Final FantasySquare-Enix (PSP)
In the twenty years since the first Final Fantasy RPGs have made their way into the mainstream, mostly due to the success of Final Fantasy VII on the Playstation. The seventh entry in the massive series featured 3D graphics, and orchestrated soundtrack and pre-rendered backgrounds - attributes that are usually reserved for epic movies. Then again, that's exactly what Final Fantasy VII was, and that's what the game brought to the general populous: Eye-candy with a story that sprawled three discs.
Back in 1987 players were "dazzled" by technical breakthroughs like...8-bit graphics, a couple of different character classes and a MIDI soundtrack. Gamers in 2007 ask for much more than that, seeing that the average game on the Sony' portable marvel, the PSP, can handle games with twenty-times the strength of the first Final Fantasy. To prove the PSP's prowess - and to prove the timeless quality of a great game - the original Final Fantasy has been updated and upgraded to deem itself worthy in today's world of hi-res, hi-fi and widescreen.
The story in Final Fantasy is one for the ages. Players control a party of four warriors that have been chosen to save the four crystals of the elements - water, air, fire, earth - from the four elemental fiends that will bring certain doom to the entire world. While the story may seem typical for an RPG, know that this game is where those trite stories came from. Nonetheless, the story is a bit weak, to be honest, when comparing it to the soap-opera that is Final Fantasy VI or Final Fantasy VII's tear-jerking side plots (R.I.P. Aeris Gainsborough).
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Children, you can search for it, and it'll come up on YouTube. I
LOVE Final Fantasy, but I also enjoyed VII too, despite how some
people say it's overrated, it's still very amusing. By the way,
the death of Aeris was not a side-plot, you do-do. It had to do
with the main storyline. I.e. Aeris was the only one who could
counter Meteor, remember, so she summoned Holy, she was the only
one who could, and that's when Sephiroth killed her. Without her
summoning Holy, I doubt there would be anything left of Midgar,
nonetheless the world.
By the way, for those who are interested, Final Fantasy VII:
Crisis Core is coming out for the PSP in August, if I remember
right.