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I always go back and forth between IV and VI as my favorite. A lot of times, it just depends on my mood.

I liked the first game tremendously, and I really enjoyed VII, IX, and X later, but just in terms of sheer joy and impact on my enthusiasm IV and VI are the two that stand out as the best for me.

Especially since it's before some of the more blatantly Japanese elements started creeping into the series and taking over (like Yuna doing an idol concert in X-2, or Squall being a textbook insecure antisocial Japanese protagonist, or just having every major character being an elite veteran as a teenager and over the hill by the time they're in their 20s), and the games still felt like fairly traditional Western fantasy (even if VI was much darker fantasy, while IV was more traditional high fantasy).

Speaking of fantasy, IV and VI were still at the point before an emphasis on tech and sci-fi trends had kind of overwhelmed things - in the earlier games, tech was certainly a thing, but fantasy still kind of predominated. With VII and VIII they went really overboard on the tech and it was kind of a turn-off for me.



11110111011 posted...

Ug. It's the worst of the SNES games IMO.

5 is the best, followed by 6 and 4.

V is easily the worst for me. But I acknowledge that at least part of that is because I didn't play it until seven years later (via the PS1 port), at which point it already felt archaic and inferior to "modern" games, without any of the nostalgia that the other two SNES games had earned to offset that.

(On the other hand, it's not just the graphics, because it also came out around the same time I played Suikoden I and II for the first time, both of which feel a bit "old" by that point, and I absolutely loved them.)

It's probably also at least in part because I was playing IV and VI as a teenager, whereas by the time I got to play V I was already past legal drinking age in the US (ie, the same reason I usually point to for why I never really got into Pokemon, or pretty much anything 90s kids absolutely love). So childhood wonder had been replaced by jaded cynicism.

Though it also didn't help that I found pretty much all of the characters in V to be completely bland and uninteresting, so I didn't really care about them, their world, or their story the way I did the other two games.