SGDQ Made Me Want To Play A Final Fantasy Game For The First Time

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I’m Ben and I’ve never wanted to play a Final Fantasy game. I don’t know why that is really, the series has just never tickled my fancy. I love a lot of JRPGs, I like ridiculously large swords and dragons, so Final Fantasy seems perfect for me. But it just passed me by.

I think a big reason for this is never touching the games as a kid. Many of my favourite series are those that I first played on my trusty Game Boy Advance on long car journeys or under my bed covers at night, torch held in my mouth to light up the screen. That’s where my love of Pokemon began, and I poured hours into the slightly above-average The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers movie tie-in GBA game. I have fond memories of Super Mario World and the Bionicle game I rented once a month when pocket money hit my grubby little hands. Remind me to write about that soon, I’m sure it has aged beautifully.

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My colleagues and peers have told me to play Final Fantasy for years now. Apparently, the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 has a free trial, and includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn AND the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 with no restrictions on playtime. But I didn’t even have time to get into The Lord of the Rings Online, and you’ll all know how much I love the Lord of the Rings at this point. My boss does, as I can practically hear her sighs from across the country whenever I send her another Rings piece for edits.

I played some of Final Fantasy 7 Remake when it came out, but I didn’t want to. I was fomo-ed into playing it because it was the only thing my friends were talking about, and one of the landmark games that websites were taking