I was at a friend's house and I was watching her play and uh ... I had to know who that beautiful dude with the long black hair was and uh

yeah, the rest is pretty much history.

omg...

I've beaten all the main FF from 7-13, as well as the two tactics games for the gameboy and both versions of original tactics

LISTEN I WAS 15

my old, full handle was miriya valentine

awwwwwwwwwww

I loved him so much I bought Ergheiz because he was in it and also his alternate costume was Turk!Vincent and Square's fighting games suuuuuuuuuuuuucked

I played 11 for like a week and got bored, I played the first incarnation of 14 and it was atrocious

I can't really judge I used to write sephiroth in kanji on my hand like every day to the point where it stained like that.......

like I shelled out for the CE and then when it got there and I started playing it I was like oh yeah, squeenix mmos

oh no that's adorable

I was mad forever that seph wasn't vincent's kid

THEIR HAIR MATCHED????

I bet there's fic out there of that

oh my god we were drowning in fic like that at the time

hell, I wrote my own

my first computer's name was hojo lmao

I just -- yeah, I know it has a lot of flaws, but I'm still all over that 7 nostalgia bullshit

but 12 is my favorite

yeah no I'm with you

I played a couple of the older ones as they were released for like ... the gameboy advance and the DS, but I wasn't as into them

(It's okay, man, I'd already come up with my handle by the time I was 14, thank god, or I would have been aurongurl or something like that)

I remember I got the uh .... first updated compliation that square had put out of 5 and 6 and I just couldn't get into them, either

the cutscenes were pretty tho

(miriya comes from miriya parino sterling, zentraedi queen badass who married my anime crush)

10 I think had the best story, literally my favorite story trope is GOD IS A LIE, LET'S GO KILL GOD so I was deeeeeeep into that one

it took me 2 tries to beat 13 because I got super bored and fell off the first playthrough ... I just wasn't a fan of the battle system, but it really was super pretty

I've got all the little side-game stuff too -- 10-2, revenant wings, stuff like that ... but I've never gotten terribly far with any of them

most of it I think is just that I've drifted away from j-rpgs as I've gotten older, and my favorite franchise is dead anyway

(thanks, konami)

oh, I've also played lost odyssey, which is uh ... more final fantasy than anything that's come out of squeenix in a decade l m a o

Squeenix might have Nomura, but Mistwalker has Sakeguchi and Uematsu