But throughout the last year, because I couldn't really do much else, it was really easy to just dump hour after hour into giant RPGs. I've played a lot of the mainline entries – not even going to pretend I've played all of them, I'm only human. I was a pretty big fan of Final Fantasy before the pandemic started. (Image credit: Future) Final Fantasy forever Instead, I probably would have tried to get back into World of Warcraft raiding, been called some slurs, given up, and just ended up playing a bunch of the single-player games that are now in my backlog because I spent all my time raiding in Final Fantasy XIV. And in no small part, I wouldn't have even got around to trying the game again if I didn't get the chance to review Final Fantasy VII Remake. With the background of a global pandemic, both the game Final Fantasy XIV and the community of folks I play it with are what got me through it. They even stayed up with me as I struggled to buy a house in FFXIV (the housing system needs a massive overhaul by the way). So, some of the best memories I have during the pandemic are either in the world of Final Fantasy XIV or just hanging out in Discord with the people I play Final Fantasy with. And I'm glad I found them, because they've become some of my closest friends – even if they're all thousands of miles away from me. Because I was already anxious due to what was going on all around me in the real world, that was my first and only priority for finding a community. I came across Way of the Wump advertised somewhere, don't remember where, and saw that they billed themselves first and foremost as LGBTQ+-friendly.
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But after I got to Heavensward I flew to endgame pretty quickly and it's largely thanks to the Free Company I found.
And, well, it stuck.Ī Realm Reborn was a drag to get through. That kind of tainted my view of the game for years, but the pandemic was the excuse I needed to go all-in on the game and see what all the hype was about years after it had been overhauled. I only vaguely remember that, but that was during the disastrous 1.0 version of the game, which was, uh, bad. I did some digging through my email and it turns out that I first started playing on September 16, 2013, and then immediately stopped playing.
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It was probably not a huge surprise that I eventually picked up the hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV Online, which now has a free trial up to level 60 and includes the award-winning expansion Heavensward.įinal Fantasy XIV has always been on my radar, and it's the kind of game that I always dabbled in for a few days before unsubscribing. But because I was so enamored with Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy was obviously at the front of my mind when I was looking for an MMO so I could bury my head in the sand of grinding and raiding. In short, I was a wreck basically all year, and I know I'm not alone in that, but I really needed an escape, and in the past that was always MMOs – typically World of Warcraft.
But it's hard to keep that in mind in the middle of something like that, especially if you have problems dealing with anxiety like I do. In a lot of ways, I felt like the world was ending throughout 2020, even though I knew on, like, a rational level that the Covid-19 pandemic would eventually end and a semblance of normality would return. (Image credit: Square Enix) A year of Final Fantasy and anxiety And it's that hopeful mood that I'm carrying with me as I start to venture back into the world. I'm not going to spoil anything, but the last hour of the game is an emotional roller coaster that brought me to tears and then left me extremely hopeful for Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2 – whenever that finally comes out.
I couldn't put it down, and I was easily able to get through the expansion in around 4 hours and 40 minutes. The combat is so fun that I basically ignored most of the side content – at least after playing the Fort Condor mini-game a couple times – and focused entirely on the main story. But that was mostly because I got sucked into the fast-paced action and just started mindlessly mashing buttons to see what would happen. It still carries the same level of difficulty as the base game, at least on normal, and I did hit a couple of game overs. She does that by using her boomerang ninja-star thing, which you can throw at an enemy, chain off some hits at range, then hit triangle again to teleport right to the enemy to do higher damage up close. You can only play as Yuffie in the DLC, leaving you unable to swap between teammates like the base game, which means you have to be able to do ranged combat and close-up combat with the same character.
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