Final Fantasy Team Wants To Hear Your Thoughts About The Series

They need to curb their obsession with cutting edge graphics and spectacle, lower their expectations for a smash hit, get down to basics and make a fun game.

I kinda hope they make more M rated FF games, but with actual good character writing.

I still hoping more kids friendly Final Fantasy games in the future like World of Final Fantasy, FF 3 NDS, Chocobo Mystery Dungeon, FF Tactics A2, etc.
I hate the route of become too mature with inappropriate things from FF 15 & 16.
I HATE THEM.
And please No ovelmilking FF 7 franchise.
I don't even like FF 7.

final fantasy not going backwards they will always have cutting edge graphics lets just hope switch 2 is capable of playing there newest games..

just finished 16 last week and was very disappointed

An ‘Everyone’ rated Final Fantasy in a classic fantasy theme.
Oh, out of stock?
Ah well.

Final Fantasy is probably my favourite series in gaming.

I hope they listen to the fans.

I just want a turn based mainline Final Fantasy that isn’t chasing trends like XVI or trying to be an action game. I fell off the series with XIII and they haven’t pulled me back since. I used to live for the next FF.

I'd like to see them take a page from Final Fantasy IX and go back to the basics while still doing something new. Take a bit of a more creative direction in graphics rather than realistic.

Would be awesome if combat was turn based again too, but I know it isn't the most popular gameplay mechanic these days... If you make it action based, all I ask is that it is fun and satisfying.

Turn based combat is becoming so popular lately, they MUST return the series to its roots.
Final Fantasy XVII should be with a turn-based combat, not a open world, and hopefully with a fantasy-medieval setting, like FFIV, IX and XII, less dark and more colorful.

I asked for

• FFTactics Advance on NSO
• FF12MMO
• More Final Fantasy spinoffs with multiplayer! Whether that's a CC reboot or a cozy Tactics Advance sequel with online multiplayer, I just want more spinoffs with a beautiful, relaxing medieval fantasy setting.

-A proper Crystal Chronicles port that doesn't take all the charm outta multiplayer.
-More Theatrythm DLC, but make them the beautiful songs, not just the crazy rock vocal ones.

I would love to see something materialize from this questionnaire, namely some proper sequels to older titles like Tactics, and new titles with some old-school appeal!

@the_beaver The character design in IV was great, the use of unique colors for each party member made it stand out for me.

A Final Fantasy Tactical !
Please

I hope everyone asking for 17 to return to its roots picked up Fantasian: Neo Dimension 😅

Let them know I thought the Battle System in FFXVI was pants. Also said we needed a full-on remake of FFV (FFVII: REMAKE/REBIRTH style!) and a 2D-HD remake of CHRONO TRIGGER.

@FishyS this is unrelated but i saw you in my topic!!!!!!!!!

I love me a turn-based RPG, but I'm open to action as well. I just want a proper Party, in some form. And non-human looking characters again (outside of VII) would be nice!

The FF series is basically dead to me at this point (unless FFT gets some sort of wizardy remake that somehow makes me change my view on cash grab re-whatevers) but I will always go back and revisit 7,8,9 and 10 via emulation every once in awhile as they're cozy, plus you'd be surprised how good FFX looks upscaled 8x.

No option for FFTA / FFTA2 / FFTR / Revenant Wings……

I used my survey response to tell them I want to see the headliner games like FF7R series and FFXVI on Nintendo consoles. I also told them that my first game in the series was FF4, I still prefer it to other FF games, and that I'm looking forward to FF x MtG.

Can I tell them the games are getting too long and bloated and no longer can I commit one of my less-than-hundred years on this earth to an (admittedly great) single game?

Are they still doing random encounters? I was weaned on Chrono Trigger and SMRPG which don't have those and can't go back.

@Greenmanalishi I couldn't agree more.
Final Fantasy was religion to me till FF13, which was a mess and they couldn't recover after it.
bad written characters and stories, clunky battle systems etc.

@somnambulance may I ask how old you are?
I just can't believe that someone who played 6,7,8,9 and 10 could some how believe that the modern games are better. I could make a long list why they aren't.
that being said I don't want to ruin your fun with it, it's great that you like those games.

Well I got a chance of dissing their modern vision of turning the main series into action movie games, so I'll take it.

Unless they decide to go back to their original turn-based RPG roots I don't see myself playing any of these newer games.

It's generally their lower budget games where Squeenix thrives these days.

If you want me to buy your games, please return to a USK 12 or lower rating and please no more modern audience stuff.

I hope I can look forward to great games like Visions of Mana, Square Enix.

I don't know if they really do, coming from a fan of the series that regards FF 5 - 10 as masterpieces. I love that series but they need to make a step back to make two steps forward.

Finished. I wrote at the end the bring the remaining mainlin titles to Switch 2. I didn't specify which ones, but I refer to FF 13 Trilogy, 15, mayyyybe 16, and of course the famous 14. Could we see, for the first time since 6, a mainline title releasig day 1 on a Nintendo console at the same time as the other platforms? Who knows, but with Square wishing for less exclusives, there's hope!

I’ve never seen the appeal of FF games. I’m more DQ than FF

7 Remake - fantastic
8 unsure -
9 The style absolute deserve Remake
10 Perfect
11 ( make a offline game )
12 Perfect
13 Gameplay issue
14 ( make a offline game )
15 Reboot it
16 unsure -
Dissidia ( remake )

I wish they would go back to one game per story and cast. It's been downhill badly ever since they started breaking that convention. Also it would be nice if they'd get off the idea of making some grand experience rather than a fun game, and move away from awful convoluted stories. But that has been the standard for the series longer than it hasn't. A collection of older game versions rather than those lousy Pixel Remasters too.

Y'know, stuff they'll never do. But I'm cool to stick with the old games when this was a series I followed closely.

Didn't finish FFVII Remake. Playing through the original's Midgar slums years ago I don't remember thinking "I wish this section was 20 hours long and had more cat finding".

We have the classic FF games (1 - 10 IMO) on Switch, the others feel more like spinoffs to me and, maybe unpopular, even in 10 things seemed to be heading in the wrong direction (world map?)

SMT and it's various branches overtook FF as the leader in JRPGs years ago in my opinion. Time to get back to its roots and basics.

@Lord final fantasy total game sales are close to 100 million more then dragon quest so they are very appealing..

@Grackler I'd argue that these are the true inheritors of FF I/III/V/Tactics/IX/TA/TA2/TR, following the Job system and art style of these earlier titles!

@somnambulance

I’ve been with the series for a long time as well, and 3-9 are absolute legends while 10 and 12 were harder for me to get into. 13 was a slog of hallways with awesome combat ideas sprinkled in (13-2 was fantastic though), 15 was garbage to me, and I don’t have a console to try 7:R or 16.

I’m just glad we have some turn based games, like Octopath and Bravely Default, to scratch my old school final fantasy itch because they’ve changed too much for my interest

@Grackler

I loved 4 Heroes of Light, such a cozy little game. It does seem to spike in difficulty but that’s my only gripe

@marandahir
FFVII remake and rebirth are 2 of the games i would love to see make it to "switch 2" (along with the third game) since they were the most fun ive had with single player FF in years and out of all the ones with real time combat i found it handled it the best by adding ATB mechanics and the like rather than being pure hack-n-slash.

@Classic603
yeah 4 heroes of light is definitely something i would love to see remastered.

@somnambulance
Honestly the one thing from the past i did feel was missing during the post 12 years which i felt FFVII rebirth nailed was the towns and having the world feel more lived-in, with XV and XVI the world kind of felt more like a backdrop and a lot of places you didnt get to visit wheres rebirth was full of towns with things to do in them and buildings to enter.

@WhiteTrashGuy
am glad to see FFV get some love though with that one i would love to see a remake stay closer to the original though also maybe add some new jobs kind of like how the GBA one did and bring back a bonus dungeon full of bosses kind of like that one.

@somnambulance
For me with FFXV i think it was one of those games which i enjoyed it for what it was but its troubled development definitely showed, it had a massive amount of pre launch hype too and for me i would have loved to have seen more of its world (Tenabrae in the final game was one of the biggest teases ive seen)

from what i gather remake did also have some trouble during development and in its case i imagine splitting the game into parts did help since when rebirth came around it definitely gave the impression of being more confident. im definitely curious to see what they have in store for part 3 (FFVII:revengence) maybe..(SPOILERS FOR ORIGINAL GAME) the weapons being awakened and causing havoc will result in more changes to the world in this (there were some holes and whatnot in the environment in the original)

@somnambulance I actually wasn’t meaning that in a negative. I’m happy with the state of Final Fantasy.

I was meaning. “I hope they actually listen to feedback and our time wasn’t wasted.”

I’m currently part way through 16 and initially I didn’t like it, but have warmed to it. Turns out if you make the difficulty harder and remove the auto combo items it makes the combat a lot more fun.

I loved the Remakes also. FF7 is my top FF game and the remakes have only added to that.

As for 15. I started it when it launched, played for 5 hours and wasn’t feeling it. Heard loads of negative about it. Then went back to it earlier this year and it was my most played game in 2024 at 115hrs. It’s my first Final Fantay with a Platinum and I thought it was amazing. Especially since I played the Royal Edition and watched the movie and anime and completed the story in order thanks to a guide.

I’m not hating on the series or wanting them to go back. I just hope that we as fans can have some positive input.

@Mgalens
Still have my GBA and PS1 copies. V is just this great fantasy epic. It really was the final fantasy as, after that, future-tech started seeping into the games. I feel like V would benefit the most from a modern remake, but I would be happy with HD-2D as well.

I want every FF from 7 onward as an HD 2D remake please xD but I'll never get it-.-'

@WhiteTrashGuy

FF 5 might not be the best story or have the best characters, buts it’s a FUN game. The job system and classes are just fun to use

@Classic603 I agree with that too. FF5 has a lot of replay value thanks to the job system. The game is in my top 3 favorites, along with FF6 and FF9.

What I desperately want is FFVI hd2d and a proper sequel to FFXII.

I mean let's face it that game is the last time the series was really good. At the time SE wanted to see this episode as the black sheep of the series but it was nothing but. Retrospectively and looking at what works in nowadays jrpgs and what doesn't, it's pretty clear that in fact FFXII was rather like a huge signpost showing the series how to evolve with newer gaming conventions on newer hardware and most importantly WITHOUT compromising itself.

Instead they chose to ignore it. How sad.
So let's get that series back on track. (and revive Ivalice while we're at it)

I haven't been hardcore with Final Fantasy since the father of Final Fantasy left Square and Square left Nintendo originally. With that, I enjoyed 1-6 the most. The only thing I wouldn't mind seeing is a remake of 6 in 3D.

@somnambulance yeah, I think Noctis has some amazing character growth and the journey and friendship of the four of them (the Chocobros) was extremely well done.

The thing is I think in order to get to that you have to have a guide and watch and read the extra stuff. If it was all in the game it would be better.

Ask them to remake FF6

-Lovingly remaster Final Fantasy IX.
-Make Final Fantasy XVII turn-based again.

That is all I ask.

I am really enjoying these comments. Good to see the varying opinions and experiences.
Honestly, for me personally, I enjoy the changes Final Fantasy has experimented with exception of when they’ve decided to go into the M/PEGI 18 range. There are plenty of games that cater to that audience, but having Final Fantasy go that route was extremely disappointing for me (again personally).
I have played Final Fantasy since the early 90’s, and have enjoyed most of its iterations for what they were. I adore IX, love XII, actually quite liked XV, and semi-regularly rotate through all the offline games I-XV (well not so much XIII these days, but I attempt for short bursts at a time…). I didn’t even touch XVI, due to the rating - I try to play games that I don’t have to apologize for in front of my kids. I’d take a T version…
XV, as divisive and convoluted as it is, told a great story. Noctis grew up, as was mentioned in an earlier comment, and the story delivered.
Have recently spent a lot of time with VI. It’s such a great game. Wish the Pixel Remasters would have included the extra content. I loved having something to do in each game I-VI that really pushed my party end game.
Tactics remaster/release is long overdue. A IX overhaul would be amazing. I would take a patch for the game (as well as VII and VIII) that improved the CGI backgrounds and raised the frame rate in battle. Actually the Chrono Cross rerelease has become my favorite version of that game because of the frame rate improvements, the additional material and options, and the art. The Final Fantasy rereleases would have benefited from that type of love and attention post release.
Overall, there is a lot to love about the series, and definitely some ways to bring back that excitement, but it probably requires that SE goes back to their roots. A battle system like that found in ReMake and ReBirth would be great for the next entry, but I’d take a turn based game as well. Maybe not random encounters though…😉

Id love to see FF Tactics advance on switch. Maybe with the DS tactics game too thrown in.

My favorite in the series is FF 15.
I did enjoy FF 13, 6, 8, Tactics, but 15 takes the lead.
I would love to play FF 14 but not into the pay monthly thing.
They should probably remake all from FF to FF 11 so that they can all shine equally as a lot of them are vastly different games and styles. But, I like that. I like having choices and differences.

Kind of tired of remakes in general. Remaster the older games with archival material, sure, but put the developers on to new games and worlds.

I have very little faith in the series. I used to love it and I still like 1-13.

But it's just turned into action games with an RPG skin. Whole also taking 6-7 years per entry. I'm not waiting til 2030 to see them attempt to pass off an entirely alien game as Final Fantasy 17.

@johnedwin They've tried to be cutting edge but if the sales decline (and they have) then they have less and less room to increase the budget as their profits drop.

It's reached the point where they've hid the sales of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

Love to see a straightforward graphical remake of FFIX which retains the same proportions/aesthetics/music of the original and without all the extra bloat of the FFVIIR games.

@ScalenePowers Fantasian is quite the gem indeed.

@mlt XII is indeed underrated, Star Wars FF is one of my favorites.

As strange as it sounds XIII is my second favorite, partly also because it was my first Final Fantasy. Would love them to release Lightning trilogy on all platforms again. She rocks.

@Zaruboggan Oh crap, shouldve added that too, FFCC with proper multiplayer, but I was too busy with FF6 2D-HD wishing.

The fact they still haven’t brought over Tactics in any way is inexcusable

On a personal note I want an FFVIII Remake

That's nice of them to do that.

I just wish we had non-cloud versions of Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 on Switch but I'm guessing that will come to Switch 2.