First Final Fantasy game. I would not have even admitted to that. The fact of the matter is, the game is good to you because you do not know the quality of Square with their Final Fantasy games. And that is obvious because it was your first Final Fantasy game.
If you were to give someone from a third world country a hamburger made from grade F ground beef, they would think it taste like the best thing in the world. Why? Because they've never had anything better. You've been starved of good RPGs, and the first one that you did play was grade F garbage. As with the people that thought Phantom Menance was golden. Of course they did, they never saw Episodes 4, 5, and 6. Now, it's the...

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