On finishing an eighth Final Fantasy
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV
It’s OK to fall behind on games. You don’t owe an ‘up-to-date’ status to anyone, including yourself. When you’ve nonetheless felt ‘behind’ for years, though, it’s still something to take a step back and realize that you eventually worked your way through more than half of the mainline series—something that seemed insurmountable to me a decade ago because games were scattered across systems.
I’ll never finish them all. Online multiplayer games aren’t my jam, I’ve been reliably told there are better uses for my time than XIII, and as much as I keep saying I’m going to do it because I’m a stubborn completionist, the thought of facing II’s battle system again is not appetizing. The VII remake was totally unnecessary. I don’t care about the compilation. I’m not terribly interested in The After Years or X-2.
But IV-X, plus I, is a pretty nice batch to have worked through.