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Happy 25th Birthday, Final Fantasy. It's Time To Get Your Act Together.

By Dr. Evelyn Reed | January 01, 0001 | 7 min read

Happy birthday, Final Fantasy! You were first released in Japan on December 18, 1987. You’re 25. Good times. Now listen. We need to talk. There used to be a day when seeing the name “Final Fantasy” meant we were about to play something fantastic, when your “brand”—as the kids like to call it these days—was a sign of something special. Those days are gone. Now you’re a fucking mess. The problems started a while ago—with that awful Spirits Within movie, u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ really—but the first major blow u31 ทางเข้า to the Final Fantasy clout was FFXIII. Granted, u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ some people loved walking Lightning down the Tube, but many of your fans were disillusioned by the style-over-substance approach. Lots of people weren’t happy.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5969161","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"final-fantasy,square-enix","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Then there was the FFXIV disaster, the vaporware Final Fantasy Versus XIII, u31 ทางเข้า and the endless remakes of the first four Final Fantasy games. (Fun fact: There have been nine—count’em, nine—re-releases of u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ Final Fantasy IV. FFVI and FFVII? Two.) https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xiv-totally-overhauled-is-now-called-a-5929255 It’s like Square Enix is teaching us all a crash course in “How To Make Your Fans Hate You Forever.” Now you’re u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ sticking the Final Fantasy name on just about anything. Look at Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade, the ridiculous mobile/social game that launched last week without sound. How do you release a Final Fantasy game without any sound? Nobuo Uematsu must be rolling in his cryogenic sleep chamber. https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-airborne-brigade-is-live-and-pretty-disap-5968436 How the hell did you let this happen, Final Fantasy? Take a good, hard look at yourself. Think about what you’ve become. What you want to be. You’re old enough to rent a car now. Time to get your shit together. Happy birthday.

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