Fantasy ERA

The latest patch for MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 brings an end to Dawntrail's relic weapons, allied society, and Hildebrand quests

A quarter of a century later, one great Final Fantasy game serves as the dividing line that began a series of more unique Final Fantasy games.

Which Final Fantasy game should you play first?

I think my favourite thing about the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy so far is the specific ways in which the developers at Square Enix inject nostalgia. The games launched to date - Remake and Rebirth - manage to nod warmly towards aspects of the original RPG without it ever feeling trite. You can see it in so many aspects of the way the games are curated: the way certain musical sequences are teased as motifs, and then brought in, full-throated, for certain boss fights; the redesigns of (in)famous monsters, and how certain major enemies are deployed in slightly remixed ways for maximum effect

FF14's Echoes of Vana'diel raid brought back Final Fantasy 11's Absolute Virtue to show off just how dangerous Shantotto was