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cardamom  ·  1485 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: First time getting into final fantasy

I have played all ff games on snes, psx and ps2. I have playes but dropped ffxiii and never got into the series again, so I can't really comment on the remake. They are the staple jrpg for me: always good games but without really standing out on anything in particular, except perhaps presentation.

Final fantasy is not so much a series as a collection of unrelated games that share some themes and iterate on the mechanics. They are games about frienship and saving the world from progressively bigger bads. Mechanically they experiment a lot but you can tell they used the systems of previous entries as a base.

Again I don't know if this is still the case for modern entries as they have switch staff quite a bit. In the (offline) mainline games I would recomend you start with the oldest one that does not feel too dated for you. Most of the pre psx entries have remakes too so they are an ok place to start. If you are not really sure you want to dedicate so much time I would at least try ffix and ffx. ffix captures the early nintendo era aesthetic very well and ffx is a fairly well regarded title in general.

That is for mainline titles. I would really recommend the tactics sideline too. The original has a very good story more in line with ogre battle than final fantasy, so lots of medieval political intrigue. The portable one are a bit more childish in tome but very good too.

Kind of like "it", yes. It is rude because it is used for objects or concepts, not living things, so it is kind of dehumanizing. That said, I don't know people who identify themselves as gender neutral so I don't know how they want others to address them.

I mean it is an academy of the Spanish language sanctioned by the crown, like the royal mint or real madrid.

And they come up with weird words that no one uses every now and then, like cederrĂ³n (CD-ROM). I don't think anyone cares about them beyond perhaps people who use the language professionally like writers and editors.

Fun fact "elle" is the name the double consonant "Ll" which the RAE decided to stop considering a thing some time ago, so it is a weird choice. We technically already have a gender neutral pronoun "Ello" but last time i checked it was rather rude to use on people.