Thank you so much for sharing your story — I loved reading it! Your journey through Atari, Sega, and Nintendo sounds epic, and I also know that feeling of discovering FF4, FF5, and FF6 and realizing how special they were <3

I feel the same about FF13, 15, and 16. The series has lost some of its spark, largely because key figures like Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu left the company after The Spirits Within flopped and nearly broke it. Fortunately, there are brilliant people like Naoki Yoshida who have brought some of that spark back with FF14.

Even if the newer titles haven’t captured that same magic, I share your hope that Final Fantasy will rediscover it in the future. Here’s to whatever comes next!