“So what ties them all together?”

His answer: Pretty Anime Boys
Mine: The gods you can Summon like Ifrit and Bahamut… Shiva…

I feel like he should try out trails series and do a video it would be funny hearing him explain random lore then all of sudden say you do want to know what happens star door 15

Except that one time they tried to make 13, 15, and Type-0 all interwoven

The way I see it is that it is still the Final Fantasy just for those characters, for example when FF ends that’s the “final fantasy”. And for 2 same thing. Does this fall apart when thinking of the games with part 2s? Shut up

Cloud was in tactics.

The answer is Cid. Cid is the Anchor.

Pretty anime boys and girls
Cid
Airships
Chocobos
Crystals… oh the crystals! And many more easter eggs.

Wait till this friend sees Bravely Default 😂

They are also all fantasy stories.

It’s always really funny coming to a comment section on a video like this cuz people are always going to supply what they think every Final Fantasy game needs to have and you can almost tell the exact games that they’ve played because of how specific the list gets. This isn’t even really throwing shade it’s just that people have usually played some combination of 6, 7, 8, 10 and 15 and it shows LOL

Chocobos, some invocations, a little lore here and there, the Ultima spell, and some guys named Wedge, Biggs and Cid.

That makes up a Final Fantasy game, the rest is secondary!
Oh, and eventually killing a god or something.

I’m glad I never played the game 😂

The story about the first Final Fantasy being their final game isn’t actually true. Though it is a cute story. The reason it was called Final Fantasy is because they wanted the initials to be FF, which sounds nice in Japanese. It was going to be called Fighting Fantasy, but that name was already taken. There’s a whole 2023 article interviewing one of the creators, dispelling the myth.

there is, FF Stranger of Paradise is retconning all FF. making all of them had 1 Thread.

“Pretty Anime Boys” wasn’t really a prerequisite until VII(Pixel art simply didn’t allow for them to appear as such)… and XIII Kinda Breaks the rule anyway by having a Butch Skinny Pretty Anime Girl as the main character.

The things that Tie all the games together though:
– Crystals are always SOMEHOW involved, even if they don’t call them that
– The Names of the Spells and abilities they use.
– Iconic Monsters
– “Jobs” that if they’re not directly part of the Game’s Mechanics are at the very least Hinted at in the character’s Designs and specific mechanics.
– Some Weird Mix of Fantasy and Sci-Fi(which of the two sides the needle gets closer to depends on the game)
– Chocobos and Moogles
– There’s ALWAYS a Cid…
– LET’S KILL GOD(s)!

Also pretty anime girls, don’t forget them. 😂

Isn’t final fantasy X and final fantasy 7 sort of connected

Isn’t he in final fantasy tactics, which is connected to final fantasy 12

I just played my first final fantasy game ff7 and i’m hooked on the series now, i usually play competitive multiplayer games but i think i’m sticking to single player games from now on.

Laughs in ffxiv

That final fantasy viii joke was too real.

Final fantasy a good example of “i do my best work under pressure…haha

There stories from different universes cause they cross in the original dissidia

“None of the stories tie together…. except when they do, such as 14 or dissidia.”

YOU ARE A CEDH GAMER ❤❤❤❤❤😊

And pretty anime girls….dont forget😂😂😂

Yep, pretty much sums it up… Yet I’m still confused 🤦🏾‍♂️

What about dissida

*Squaresoft

The funny part about Final Fantasy is that there *are* actually some minor overarching lore elements, and none of the games are actually “non canon.” It really is one gigantic multiversal setting that happens to be told primarily from the point of view of numerous disparate worlds. And I think that’s really cool

All or most have several of the following:
– Chocobos
– Moogles
– Cactuars
– Omega
– Gilgamesh
– Crystals
– Summons, most notably Ifrit, Shiva, Alexander, and Bahamut
– Biggs (or Vicks) and Wedge
– Cid

Got it memorized – axel

Thats not true, to be honest at this point the link between the zodiac age and the post modern and the dark age is pretty nice actually

I first engaged with Final Fantasy when I was 7 and I still don’t understand anything about it other from the music being awesome

It’s basically just the same as Dragon Quest. Except Dragon Quest is technically the same world, but not exactly the same world. Enemies are the same, and for the first trilogy it was the same world, but then time travel and alternative timelines make everything hard to follow.

And the main god of all games is the same, except some games explain the godly hierarchy different, and I don’t remember any reference to the Celestrians from Dragon Quest IX in Dragon Quest XI, but there are in Dragon Quest X, is not an RPG, but an MMORPG, and then it goes back to a normal RPG in XI. Also, IX wasn’t made by Square Enix, it was made by Level 5 (the people who made Inazuma Eleven, Professor Layton and Yokai Watch).

But if you want to know the real point where all these stories are connected to each other:
It’s the Akira Toriyama designs. If you see a slime, female warrior, and the dude with the horned mask, that’s a Dragon Quest game or at least a spinoff.

Actually 🤓 Moogle’s Chocobo’s and SUMMONS!

what a beautiful reality we live in. not one final fantasy but like 50 at this point

Pretty anime boys, magic, some characters do reappear in other games.

I heard that Final Fantasy was one of the head developers’ brother’s proposed title for the original game and he died. So they went with Final Fantasy as an homage to the brother.

Bro, didn’t even go into Final Fantasy 10 being an indirect prequel to seven. Final Fantasy 9 only had one pretty anime boy and he was the antagonist. And you barely saw him for most of disc 1 & 2.

This is technically inaccurate. Some of the early games from 1-5 are actually in the same world just millenia apart. That’s why Cornelia carries over. It’s 1 of the unbroken dynasties of that world.

I want my fft remaster, damn it

the end killed me

You should make a follow up to this

It’s not that rare for a final fanasty game to get a direct sequel there’s lots of them

Actually the only games that could possibly be connected are FFX and FF7

https://youtube.com/shorts/PR8k4WI3Nak?si=JpCu-oz9Cah_bkX0

The story about it being their final game is not true.

The bankrupt thing is actually a myth and was not actually true! The name was originally going to be Fighting Fantasy, but due to concerns over trademark conflicts with the roleplaying gamebook series of the same name, it became “Final” Fantasy~

FF8 Was timey whimey bullcrap.

The Eidolons/GFS/Eikons/whatever-other-name in all the games have had hints of having some sort of ‘oversoul’ that they are a part/shadow of between all the settings.

FF14 mentions it most recently that I can recall, but hints of it are in some of the older games.

If you think Final Fantasy is confusing to explain, you’re not a Fate fan.

*called “square” at the time. Bzzt. Wrong.

They were called Squaresoft. Squaresoft merged with Enix. Forming Square-Enix.

But yah Squaresoft was the original name

It it has moogles and chocobos, it’s a Final Fantasy!

I thought the game being called “Final Fantasy” because Square Enix was going bankrupt and they thought that was their final game is actually a myth and it’s just “Final Fantasy”, because “Fighting Fantasy” was already patented, but Sakaguchi loved the Initialism FF, エフエフ (“Efu-Efu” in Japanese), so they just chose “Final” instead of “Fighting” and it became “FINAL FANTASYYYYYYYYYYYYYY”

About the convoluted plot… garland’s plan in the first final fantasy is a good starting point to how fucked up final fantasy stories are

Dont forget the crystals. In every game for FF there is some form of crystal that is important to the game story/mechanics. Lets also not forget Strangers of paradise that literally connects all the games together.

They also share Chocobos, Bigs and Wedge, and singing called Ultima and more

Cloud is in final fantasy tactics

Someone should probability tell Square Enix that you shouldn’t label a game series with consecutive roman numerals if they’re not related to each other.

not why its called Final Fantasy, thats a myth. Was supposed to be Final Fight but it was taken.

Pretty anime boys is pretty Accurate. My favourite is Clive from FF 16 ❤

Y’all forgot about Cid

Magic system, Chocobo, Ultima Weapon, and Cid. I think thats it.

“it’s not all one confusing story. it’s MANY confusing stories” was the truest thing i’ve ever heard 😂😂😂

Trying to fit what happened in FF8 into a short, I would like to see it.
>Pretty Anime Boys
and also Cid; mostly.

Wait until the friend hears about FF6 where you get to Suplex a train

Well you get an airship in every one, even in the ones that are just medieval fantasy.

It’s been a while since I played 8, but I don’t remember it being all that confusing?

O and cid hiwind is the inmortal of 10 000 years

Um final fantasy is one story of ivalance do the work lol they about 1000 years give or take apart

Pretty animals boys and a collection of copyrighted fluffy and adorable creatures. (Chocobo, tonberry, Moogle, Malboro, cactuar, etc)

What they all have in common are handsome villains of course.
Maybe except 5, dude’s a literal tree 💀

To be fair, Cloud would go hard in a new Final Fantasy game, and naming it Final Fantasy just goes hard idk what else to say

I love final fantasy !! Kingdom hearts basically saved them from bankruptcy after the movie Final Fantasy that bombed, and I’m so glad it did because they are all a huge part of my childhood, especially kingdom hearts ^^

“Pretty anime boys”
I’m sold! 😍😂

Common misconception about the bankruptcy. It’s called final fantasy because the creator wanted to get something like Dungeons & Dragons. Which was their inspiration.

Chocobos and sid.

If you want to know how confusing it is in one game you work for the crystal of light. And the next you work against it.

Wrong the thing they all have in common is fighting GOD lol

Chocobos. Moogles. Cid. An airship. Most Ff games have these elements. 8 is a very different game, which doesn’t do the usual “fantasy” style, and even it has moogles and chocobos

It’s like GTA

That is not why it’s called final fantasy. That’s a fan theory, which to this day square has neither confirmed nor denied. Originally, it was going to be called fighting fantasy, but Square didn’t want to get hit with a copyright because fighting fantasy already existed, so they settled for final fantasy.

Moogles

then you get into the KH2 and FFVII shenanigans where Sephiroth is in KH2, after I think he came back to life again

Em termos de flavor, esse deck tá um capricho. Tanto as cartas novas quanto os reprints (algumas chegam fazer o olho encher de lágrima com essas artes novas) transbordam o carinho da Wizard com esse deck.
Já garanti o meu da Terra (FF VI é um dos meus jogos favoritos da vida) e se não fosse os preços altos dos decks dessa coleção já teria comprado esse do Tidus também

Wait till you add dissidia. Then the story really starts do whatever it wants

I always wondered what final fantasy was so it’s just farcry with swords

All of them set up a realization for dissina make more people into the characters of the story of dissina to make some feel connected to a character as such

A list of things all final fantasy games have in common
Crystal
dominances
Chocobos
Gilgamesh
Ifrit
Cool ass swords
Anime characters
Magic
Sad storylines
Op protagonist

With few exceptions. The answer is sephiroth.

“pretty anime boys”

😂😂😂 Do real. I used to watc fonial fantasy with ny dad when im 8-12 but idk much about it and i FINIALLY rememberd to asked him the name of that show with the hot guy that has long white hair and he told me and here i am. Watching every video i see.

FF8’s story line was cool, but once I realized how easy it was to break the game, I felt like I was watching a visual novel.

Then thers stranger of paradise whose plot dose tie them all together 🙀

I mean… As long as a friend doesn’t ask what “Megaten” is anyone is pretty much fine.

Chocobos unit final fantasy

Well… if you read the actual dialog. Ff8 takes place 200 years after ff7

theres also a confirmed theory about a character named shinra from final fantasy x-2 that started the reaserch that would later go on to create the shinra company in ff7

Cloud Strife a warrior of light created by Garland in a different time and fantasy. Sephiroth is basically Garland and Shinra are the Lufenians.

I am not sure because i haven’t played all final fantasy games but i’m guessing that Final Fantasy follows this Rule in every game.
-“A Company/State or something which is evil and tries to control/manipulate everyone by using light against the darkness”
-“A Chaos entity an evil final boss who’s trying to counter the evil Company and restore freedom by pushing the fantasy of creating warriors of light”
-“A Warrior of light who is basically the main protagonist and hero in every final fantasy game”

I love final fantasy but I don’t know what th does VII, VX, XIV and XVI I’m playing rn cuz they use the Roman numerals that I can’t read😭

Final fantasy = pretty anime boys fighting
I’ve never played final fantasy

Wait til bro plays ff 14… brings the whole series together in shadowbringers

“Pretty anime boys” Hey hey hey… They also share things like magic, summons, etc. Some of them do take place in the same world like Ivalice is in FF Tactics and FF12.

Funny, except Square was known as SquareSoft at the time of the first game

they are connected but only in dissidia

Pretty anime boys… And killing god

The way I explained is Final Fantasy is
“Difference number is a different universe story” that probably why they put Roman number to make sure people not confused, Like Final Fantasy X-2 for example and is a perfect example of sequel of same universe

NO CID?

YOUR CLIP IS MID

☠️☠️☠️

If FF8 was made today it would have been boycotted by people who expected 7.2 tbh and sunk the franchise.

Can’t wait for Pretty Anime Boys XVII

What elements? Fire, water in most cases, thunder, blizzard… 😂

I like to think that there’s actually an overarching story to Final Fantasy which has been the warring balance of magic vs science, which (to my knowledge) was a big piece of the puzzle in 16 with its big tagline being “The legacy of the crystals have shaped our history for long enough.”

Man I really dislike Kingdom Hearts, I will never understand that games popularity

They are NOT all made by Square Enix.

Square Enix did not make Final Fantasy. That was Squaresoft. To give an idea how confusing this is Kingdom Hearts 1 cases can be found with the Squaresoft Logo but people still say “Square Enix”.

awesome video bro!

Common elements are chocobos, name of some magics, summons, enemies and moogles. Oh, and Cid.

Kids are dumbasses these days.
I guess you’re just old enough to start figuring the stuff out… some of us knew all of this for 30 years

The “pretty anime boy” art style is only Final Fantasy 7 and up…. I miss the art style from the 2D Final Fantasy’s!

I always thought what connection them were the existence of the Crystals. Which were variants of each other

The word “crystals” was never said in this video and i am both bothered by and like this 😂

i’m genuinely baffled that people are still so confused on this concept. it’s what makes this series so memorable and fun

It amazes me that the same company that made something so complicated as Kingdom Hearts made something so simple as Final Fantasy

How does squall get so much shit yet cloud is everyone’s favorite. Stolen valor got so sad it crippled him 😂

The answer is Chocobos

chocobo’s tie them together

I’ve been a Final Fantasy fan for over 25 years. This is accurate.

funny, but you say pretty anime boys? why not the scary anime monsters? because GF/aoen and magic is the only thing connecting them all. 😛

Ramza replaced Cloud and Tifa is actually Alma,
Cloud and Tifa died in that reactor and Ramza and Alma replaces them using time magic and this is hinted on in Tatics.

He is also Titus but that’s for another day.

All 3 games are based in Ivalice and 7 happens before 10 happens and long after the war of the lions.

So none of the games connect in a story sense but can we confirm that they all still exist in a shared universe or is it a multiverse thing? Also would it be a crime to hope for an Infinity War type game where all the heroes of every game come together to fight a common enemy?

What about FF Tactics?

Till Final Fantasy 16 came out , I always thought this is a game series. 🤓

yup. Pretty anime boys is accurate lol

Pretty anime boys and often times zoom zoom birdies 😊

And then you get into final fantasy XIV which apparently ties into final fantasy tactics and final fantasy 12

Same world. Different people

“They aren’t secret connected to each other”

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: About that…..

Now try explaining ff7 Remake 😂

Aaaaand chocobos…. I think…

Idk much about them, except everyone just seems to have perfect hair and skin

When ff8 came out I was 10 I was looking for cloud until I hit disc 2

False, cloud is also in final fantasy tactics

2 & 4 connect right 🤔

Still remembered when sephiroth and cloud ran the fade in the coliseum in Kingdom Hearts 😭

Except, ya know, they are all connected by The Crystal. And Gilgamesh.

Jynxie but more autism

He spared him not telling him Cloud is not the main caracter from his own story line. Crisis core for exemple 😂

Ok, everyone else didn’t understand ff8. I’m not crazy. 😅

ACTUALLY FF 12 IS SET IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS FF TACTICS

Bad writting. Thats what happened in ff8

American horror story for anime gamers

Same as “Tales of” series

Every final fantasy is a quest to save the world that turns into a metaphysical headache of existentialism.

You forgot the most important element, The Chocobo

Apparently they actually named the series Final Fantasy because Fighting Fantasy was already taken

This is how we became femboys

Cid

Because each final fantasy game is a story of its own, you can actually play each one in an incorrect order and it’ll be ok. Some names may be the same but it’s a same name but by a diff character for a diff universe like the name Bob for example, the world got maybe a trillion bob’s but each nob does his own unique thing

Actually alot of the final fantasy games are connected. Like final fantasy x and 7. Final fantasy x takes place before the events of 7 in fact in X there’s a kid named “Shinra” who ended up creating the company that kick-started everything in 7 also squall and lightnings stories happen in the same world.

Cid is the main character of final fantasy newwb

How about the story behind Kingdom hearts 2? Holy shit I still can’t figure it out after all these years

I BEAT FF8 ON PS WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT AND DONT EVEN REMEMBER THE STORY, LOL

Oh but don’t tell him how Kingdom Hearts is in the same continuity as FF7 👀

Dysidia

Incorrect 7 and 10 are linked

Every game it it’s own world you p Brian’s

🤯 cloud is in FF tactics

There is a void thag conects all 20 known universes but they are seperated universes

Squaresoft 👍🏻

Tide-Us is my Final Fantasy main character

The story you’re telling about the first game and square going bankrupt is completely false. sakaguchi said that’s a completely made-up wives tale and the real answer is he had to change the name of his game “Fighting Fantasy” due to rights, and he picked final as the next word to use.

“Pretty Anime Boys” and chocobos (and sometimes a dude named gilgamesh) xD

14 unites all

Actually ☝️🤓 Gilgamesh is the one putting ALL stories together. He is the SAME Gilgamesh in EVERY FF game. He can travel through space and time

Chocobos

Also, in kingdom hearts cloud from ff7 appear

Elements in common:
Chocobirb
Cactusplant
Scary green knife boy
Random guy named Cid
And random girl who can’t decide if her name is Shera Sara Sera or Sarah

when i bought 8 i thought ok where is clound and so XD

Cloud is in another final fantasy game. He is a secret character option on Final fantasy tactics. FIX IT!!!😂

The bankruptcy story of Square Soft and Final Fantasy has been confirmed to be false.

Thank you. You spare me from having to play 14 hole games of nothing

Persona is similar in being an anthology series each being tied together by each teams abilities to access persona’s

…but he’s in fft while he’s in the mako stream.

And then there’s ehrgeiz’s plot. So hes in 2 final fantasy games that aren’t ff7…

Monster types, Gil as the currency, spell names, summon names, and at least one guy in each game named Cid. Usually airships, too. I think there might be a couple without airships, though.

I see you got volume 8 I’m still one ahead

Cid

It’s named Final Fantasy coz when they were making the game it was called Fighting Fantasy, but that had problem with copyright so they changed it to word that became popular in Japan at that time, aka Final..

The bankrupcy is just a myth.

There are some other others also. Like any game taking place in the land of Invalice Is the same world and 4 is the world of either 1 or 2.

Cloud is the mascot of Final Fantasy basically

What makes it Final Fantasy?

A series of themes and characters that usually are about killing gods and saving the world. And some fucker named Cid.

What you talking about? Cloud shows up in other games 😂.

SquareSoft

Enemies and spells are all the same.

I like to think of the FF series as multiple stories across time.

Playing the 8th atm and I agree

Although, Final Fantasy X could be a prequel to Final Fantasy 7

Yea I’ll be honest, one of the least confusing ones is Final fantasy 15, other than that they all get confusing as hell

Wait, how do you explain 1 and 2 then?…….. wait………

Wrong. It was called Final Fantasy because the like the sound of FF and their first pick, Fighting Fantasy, was recently taken due to the release of a GURPS supplement book called Fighting Fantasy. I’m not sure where the myth came from, but Hironobu Sakaguchi, one of the original developers, helped perpetuate the myth.

Pretty anime boys, Chocobos, moogles, a guy named cid, summons, gnarly swords, pretty girls, an appearance in kingdom hearts, magic, a world threatening villain, maybe a appearance in tekken, extremely difficult bosses. Pretty much what you need to make a final fantasy game

The fact that all of their plots revolve around the impending end of days of their world, if said pretty boy protagonists (and the two pretty lady protags) don’t stop it…somehow.

Funny birbs

I don’t know how true this is, but I heard that another reason it’s called Final Fantasy is because the story is the “final fantasy” of that particular world. And whether it’s a good or bad end is either up to the story itself or the player.

Final Fantasy 9 is still my favorite FF.

I’ll always love ff8

Pretty anime boys AND Chocobos!!!!

Dont forget square enix also made fullmetal alchemist

Moogles, Chocobos, elemental magic with names that change as the spells get more powerful (fire, fira, firaga), and the occasional summon creature. That’s about all they have in common.

Well, I mean, there is the Interdimensional Rift that’s canon within Final Fantasy…

Dissidia is actually canon to the events of FF1 and stranger of paradise

Dont forget they share summons as well.

I’d argue what ties them together is the ATB system.

Also I believe Final Fantasy Tactics, 12, Vagrant Story and SOME bits seem to hint 14 are tied together.

That’s technically incorrect: he’s not the lead character in one, but he is capable of being summoned as a party member in FF:Tactics, although when you do get him, he starts at lvl 1 while your party is more than likely 30+ at that point

They are all dreams made by a sleeping chocobo

Wrong, X-2 is actually connected to FF7 because of a character called Shinra

Prompto.

Up until FFX it was SqareSoft not SquarEnix

Dont tell this poor man about Dissidia

The “final fantasy 7” series is the most ridiculous combination of words that actually accurately describe something

I had no idea chocobos were pretty anime boys too.

Its basically just Cid, chocobo and moogles…

“What elements do they have that tie them all together?”

– crystals
– magic
– ridiculous weapons
– monsters
– summons
– pretty anime boys
– pretty anime girls
– Cid or Syd or Sid
– Moogles
– Chocobos
– giant “fuck you” monsters
– plot twists

FF8 is pretty much School mercenaries invading another country by another country for an exam before meeting a girl of a resistance movement that eventually becomes a sorceress infused bizarre adventure that has some shades of modern sorcery with some futuristic technology at the same time with eventual space and time travel.

Easily the most Bizzare FF but has a lot of hidden mechanics you would not know the first time!

Imagine fusing draken gard nier kingdom hearts and final fantasy

AND BIG YELLOW CHICKEN

Now now hold up, what if they were all connected? Just sayin

I feel like I’m not listening to my sister say the same thing she’s been saying for 40 years

Very rare to have a sequel in final fantasy because the story takes a hit after and you’re only there for the fact it’s a final fantasy game

And crystals. Lots of them 😌😌

They did make ff7 into a animated movie

They also mainly share the shroud of being a Japanese Roleplaying Game, which differs in some ways from western RPGs. I wouldn’t be able to place those differences myself, but they ARE there.

If I’m remembering correctly in a @daryltalksgames video I think his wife said roughly “is the reason it’s called final fantasy because in each one it’s the end of the world so it’s the final fantasy of that world” and it’s so interesting to me

Yeaaaaaaaaah looking back at FFVIII….. a lot of shit now is just fucking head scratching… like the fact that all the MC’s grew up in the same orphanage….. or the fact that it’s never stated that Laguna was Squall’s dad but it’s HEAVILY implied…… and then there’s the fact that a fucking Witch from the future is attacking some Albino girl in the past 😂😂…..and then there’s Adel

Lie.

He was also in tactics

The only thing consistent in FF games is that they all have Chocobos, Gils and Cid. Yeah, just Cid.

Cloud DOES appear in Final Fantasy Tactics, if you perform a certain set of subquests.

You forgot Dissidia

Where the final fantasy name came from is actually false.

FFVII and FFVIII are the best

it is called final fantasy because there was a legal problem. actually the games should have been called fighting fantasy. is not true with last game.

What unite us all are Chocobos!

It‘s many confussing stories😂🤌🏼 Thank you. Living it since the 90‘s❤

Also bahamut

Pretty anime boys is

Pretty Anime boys and probably Bahamut

Every FF game is a shard from FFXIV

FFXIV is like: “…. yea bro hold my beer while I’m mixing stuff from all the FF games in me”

Final Fantasy IV After Years tried to tie all of the Final Fantasies together in the same universe. Allegedly, throughout the first five games or so, the Elemental World Crystals were one of the main macguffins, but were apparently also how the “Creator” watched over each of the Planets that it helped seed with their world crystals. So in true JRPG Fashion, the FFIV:AY squad shows up to kill capital G-God. Pretty standard, but horrible follow through.

#NobodyLikedThat

A bunch of different stories that eventually tie into eat other in ff14, also lies cloud has been in Ivalice in FFT

Moogles… it’s always the moogles that tie them together. 😅

I can explain what happens in final fantasy 8, it’s just a stable, closed time loop. No problem.

That story about the name’s origin has been debunked so many times now.

Wrong square enix and squaresoft are different not the same

Kingdom Hearts is also secretly a Final Fantasy game except it’s also Disney.

Chokobos!!

That’s not why they’re called Final Fantasy. They were going to call it “Fighting Fantasy” but then they found out the name was already taken, so they picked another word that started with an F.

no final fantasy is not like jojo.all of jojo story come together.

And then theres dissidia….

Wrong ! Final fantasy 8 i fell in love with the hero and his father 😂😂😂😂

ff6 i fell in love with Kefka
ff7 sephiroth

Maybe because ff8 is female enemy 😅

Funnily enough, the FF games actually do exist in a kind of multiverse connected by a non-realm called ‘The Void’, since certain characters can and do show up in multiple games while explicitly being the same character, with Gilgamesh being the poster child for this.

They are all on the same universe at diffrent points and time. The gods are the same but in different forms.

What pretty boy? They started as pixelated

Three names bind them all:
Cid, Biggs and wedge! The true gods!!

Ngl, when I first played FF8, the very first Final Fantasy game I owned, I seriously thought it was a sequel to 7, I guess 10yo me would not know that because I was like why Squall have 7 games before this one.

Frfr

Closed

1. They wanted it to be called Fighting Fantasy, but that name was taken, and they were stuck on the FF initials.

2. Final Fantasy VIII is actually really easy to summarize

I love final fantasy games

‘If they are all different games what’s the thing that ties them together to be called Final Fantasy?’

Capitalism. You call Final Fantasy to a piece of garbage and that piece of garbage can be sold for $60

Chocobos

I always wondered why they were all called Final Fantasy. I assumed it was something like a bad translation that stuck.

Time merged. That’s what happened in 8

This guy just takes the easiest to understand concepts and turns them into overly confused conversations that would never actually happen in real life and I love it

That’s not why it’s called final fantasy. It wasn’t supposed to be the last ditch effort, it was supposed to be fighting fantasy for the alliteration. When they found out that was already a game, they went final fantasy.

I honestly like that each Final Fantasy game is not a direct sequel. It allows a lot of different stories to be told without pulling a dead dog… Like Star Wars.

I wanted a male harem, so I play FF

Ffxiii didnt have any pretty anime boys iirc

The final fantasy story is a lady godiva.

The REAL reason it is called Final Fantasy, is because there was a trademark on FIGHTING Fantasy. They did an internal poll, and Final sounded the best, most powerful name. So they went with that.

There actually is one character who has traveled between two final fantasy games.

I mean… yeah there’s a lot of pretty anime boys yeah

Actually, several of the games take place in Ivalice. Fft, ff12, ff14 are all in the same world and relatively close enough to each others timelines to recall the other games in thier history. I’m not certain that is all of them. Some of the other earlier games might share a history with the later ones. That’s a part of the fun.

Easy explanation: “Every FF game is different.”

Final Fantasy plays in different universe until Dissidia and Gilgamesh appearance.

Correction:

Final Fantasy got its name because the team wanted the abbreviation to be “FF” as it sounds good in Japanese. They were going to call it Fighting Fantasy, but trademark concerns made them go a different direction. They chose Final because it was a well known English word in Japan.

Uhm…actually Cloud appears in Final Fantasy Tactics too 🤓👆

And chocobos

Wrong… cloud was in Final Fantasy Tactics. You don’t know your final fantasy history.

Cloud Strife is also final fantasy poster boy, franchise symbol cannot said your friend is worng also 😅

Cough cough. Can I present to you FFXIV?!

Cloud appeared in ergeiz game also

Brruh how dont you know what happened in ff8? 😂

Cid, Biggs, wedge, flans, fira, cactuar and chocobos.

Many non-ff square RPGs are THIIISS close to being a Mis-titled ff game

Dont understand hate on 8 i loved it finished it multiple times

Its the tonberriers they hold the final fantasy universes together

If appearing in every game in the series and being canonically the same character in each appearance is the metric we’re going with, then Gilgamesh is the main character of the Final Fantasy franchise.

Final Fantasy VII (original game)
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (prequel focusing on Zack Fair)
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (sequel focusing on Vincent Valentine)
Advent Children (movie sequel to the original game)
Final Fantasy VII Remake and its sequels (retelling and expanding the original story)

Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2

Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy
Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy XII, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance all take place in the world of Ivalice, though they occur in different time periods.

Final Fantasy X-2’s world (Spira) is a distant prequel to Final Fantasy VII, as hinted by the Shinra character in X-2 who dreams of using the planet’s energy—a concept central to Final Fantasy VII

Forgot that FFVII and X are officially connected

Anyone else yell ‘Cid’ at the end when he said ‘what ties them all together’?

Gilgamesh is a pretty anime boy?

Pretty Anime Boys, Flying Yellow Emus, Koala bears with bat wings, and this really wierd guy namesd greg with four arms who likes swords.

False cloud and arieth are both in final fantasy tactics

Actually the myth about square going bankrupt is false originally it was called fighting fantasy but they couldn’t get the trade mark for it so they renamed it to final fantasy because they wanted to keep the abbreviation of FF

omg this is really a universal thing that happens to final fantasy enjoyers

We know what happened in FF8, some crazy timey witchy stuff happens around a man on a quest to collect all the cards and become the best Triple Triad player like no one ever was!!

I think it’s Shiva’s story. She comes in all final fantasy

Final Fantasy 8 isnt complicated at all. You do have to play through almost the entire game before you learn the entire story but its not complicated

Tell him about Dissidia now.

Donald duck is the strongest mage in the final fantasy multiverse

The bankruptcy narrative has been routinely debunked

Chocobos…✅
Moogles…✅
Molbors…✅
Cid…✅
Crystals…✅

There you go.

Saw recently a video and apparently it was originally supposed to be called fighting fantasy but there was already a book series with the same name and they wanted to keep FF so they decided on final fantasy because it sounded cool

True story. I still can’t figure out what relationship Squall has with Laguna… Dafaq?

1 and 2 are the same story

Everything bro said was correct but I still love these games 😂😂

To completely be that guy…square enix did not exist until 2003, and their first few games were ff10-2 and FFTA. They merged with another company. So anything before FFX-2 and FF tactics advanced(GBA exclusive) was NOT square Enix. And yes it matters as 90% of the team with SE even at the time was not the OG’s that worked at squaresoft

Kingdom hearts is what ties them all together come on now son

No, I’m only playing FFVII because the story is amazing, not cuz Cloud is hot 🥵

Woah woah woah, they are all the shared history of chocoboos

Squaresoft was going bankrupt not squareinix. There was no such thing as squareinix in the nes when final fantasy first appeared. Final fantasy got so popular that they decided to shoot them selves with 50 cal in their spine by making final fantasy spirit within around early 2000. The game final fantasy was name was decided when the creator hironobu last attempt, it was his final fantasy. About being convoluted… all square soft and square Enix game are.

However,we don’t talk about final fantasy 15

Correction, cloud is the protagonist of final fantasy 7 ONLY AFTER the events of crisis core

Good explaination. Now please explain Fabula Nova Crystalis. I still don’t understand

Yeah seriously, I’ve always adored the art of the final fantasy series first and foremost. But one thing I could never understand is why these Japanese producers have to make their games so extremely convoluted and confusing apparently just for the sake of confusion? A lot of the stories aren’t far off from being good. They’re just fucking confusing.

Sont forget the main character mostly likely to be a prince or have a travel partner that is.

Im pretty sure the name origin thing is a debunked rumor

Hearing FF being referred to as another game made by the KH people is the weirdest thing because the whole reason many people bought KH in the first place is because it was made by FF people and features from characters

That’s like saying hey isn’t that Mickey Mouse guy the character from kingdom hearts?

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The final game story is marketing bs and it’s easy to look up. they were doing just fine financially at the time.

It’s called final fantasy cause it sounds cool, is all.

Cid ties it all together, he is the reus ex machina, the one continous person

“What ties them all together then”

“The f&&&ng Chocobos” 💀

The only confirm connected universe is fft and ff12. Freaking Ivalice.

IIRC Final Fantasy wasnt Square’s Swan Song, they just needed a cool sounding name.

It wasn’t their final game they just wanted ff

And there on the side we have Dissidia

I wonder if they made a final fantasy with an ugly mf. Or, have the protagonist not be a pretty anime boy, but look like Guts.

People don’t know what happened in VIII?

Square debunked the whole “being their final game because they were going bankrupt” myth. The real reason why they went with “Final Fantasy” is because the title “Fighting Fantasy” was already copywritten and they wanted a series that they could abbreviate with the initials “FF”. This “FF” series was always intended from the get-go to be their signature franchise and the hex code FF is somehow mathematically equivalent to a square. In fact, Sakaguchi and the team didn’t really like the term “Final” for the longest time at all BECAUSE they thought it weird that the series they were about to launch was being tied to finality.

The original Final fantasy was supposedly to be the last fantasy game after last cloudia but they went and continued the series all the way to 16 and still ongoing

i have only played final fantasy 7, why the hell does cid show up in like every game and look slightly different every time

VII and X are debatably related, not official though

Final fantasy X will forever be my favorite game 🎉

prety animy boy huh…

The actual reason for calling it Final Fantasy is a bit more mundane.

They wanted to call it “Fighting Fantasy” but the name was apparently already trademarked in the US so they used the only other word for the first “F” that would make sense.

and pretty anime girls

I never saw Cecil the Dark Knight a pretty anime boy, but I guess if they made an art of him in this era he is gonna be one

Gotta love Final Fantasy

The thing that ties them together would be the magic system. They all use roughly the same names for everything magic related in the games.

Final fantasy 13 fail no petty anime boy and female lead?

Oh, god Shut up!

Pretty anime bois, black and white mages, and chocobos

Cloud so pretty he tricked a mob boss into picking him as a wife by literally only wearing a dress.

Moogles, moogles are what ties final fantasy together

Wanted to say crystal 🤣 but they ain’t a crystal in 7 and 8

i would love a sequel to ff15