Updated June 2, 2021, by Tom Bowen: Over the past three decades, the Final Fantasy series has featured some of the very best storytelling in the JRPG genre. It's a balancing act Square Enix has struggled with for years, but from main entries to spinoffs, it is hard to argue with the results. More modern games may have better villains but are less powerful. RELATED: The Best Combat Systems In Final Fantasy Games, RankedĬontrary to that, these early games do have some of the most powerful villains if one digs into the lore and analyzes just exactly what they are bringing to the table.
More specifically, they didn’t have really memorable villains. One could only do so much on the NES and SNES. Games like the original entry up until the fifth do not have as memorable of stories due to hardware limitation. The higher the numbers go in Final Fantasy, the more advanced the storytelling gets.
