I Played The WORST Final Fantasy Games Ever Made 

The reason your opinion seems to align more with User Scores than with Metascores is that you actually played the games, unlike most critics. 🤣

I played Dirge of Cerberus and honestly, really enjoyed it. That was a long time ago, so the gameplay could have aged poorly. But i enjoyed the story.

Here before all the people who will say FFXIII should be on the list instead of whichever game. Calling it now. 😒

If I recall correctly, Dirge of Cerberus had a number improvements made for the NA/EU/AU release. The original Japanese release controlled/played much worse. The game also supports mouse and keyboard controls; try hooking up a USB keyboard and mouse to the PS2 the next time and see if the control is better. Honestly, there is a lot of potential for improvement with this game; I'm surprised a remake or remaster wasn't made already. Given the love given to Crisis Core recently, maybe we could see one or at least a PC release.

Dirge of Cerberus is one of my favs. I understand there are flaws but oooooh I love every second of it

I would rather play all these games over Lightning Returns

I actually like FF2. It's definitely among the worst FF main series games, but that's just because the others are REALLY good. As a game in general, I think FF2 is pretty good. I just wish there was more build variety. There's pretty much only 3 "builds". Black Mage, Fighter (weapon attacker), and White Mage/Paladin.

If the level up gimmick from FF II showed up in a modern day retro inspired RPG it would be applauded

Dirge of Cerberus is really good for its time. Nothing special but i enjoyed my time

I loved Dirge of Cerberus, and bought it when it first came out too, even have my old copy of it. Vincent Valentine was one of my favorite characters. The only thing that I found semi-annoying of Dirge of Cerberus, was the need to use Vincents first and last name in every dialogue

I think the main reason Crystal Chronicles got such low scores wasn't actually because of what the game did but rather what it didn't do. Despite being primarily a co-op game and finally having online co-op they made it so that ONLY the host of the game could actually make progress in story.

For Crystal Chronicles most of the negativity went towards the changes in multiplayer. The reason the controls are so weird is because the Gamecube original was controlled with 4 players all using GBAs linked to the Gamecube to play. Dumb but really fun with a group. Instead of just making the original multiplayer but online with regular controllers they turned it into a matchmaking system where your party disbands after every dungeon and only the host gets progress instead of the whole party gaining progress like in the original. Playing single player it pretty much the same game as the original but it is the multiplayer where the remaster stumbles

I enjoyed Final Fantasy II on GBA.

Dirge is my most beloved on this list and I think your review is 100%. I was on that Advent children high when I played it and was so hungry for more lore, loved Vincent. And I personally didn't play the other games you referenced. I think objectively, it's not great, but yeah, 57 is too low. Maybe 65 - 70 IMO. Great video!

Record Keeper and Dissidia: Opera Omnia were both enjoyable, but also exploitative.

"They screwd up somehow"

The number one reason crystal chronicles wasn't well received was the botched co op. We were all excited to finally have an easy way to play the game with friends without gamecube to gba link cables. But instead of creating a caravan with friends and going on the adventure together, you have a single host that starts the lobby for each dungeon and all progress is gained by ONLY the host. So if you and 3 friends want to progress, the guests either have to do everything a 2nd time solo or everyone had to do everything 4 times. Ridiculous. I dont know who thought that was a good idea at the start of production, but they deserve to be let go or demoted for overlooking the one and only reason for remastering that game.

Awesome video Taylor. Super nice to go back in time and see Dirge of Cerberus again. I don't remember it to be this bad and now I kinda want to replay it 😅

Gackt as Genesis is gold to me

I am a rare gamer who didn't have a problem with how FFII worked. I'll admit that I played the GameBoy release that had the extra content that added meaning to those temporary characters, but I really enjoyed that game and completed it, whereas I just couldn't get myself to do more than a few dungeons of I.