The first installment of the series was released in Japan on December 18, 1987. Main article: List of Final Fantasy video games
It has popularized many features now common in role-playing games, also popularizing the genre as a whole in markets outside Japan. The series is well known for its innovation, visuals, such as the inclusion of full-motion videos (FMVs), photorealistic character models, and music by Nobuo Uematsu.
The Final Fantasy video game series has been both critically and commercially successful, with some entries ( I, IV, VI, VII, IX, and X) regarded by many as some of the greatest video games, and the series as a whole selling more than 164 million software units worldwide, making it one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time. The mechanics of each game involve similar battle systems and maps. Character names are frequently derived from the history, languages, pop culture, and mythologies of cultures worldwide.
Each plot centers on a particular group of heroes who are battling a great evil, but also explores the characters' internal struggles and relationships. The franchise has since branched into other video game genres such as tactical role-playing, action role-playing, massively multiplayer online role-playing, racing, third-person shooter, fighting, and rhythm, as well as branching into other media, including CGI films, anime, manga, and novels.įinal Fantasy installments are generally stand-alone stories or role playing games, each with different settings, plots and main characters, but the franchise is linked by several recurring elements, including game mechanics and recurring character names. The first game in the series was released in 1987, with 15 numbered main entries having been released to date and an upcoming 16th installment announced in 2020. The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Final Fantasy is a Japanese anthology science fantasy media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.
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