Final Fantasy

Description

Hironobu Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy... the first of one of the longest role-playing game series known to mankind. Final Fantasy is the game for the NES console that started it all.

The world is veiled in darkness. Winds don't blow, the seas are stormy, and the earth rots. All people can hope for is that the ancient prophecy will be finally fulfilled. "When the world is veiled in darkness, four warriors will come..." And indeed, they come - the four characters you have previously chosen. Their first quest is to free a princess from the evil Garland.

Final Fantasy uses a turn-based combat system. The enemies wait until all of your party members have performed their moves, and the ATB (active-time battle) system is not used. You can buy weapons and rest in the towns, and the world map is populated by monsters, with which you will be engaged in random fights.

Before the game starts, you choose four characters from six different classes: Fighter, Thief, Blue Belt, White Mage, Red Mage, and Black Mage. Which four classes you choose for your character is entirely up to you. You also give the characters names.

Alternate Titles

• "最终幻想" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Финальная Фантазия" -- Russian spelling
• "Zui Zhong Huanxiang " -- Chinese title
• "Finalnaja Fantazija" -- Russian title
• "Final Fantasy I" -- Common title
• "FF1" -- Common title
• "ファイナルファンタジー" -- Japanese title

Part of the Following Groups

• Final Fantasy games
• Final Fantasy series
• Games made into movies
• Games made into TV series

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User Reviews

A game that helped popularize console Eastern RPGs, however, it is over-rated.	NES	Christian Delano (5)
The very first Final Fantasy game. Though a completely different beast all together compared to later titles	NES	Mr. Huh (112)
The first of the greatest video game series ever... but is it good?	NES	Unicorn B. Lynx (63675)
I guess this is the first game ever that has a (decent) ending	NES	Bregalad (666)

The Press Says

RPGamer	NES	Aug 21, 2005	5 out of 5	100
Defunct Games	WonderSwan Color	Jun 12, 2005	90 out of 100	90
RPGFan	NES	Jan 29, 2000	81 out of 100	81
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	NES	Feb 27, 2005	8 out of 10	80
Game Freaks 365	NES	Nov 01, 2007	8 out of 10	80
Nintendo Land	NES	2003	79 out of 100	79
Game Daihouko	WonderSwan Color	2005	55 out of 100	55

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Amazing story?	18	Unicorn B. Lynx (63675) Jun 12, 2007

Trivia

In Elfland, there are three tombstones next to the White Magic shop the furthest to the left says

"Here lies Erdrick" "837 - 866" "R.I.P."

This is a reference to a character in Dragon Warrior but in the Japanese version of FF1, the tomb says "Here lies Link" instead. Link, of course, is the hero of the Zelda series.