry band on a collective mission of world salvation. And with good reason; whether it be the larger-than-life BFFs of Persona 4, or a blank-… Read More »

The Best Games of the PlayStation Store: PSOne and PS2: Part Three

Posted by Mike Salbato on September 11, 2016

The RPGFan team put our collective heads together to vote on the staggering range of retro RPGs that Sony made available on the PlayStation Store between 2006 and 2016, and they came up with a list of the 30 best games of the PlayStation Store that are worth your time. Now that the current generatio… Read More »

The Best Games of the PlayStation Store: PSOne and PS2: Part Two

Posted by Mike Salbato on September 11, 2016

The RPGFan team put our collective heads together to vote on the staggering range of retro RPGs that Sony made available on the PlayStation Store between 2006 and 2016, and they came up with a list of the 30 best games of the PlayStation Store that are worth your time. Now that the current generatio… Read More »

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