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Final Fantasy is known as the world’s longest running role playing game (RPG) series in all of video game history.

Dragon Quest pre-dates Final Fantasy. So does Ultima.

The game was remade twice with Final Fantasy Origins for the Playstation One and Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls for the Game Boy Advance.

It was also originally re-made for the Wonder Swan Colour, upon which the Playstation version is based.

Final Fantasy II was based around an evil empire known as Baramekia

*Palmacia. As far as I know that is still the official translation

Lionheart

*Leonhart

They gain comrades along the way and learn that the empire isn’t the one behind the evil that threatens the world, it is an entity called Dark Cloud

That’s FFIII, not FFII. Emperor is the antagonist in FFII.

It is a start to Final Fantasy’s trend of dynamic game play.

Misuse of term ‘dynamic’. The gameplay doesn’t change in anyway, only the skill levels. It should also be noted that this system was ditched after FFII, and has not been used since, so I wouldn’t exactly call it a trend setter.

Final Fantasy IV was released in Japan on the Super Nintendo console of 1991. It was also released in the US, but as Final Fantasy II. Being the first Final Fantasy for the Super Nintendo the graphics were still 2-D, but polished and given a smoother look. It was also re-released to the Playstation as Final Fantasy Chronicles which came with another Square game called Chrono Trigger in 2001.

There is also a gameboy advance port.

All three of these games, II, IV, and V deal with a plot around the elemental crystals that hold nature’s power and spirit.

Crystals have almost no role in FFII and appear in a completely different form from other titles (most people don’t even pick up on them being in the game). FFIII is the one you are thinking of. You also missed FFI, which was the origin of the crystal plot device.

In the year of 2003 Square released Final Fantasy XI.

That’s only the American release date, and only for the PC version. The PS2 version was released in 2002 in Japan.

It became the first cross-platform MMORPG in history.

Phantasy Star Online was multi-platform and predates FFXI.

In the near future comes five new Final Fantasy games, Final Fantasy VII Before Crisis for the mobile phone

Already released in Japan. It is unlikely that it will see a release anywhere else.

Final Fantasy XIII is bringing back the roots Hinorobu Sakaguchi and team who took a break for Final Fantasy XII.

Hinorobu Sakaguchi doesn’t work for Square-Enix anymore.


It might seem like I’m nick-picking with those, but if you’re going to write an article and expect anyone to take it seriously at least make sure it’s factually accurate. Also, there are several typos/lack of punctuation through the body of that essay: get someone to proof read it.