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[arsenal51]

-Hello everyone, I've never played a final fantasy game so i want to start from the beginning.
-So my question is could anyone list me the order of all the final fantasys until final fantasy X including the console for what they are?

-I'm asking this because I've been searching around and found many final fantasys like final fantasy legend and stuff like that, and i don't know where these fit in the saga.

-Hope you can help me, even if this sounds like a stupid question but i want to play them all in order and since i never played any its really confusing.

-So is it safe to start with "Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Sould" for GBA? (these correspond to the first ones from NES right?)

[Vermachtnis]

Yes, 1 & 2 Dawn of Souls is the same as the NES games.

III DS is the way to go.
IV DS or Advance for that. DS has the same game, but with Augments and Advance has party switching at the end and a post game.
V and VI Advance is so the way to go with that.
VII, VIII, and IX PSOne
X PS2.

And for the most part, Final Fantasy games are stand alone and there is no "Saga" so to speak.

[theundeadhero]

The above post is entirely his opinion on which version of the game is better. That choice is up to you.

FF1
FF2
FF3
FF4
FF5
FF Mystic Quest
FF VI
FFVII + spinoff games
FF Tactics
FFVIII
FFIX
FFX
FFX2
FF12

The game boy ones: FF Legends, Legends 2, Legends 3 and Adventure aren't really FF games so much as they were renamed to FF when they were brought to America because corporate thought they would sell better.

It doesn't really matter which order you play them in. There is no saga, they're all independent of each other other than the obvious FFVII stuff and then FFX+FFX2.

[arsenal51]

Tanks a lot to the two of you it really helped

[Vermachtnis]

Actually the systems I mentioned are the ones that'll be easier to track down.

[The White Wizard of Fynn]

Plus, those versions really are the best

[arsenal51]

Is the version from gba of final fantasy V, for example, the same as the version of the PS final fantasy V ?

[Wolf Kanno]

I'm going to move this into General FF

There is a difference between the two. The GBA version actually offers a good translation while the PS1 version retains a translation written back in a time frame when games had a strict censorship code. The PS1 script is pretty awful and and comes off childish if not outright lobotomized.

The GBA/DS versions of the pre-VII games tend to have much superior translations and they also feature a few minor extras like a few new items, abilities, and bonus dungeons. They're the best legitimate versions of the games in terms of good storytelling. Your other option would be to go through the ROMs though I question the choices made by fans in those translations but they are still vastly superior to some of the original SNES versions or some of the PS1 ports.