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:The first entry into the [[Foreshadowing|then-unknown]] (but now [[Running Gag|lip-smackingly popular]]) ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, and the one that started it all.
:You see, near the late 1980s, a little game publisher called Square had made failure after failure. It seemed like they couldn't do anything right. One day, the president decided to produce one last game and retire. Pouring nearly all of their remaining resources into the title, he fully expected it to be Square's last game ever.
:He [[Gallows Humor|aptly named]] the game '''Final Fantasy'''.
:The name had a few different meanings. From another point of view, it had to do with creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's personal situation: if the game had been a failure, he would have quit the video game industry and gone back to university. The word "Final" can also be a synonym for "Ultimate" or "Definitive".
All of that above? [[Urban Legend of Zelda|Urban legend]]. [https://www.famitsu.com/news/201505/24079276.html According to a presentation he gave in 2015], Hironobu Sakaguchi wanted a name that would abbreviate to ''FF'' for his fantasy game, and he discovered ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' had already been taken. Hence, ''Final Fantasy'' was born simply for the [[Added Alliterative Appeal]].
The story focuses on the trials of the Light Warriors, four people who were either [[Fragile Speedster|thieves]], [[White Mage|white mages]], [[Black Mage|black mages]], [[Mighty Glacier|warriors]], [[Bare-Fisted Monk|monks]] (black belts in the the original translation), or [[The Red Mage|red mages]]. Each [[An Adventurer Is You|character class]] had different abilities in battle, and had a variety of weapons and armor to choose from, and to top it all off, one quest you can take has as its reward an upgrade of your classes into a more powerful version, most of them with brand new abilities. The game also had three modes of transportation besides walking - ship, canoe, and airship. ''This was mind-blowingly new and different for a console game.'' <ref>Different party combinations yield different results.</ref> Compare it to its main competition in Japan, ''[[Dragon Quest II]]'', where you only had three characters with pre-set abilities and a single mode of transportation.
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