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wpot posted...

X2 has combat with job changes and the storyline is, uh...lighthearted. Or cringey.
FF12 is becoming somewhat MMO-like with an openish world and a, uh...political storyline. Or boring.
FF15...well, you travel a nice open world in a car with friends: that kinda works. The plot (largely nonexistent) and battle are messes, though.

Fair summations, lol.

10-2, do NOT go into it for the story. You will be very disappointed, lol. Game is hella fun to play, though, imo. In a way it's sad because I think it could have had a good story with some effort, but uh... nope.

12 I quite enjoy, but it is very poorly paced and made some questionable baseline story decisions (for example, why is Larsa not a party member while Penelo is? That could have fixed a lot of other issues, too...).

15 had a solid premise that they did nothing interesting with in the story proper, the gameplay is also not that great... eh. It also makes some pretty weak gestures at previous games in the series, but when it does, they're usually not as good? Kind of odd. But a lot of people seemed to enjoy it so it's probably worth trying out at least.

Hmmm. Well, FF2 has a cute proto-plot: is that was you liked about it?

Probably, yeah. For really old RPGs, they have to do something beyond the barest minimum for me to even note them at all, so while FF1 has a class system that makes it worth replaying, I suppose, it doesn't really have anything else that sets it aside. I didn't hate 2's leveling system as much as others seem to (but it is not good) and I appreciated that it was at least trying to do something new in terms of gameplay and actually tried to do something more than the bare minimum in terms of story.

I've felt that way about a lot of really old games; I'm willing to forgive a lot gameplay-wise as long as they're doing something interesting and they aren't buggy to the point of being unplayable (and I get really mad if they're clearly incomplete). It's also why I hate FFVIII a bit less in retrospect (my GOD I hated that game as a kid), because they were definitely trying to do some unusual stuff there as well.

Also, I admit that I am fond of the Emperor as a villain. He's not especially deep in the original iteration but I think reworks of FF2 have done a good job of portraying him as a sort of... hmm embodiment of egocentric, powerhungry abusiveness, and very much a villain who didn't just wait around for the cast to reach him; he repeatedly makes a horrific mess of things, proactively, which is something you don't often see in villains from that era of video games, tbh. He's not phenomenal or anything, but yeah. Solid villain for such an old game.