If you’re just getting into Final Fantasy, though, where do you start? Most Final Fantasy games are at the very least good, while many are great - and others are masterpieces. Now, many of those same titles in the Final Fantasy series live on the Nintendo Switch and other consoles alongside newer RPGs like Bravely Default and Genshin Impact. From there, the series made an incredibly successful jump to 3D on the PlayStation 1 before the mainline series started to take more risks, including the elimination of turn-based battles and massively multiplayer online game (MMO) entries. The fantasy Japanese RPGs debuted on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1987, but they became cultural touchstones in the ’90s as Super Nintendo games. Yes, we’re talking about Final Fantasy from Square Enix. While the role-playing game (RPG) has become a catch-all genre, now encompassing an almost silly range of games that don’t share much in common, there was one video game franchise in the 1990s that was the quintessential RPG.
