Tom Senior: There were apparently a lot of rewrites and story-shuffling during development and it really shows. Tell us your choices at the bottom, and enjoy. Since this is an argument that's been going on for years with a lot of near-identical outcomes, we've included an extra factor here-how the games' PC versions turned out informs the rankings here, since it's so inconsistent across the series. With most of the worthwhile entries on PC now-minus I and II, and spin-offs like Crisis Core-we thought it'd be a good time to discuss which mainline games are the best. And other times, it'll give you a laughing scene you'll wish you could forget. Sometimes, it'll give what might be the best minigame in history. This means the series has sometimes alternated between being an innovator and out-of-date-but it has remained more or less enjoyable for three decades.Īt its best, Final Fantasy will give you an adventure you'll never forget, a combat and progression system that you'll obsess over, or characters you'll have a real affinity for. Its ups and downs over the years have arguably been caused by its most appealing central idea: that every entry is set in a new universe, with new characters and completely different systems.
