Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy is a video game franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, developed and owned by Square Enix. First published in 1987, which was made by Sakaguchi in despair and will be his last project in the gaming of industry; but who would have thought Final Fantasy later success and spawned sequels until now. And shifted to other genres such as action role-playing, massively multiplayer online role-playing, racing, third-person shooter, also appointed as anime, and even final fantasy ever created for the music concert.

This series has been a commercial success; and became the most successful games produced by Square Enix, with more than 110 million units sold, and is the best-selling video game franchises of all time. The series is known for its innovation, visuals, and music, one of them the use of FMV or full motion videos popularized on Final Fantasy VII, photo-realistic character models, and great music arranged by Nobuo Uematsu. Final Fantasy has been a driving force in the video game industry, and this series has affected Square Enix's business practices and other video game developers. Final Fantasy also introduced many features now common in video game RPGs and has been credited as the game that popularized the console-based RPGs in markets outside Japan.

Originally started In the mid-1980s, Square entered the video game industry of Japan to make a game of simple RPGs, racing games, and became the game platformers for the Famicom Disk System Nintendo. In 1987, the course designer Hironobu Sakaguchi chose to create a fantasy role-playing game based new cartridge, inspirated from popular fantasy game Dragon Quest, and The Legend of Zelda. square itself when it is facing bankruptcy, then that Sakaguchi at a critical time saving square with Final Fantasy project, which is where the name Final Fantasy also means it will be his last in the fantasy gaming world later if the project fails.

Launched series premiered in Japan on December 18, 1987 and immediately a huge success, and became the company's main revenue franchises. The next title is numbered and given a story unrelated to previous games; consequently, the numbers in each series refers to the volume of the series or a sequel.

Throughout its history playstation is not the only system that accommodates final fantasy, nintendo console is the first time into this game of shelter. there are three Final Fantasy released on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The first Final Fantasy was released in Japan in 1987 and in North America in 1990.Final Fantasy II, released in 1988 in Japan, and that the last of the NES, Final Fantasy III, was released in Japan in 1990 ;. Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) tech 18-bit displays three main series, which have all been re-released on multiple platforms. Final Fantasy IV was released in 1991; in North America, and was released as Final Fantasy II. And introduced the "Active Time Battle" system for the first time. Final Fantasy V, released in 1992 in Japan, and then Fantasy VI was released in Japan in 1994, and titled Final Fantasy III in North America, the final Fantsy VI was the last series on the plaform nintendo and last series with 2D graphics, but not obvious reason why Final Fantasy II, III, and V, was only released in Japan.

In 1995, Square showed technical demonstrations SGI interactively from Final Fantasy VI for the next generation. This demonstration using a Silicon Graphics workstation prototype Nintendo 64 to create 3D graphics, then the demo Fans believe it is the latest Final Fantasy for the Nintendo 64, but in 1997, Final Fantasy VII is the successor to Final Fantasy VI instead released for the Sony PlayStation. It's preceded by a dispute with Nintendo who insist on using cartridges which they then were able loading faster than CD, but according to square Final Fantasy VII which is an evolution of the largest and most revolutionary of the series Final Fantasy has a number of very large data to the size of the game the time, which can only be accommodated by the media is also greater, namely CD, on this basis was square terminate their employment with nintendo and sony playstation choose. and Final Fantasy VII was introduced with 3D graphics with pre render background, the square instincts are not wrong because the media cartridge and then left behind even by Nintendo itself.

This revolution continued in Final Fantasy VIII was published in 1999, and is the first game to consistently use the characters realistically proportioned and my knowledge of Final Fantasy this is the first game in the world that has a theme song entitled eyes on me which was sung by the artist from china Faye Wong. And continued Final Fantasy IX, released in 2000.

Later Final Fantasy X was launched in 2001 and introduced full 3D areas and it became final fantasy game that has voice act first, and the first to have a direct sequel (Final Fantasy X-2). Then Final Fantasy XI into a multi-player online role-playing the first game (MMORPG) in Final Fantasy, was released on the PS2 and PC in 2002, and then on the Xbox 360 and introduce realtime battle. Final Fantasy XI, which was published in 2006, introduced new features real-time battle and interconnected playfields.

Square which later merged with Enix Final Fantasy series has expanded into a variety of media. Some anime and Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) films have been produced that are based either on an individual or a Final Fantasy game in the series as a whole. One is the Original Video Animation (OVA) titled Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals, the sequel to Final Fantasy V. The story is set in the same world as in the game, although it takes place 200 years in the future. Released four episodes, the first in Japan in 1994 and later in the United States in 1998.

However, in an effort to expand the square final fantasy to another media tucked a story quite embarrassing blunders that, in 2001, working with Hollywood Square Pictures released the first big-screen movie, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. This film takes place on future Earth is attacked by alien life form. Actually, when it was The Spirits Within is a feature of the first animated seriously depicting humans CGI photorealistic and had even received numerous compliments from among the instigators of the film when trilernya first launched one actor will smith who marveled at the view CGI incredible, but the fault of the adaptation the characters and the story that I think is remote from the anime, the film is only in a sheet of black in the long history of the square, not only blasphemy and ridicule the fans, square again buffeted by the financial crisis due to the failure of fllm this, it is also likely to make square decided to merge with Enix. Even gossip Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square because of its failure to tackle this movie.

However, in 2005 after their merger with Enix, square managed to pay their blunder with a sweet, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, a CGI movie theater, which contains squel Final Fantasy VII was released as part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Unlike the spirits within assisted animator hollywood, Advent Children only be done by making team FMV of the square, despite the story linearly, but this film contains scenes of battle was unexpected, the result though at the cinema was only released in Japan, the DVD version of the film was a huge success both in Japan or or are sold throughout the world, this film is not just reaping praise from the fans but also from film critics where they average amazed by the quality of CG photorealistic her, and surprisingly according to the survey Nielsen VideoScan this movie had topped the DVD sales No. 2 best-selling in north America, up on the success of this film was awarded the Honorary Maria Award at Sitges Film Festival precisely on October 15 2005 ago, and was also named as the "best anime feature" at the American anime Awards in 2007, even the revised version of Final Fantasy Advent chilren complete which was released in 2008 with some additional stories were sold out throughout the world, and the film became a hard slap to hollywood always failed to make a movie game, in fact I think if Hollywood wanted to make a movie game it is better to study in advance on the square, thanks to this movie square was again saved from the threat of bankruptcy.

Throughout the history of creation, Final Fantasy himself has changed team creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi himself as the inventor of the only direct first Final Fantasy to Final Fantasy V, then Sakaguchi served as producer for the next game until he left the Square in 2001. Yoshinori Kitase then take over directing the game until Final Fantasy VIII.

While Kenji Terada is the screenwriter for the first three series, while Yoshinori Kitase took over as the screenwriter for Final Fantasy V to Final Fantasy VII. Kazushige Nojima become the main scenario writer of the series' from Final Fantasy VII until his resignation in October 2003, Nojima is the author of the story to Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. He also worked as a screenwriter for the spin-off series, Kingdom Hearts.

Artistic design, including character and monster, handled by Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano from Final Fantasy through Final Fantasy VI. Amano also handled title logo designs for all major series and illustrations of Final Fantasy VII and so on. Entering Final Fantasy VII which bergrafis 3d, Tetsuya Nomura was chosen to replace Amano as Nomura more adaptable design with 3D graphics, but it is an important person behind Nomura successful Final Fantasy VII Advent children. He worked with a series of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X;. But for Final Fantasy IX, character design was handled by Shuko Murase, Toshiyuki Itahana, and Shin Nagasawa.

In the design of the character of Final Fantasy has its own traditions, there are some characters that still exist in each series who appear in a different style, such as a character named Cid has appeared in different capacities such as non-playable charater, party members, and even criminals, Despite appearances and personalities Cid differ between titles, characters cid usually associated with airships in the game. In addition there chocobo and Moogles which has become the icon of her final fantasy as things cid, moggle appear in a different character in each series, the Final Fantasy VI moggle appear as a playable character, while the chocobo, appeared as the character in-game mounts each series. but it also is Summon called Guardian or Eidolon or also Espers always appear in the series, this one is usually in the call by the main character when the battle took place to assist in partempuran this is one of the final fantasy elements that still exist today.

Just as the design of Final Fantasy characters have a typical music every series, music composer Nobuo Uematsu was the main Final Fantasy series until his resignation from Square Enix in November 2004. He was then replaced by Masashi Hamauzu, Hitoshi Sakimoto and Junya Nakano on Final Fantasy Dirge of Cerberus, Uematsu was allowed to make music with little direction from production staff. Carrying a variety of great music created by him one pretty cool is One Winged Angel who become battle theme Sephiroth and Cloud from Final Fantasy Advent children, where he successfully combines music Hevy metal with a theme of classic medieval but the most famous is the victory fanfare theme that always appear in the final Fantasy series, is actually the same music but with his skill in every series victory fanfare always feels new every next series.

As with any icon other Japanese are much older as the Masked Rider, Gundam or Doraemon. Final Fantasy managed to track them put the pop culture of Japan aligned with American in the world of entertainment and icon of high technology, proven in every animecon are often held in various parts of the world the character of Final Fantasy including the most easily found, up to now the series final Fantasy has come to the series to 14 with teams creator different equipped trending features that are much more powerful than its predecessor and is supported by hardware high tech such as the Playstation 4 and X-Box 360, and no news that they would be me remake one of their hits with the title of this new hardware, obscure  Whether they had run out of ideas or want to reminisce with their past glories.

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