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Let me see... I really got into videogames around the period of the SNES and Playstation, so my first Final Fantasy experience was bound to be VII. And I must say it's my favourite one, but, I'm not one of those people who promote it to godhood. It was a really good game but there have been better though I would say it's my favourite Final Fantasy.

I think that V was quite fun to play (the few seconds I got to play of it *sniff*) but I've surprisingly never played VI which is supposed to be like, the gamers' choice so I'm betting that it's probably very good. I've really begun to lose faith in the series though - the recent ones to me are just awful and they don't look like they're getting any better in the new one, either. D: That's just my opinion, but, I'm rather adamant about it, too.

I must say though, I still love Final Fantasy VIII, too. The plot was reasonably terrible and characters' possibly worse, but, the game itself was a joy to play. I especially loved the card mini-game - one of the most addictive things in a game ever. And the magic was fun to draw and collect.

I think favourite characters would be... wow, it's fairly hard.xD From what I've seen of VI, I think Edgar, Sabin and Relm look like fun. I also love Ultross - oh, come on, who doesn't? He's a purple octopuss who's gonna push this piano over... in just ten minutes!

As for other characters... for some reason, I'm a big Tifa fan. And I love the Turks because they're quite fun. x] Don't have many other favourites beyond them, though. Nothing springs to mind. I despise Yuna with a mighty passion though and Rinoa's not much better though she does look rather adorable, to her credit.

I think the Crystal Chronicles games are some of the best, strangely enough. I especially like the world and races they have - unique ones, I feel you don't see often and it's just fun to play. The music in them is good too. I especially liked the King game on Wii Ware where you built the town... I played it over and over again - great stuff.

*takes a breath*

I'll add more to this later, I'm sure of it.xD

Thanks to the poor treatment the UK got with regard to FF before the Playstation came out, the first one I played was a rather obscure one called Final Fantasy Mystic Quest for the SNES, an action adventure rpg which had little to do with the others.

Then came FFVII, my first real taste of Final Fantasy games. I didn't like FVIII at the time, but I too enjoy playing it now. Same with X, though I really can't stand X-2. >.>;

VI, IX and XII are my absolute favourites though. It's been almost ten years since I first played VI, but the Opera scene still sticks in my head. Kefka and his laugh too. xD

My favorites are 6 and 7. In my opinion, these two games have the best stories and the best variety of characters. I beat the holy crap out of 7.
Also these two games were the first I ever played.

8's story was pretty boring, and the gameplay was just annoying. I never beat it, but the music was awesome.

I've beaten 9, 10, and 10-2. I love 9's story, 10's was alright, and 10-2 was just a really fun game to play.

I've played 5 and 12, but never finished them.

And I've also tried 11 with my husband, but he got bored of it really fast, so we switched back to Everquest. =P

12's story was very boring. I liked the gameplay alright, but the story was just very bland.
And so were the characters.

The main character REALLY did not seem like the guy that would make a good hero.

The only character I really liked was the pirate guy and he seemed rather like a Jack Sparrow ripoff. =/

I managed to play the game up to where you have the option of going to the final place and do the final battle, but I never went there. =/

I even had all my characters up to lvl 99 (thanks to a nifty automatic level up trick I learned online).

But I really didn't have my heart in it like I did with 6 and 7. =/
Granted I never went and fought the final fight in 6 either, but at least it kept my interest up until then.
With 12 I was just waiting for it to be over. =(