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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
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Trivia
The name of the monsters of the Final Fantasy series are often taken from different mythologies of the world. Here is a small list of some popular FF monsters, and what mythology they are taken from:
Usual monsters:
Behemoth - Jewish mythology. A huge monster and a symbol of evil.
Ahriman - Persian mythology. Personification of evil (In FF games, ahrimans are those one-eyed flying things, looking like bats).
Asura - Hindu mythology. A class of deities, as opposed to the "deva" (gods).
Grendel - English mythology. "Beowulf", anyone?
Tiamat - Babylonian mythology. Chaos, the mother of all things.
Kali - Hindu mythology. A mighty and often dangerous goddess of time and destruction.
Monster a character can summon:
Ifrit - Arab mythology. A wicked spirit, also known as Jinn.
Shiva - Hindu mythology. One of the greatest gods, sometimes regarded as the God. Unfortunately for all fans of the Final Fantasy version of Shiva - he is a man ;)
Ramuh - my guess is that "Ramuh" is a form of "Rama", the incarnation of Vishnu in Hindu mythology. Can't see the connection to the thunder element, though.
Phoenix - Phoenician mythology, of course (Phoenicia was where now is Lebanon, populated by Phoenicians, a nation similar to the Jews). But the name "Phoenix" is Greek. A bird that resurrects itself after dying (the item "phoenix down" also comes from there).
Titan - Greek mythology. Titans were a class of deities that fought against the Olympic gods.
Siren - Greek mythology. A beautiful woman who charms sailors by singing to them.
Leviathan - Jewish mythology. A huge water creature (Modern Hebrew: "livyatan" = "whale").
Fafnir - German mythology. A wolf that was defeated by the hero Siegfried.
Hades - Greek mythology. The world of the dead and also its ruler.
Quetzalcoatl - American Indian (Central America) mythology. One of the greater gods of aztecs.
Odin - Scandinavian mythology. The most powerful god, the ruler of gods.
Gilgamesh - Babylonian mythology. A great hero. Not a god and not a monster, actually ;)
Bahamut - Last but not least. Arab mythology. Is actually a translation of the Hebrew "behemoth". In Arab mythology, it is a big fish, and not a dragon! Well, whatever... ;D
