FF7 Beats FF14 As The Best Final Fantasy Game In Japanese Poll

The iconic Final Fantasy VII has been voted the most popular entry in the series, beating the incredibly popular FF14 in a poll conducted by Yahoo Japan. There’s no denying that FF7 is a sales juggernaut for Square Enix, but there are other entries in the series that also have massive fanbases, who consider them to be the ultimate Final Fantasy experience.

FF7 is the game that helped bring the JRPG genre and the Final Fantasy series as a whole into the mainstream, becoming the second best-selling game on the original PlayStation and being the most expensive video game ever made for a long time. Despite this, there are still people who regard the other Final Fantasy titles on the PlayStation as superior games, especially Final Fantasy Tactics. In recent years, FF7 received a remake, but it’s now competing with the likes of FF14, whose Endwalker expansion received a higher Metacritic score and was so popular that the game almost became unplayable due to server congestion.

In previous years, FF10 was the most popular entry in Japan, but it seems that tastes have changed. According to aitaikimochi on Twitter, Yahoo Japan held a poll to determine everyone’s favorite game in the Final Fantasy series. The poll was completed by over twenty-eight thousand fans and FF7 came out on top, followed by FF6 and FF10. What’s surprising is that FF14 is in sixth place, behind FF5 and FF4, considering the incredible popularity of the game.

It’s possible that these results are influenced by recency bias. FF7 Remake has received a lot of attention in 2022, as it’s the 25th anniversary of the original game. There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the new spin-off titles, and it seems like FF7 Remake 2 footage will be shown soon. FF6 recently received a Pixel Remaster, which received a lot more work than the other entries in the series, down to vocal recordings for the famous opera scene. By comparison, FF10 hasn’t received any new content since the HD Remaster in 2013. There have been rumors of a third FF10 game coming in the future, but Square Enix is busy with other projects that it might not happen for a while.

FF7 will stick around for years to come, as the FF7 Remake series could easily continue for another decade and still not be completed, especially if it decides to cover the content from Advent Children, The Kids are Alright, or Dirge of Cerberus. The original game is what many fans still remember, with even Robert Pattinson gushing about the FF love triangle in a recent interview, proving that people still can’t choose between Aerith and Tifa in 2022. Final Fantasy VII is an important game to a lot of people and it’s not surprising that it has retained its popularity after s0 many years.

Source: aitaikimochi/Twitter, Yahoo Japan

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