Emotional Impact of Game Stories

[kandrathe]

He clearly has not played Final Fantasy VI (III), nor Secret of Mana.

Both of those games affected me in great emotional waves, both high and low. I'm not ashamed to admit, I almost (ALMOST!*) could not kill the Mana Beast in Secret of Mana, and I replayed the great rending in Final Fantasy III (VI) until I managed to rescue Shadow.

I think many of the FF series are well thought through in terms of character play. I remember in FFX that I spent many hours becoming an expert in playing blitzball, just so that my character Tidus could live up to his reputation and the expectations of his father. In FF8, I think I spent more time playing Triple Triad than I did the rest of the game.