Diehard D&D boomers will tell you to start the series at Final Fantasy 1, 90s kids will tell you to start at 7, and we all know that weird guy addicted to FF14 that shills it 50 times a day.

I'd say 5 is a good starting point if you wanna get into the series, it's retro enough at this point to be considered oldschool and lets you get used to the rudimentary mechanics that will only get better in 6 and 7, while also not being as poorly aged as the first entries to which I can only reccomend to somebody who has a high tolerance for retro games or hate themselves but have rose tinted glasses to the games they grew up with

It's good and simple in the way only early 16 bit era games managed to be, and that's all I could really ask for

Reviewed on Sep 27, 2021


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