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"I don't have what it takes to make an action game. I think I'm better at telling a story"

—Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口 博信, Sakaguchi Hironobu) is a Japanese game designer, director, and producer who is widely known as the creator of the Final Fantasy series. Born on November 25th, 1962 in Hitachi, Ibaraki, he joined Square Co., Ltd. (presently Square Enix) in 1983 as part-time worker after dropping out of his university mid-course.

Sakaguchi started his career at Square Co., Ltd' in 1986 as director of planning and development. He was promoted to executive vice president in 1991 and eventually ascended to president of Square LA Inc. (now Square Enix) in 1995. Sakaguchi is the creator of the original Final Fantasy. Contrary to popular belief, the name "Final Fantasy" does not refer to the situation with Square, but was in fact given because the game was intended to be his final work. Neither proved to be the case, since Final Fantasy was a huge success. (more...)

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While each game in the Final Fantasy series features their own systems, such as the Materia or the Junction system, one that has reoccurred most often in the series has been the Job System, also known as the Class System or the Job Class System. The basic concept of the Job System is that each player character starts as a blank slate on which to choose character classes, much like computer RPGs, and has development directly controlled by the player's decisions.

While this system was a fundamental element of Final Fantasy initially, today it finds much more use in the Final Fantasy Tactics sub-series, as the Job System puts heavy focus on complex statistical decisions, which suits a Tactical game, over the plot-related character development that modern Final Fantasy games have become more involved in.

Each game that has featured the Job System has expanded on it and changed it in their own ways. (more...)

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"What will you fight for?"

—Tagline

Dissidia Final Fantasy is a video game developed by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable as part of the campaign of the Final Fantasy series 20th Anniversary. Dissidia's genre has been described as "dramatic progressive action", featuring characters battle in a 3D graphical environment with the ability to level up characters like in RPGs.

The game reunites twenty characters from the original ten installments of the Final Fantasy series, along with two secret characters from later games. Chaos makes an appearance as the god of discord, while a new character, Cosmos, appears as the goddess of harmony. Each of these gods has summoned ten warriors to fight for them against the opposing god. Now, Chaos and the villains have seized control of ten Crystals and wounded Cosmos, and the heroes must recover these Crystals to restore Cosmos and prevent control of the worlds from falling into evil hands. (more...)

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"Fire is the most elementary of black magic spells."

—Rosa

Fire (ファイア, Faia) is the most common elemental Black Magic spell in Final Fantasy history and is the basic fire-elemental spell. It is generally the first spell a Black Mage, or a general mage, knows or should learn. Its usefulness is due to the fact that most Undead enemies are usually weak to it, as well as plant creatures. (more...)

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"A girl who conceals her emotions but harbors fires within her heart."

—Description

Rosa Joanna Farrell is a playable character in Final Fantasy IV. She hails from Baron, is a skilled Archer and White Mage. Rosa is a childhood friend of Cecil Harvey and Kain Highwind, and harbors romantic feelings for Cecil. She is gentle and kind by nature and is said to be the most beautiful woman in Baron. Though Cecil is reluctant to let her follow him into danger at first, she does accompany him and stays by his side for a great deal of the game.

Rosa became a White Mage because her mother, Joanna, was a White Mage who fought alongside her father, a dragoon, and she wishes to fight alongside her lover Cecil like her mother did with her father. (more...)

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"Kweh"

—Chocobo

Chocobos (チョコボ Chokobo) are a recurring race of avian mounts from many of the Final Fantasy games, first appearing as early as Final Fantasy II. They are often used as transportation around the world in a method that keeps random encounters away and increases land speed. Chocobos are used as replacements for the real-world horses (horses appear rarely in the series, but are always monsters), serving nearly all the functions horses perform in our world. For example they are used by Final Fantasy cavalry, called Chocobo Knights. Though they are used in the same way as horses, they are biologically considered birds, being born from eggs, covered in feathers, and possess wings. (more...)

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The Gunblade is a recurring weapon in the Final Fantasy series, first appearing in Final Fantasy VIII. It is an original weapon: a fusion of the Sword and Gun, thus the name "Gunblade". The Final Fantasy VIII Gunblades could not actually fire projectiles. Later versions in other games, like in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy XIII, have changed these weapons to work as both a gun and a blade, although they seem to be more of a gun with blades on them, rather than a sword with a firing mechanism. (more...)

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"I've got more lives than I do arms!"

—Orthros

Orthros, also known as Ultros (オルトロス Orutorosu), is a recurring joke enemy in the Final Fantasy series. A purple octopus, he likes corny jokes and has a thing for the ladies. While Orthros is a creature from Greek mythology, this character has little or no similarities with it besides a link to Typhon.

Orthros's first appearance was in Final Fantasy VI, originally translated as Ultros. Unlike most mistranslations, he kept Ted Woolsey's name in the remake. He first appears on the Lethe River, where Terra, Edgar, Sabin, and Banon are rafting towards Narshe to examine the frozen Esper and to convince the city to ally itself with the Returners. Ultros attacks them, and hides under the water. Sabin tries to hit Ultros with a blitz, jumping off the raft and washing down the river. (more...)

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"... See, I can do the deep brooding loner thing that chicks dig too."

—Ultros

Uwehehehehehe! Hey kids, it's me Orthros... Orthros? I totally meant Ultros! Yeah, I'm the best thing that's ever happened to this series and we all know it. Totaly got to respect the octopus and all and I know this wiki does. Ain't going to give the coveted featured article to some chick with less character development than me.

Some people call me a fool. I spit in their general direction, covering them in ink while I'm at it I suppose. I am totally the best villain Final Fantasy has ever seen and with my bro Typhon, I mean Chupon (what is wrong with me today?), I will show all you silver-haired pretty boys and stupid flying ticks that started a religion.

But now that I'm on the front page I can totally do whatever I want. You know, I think this front page is lacking the colour purple so perhaps I can fix that. Hey Chupon, what's the matter with you? You've got something stuck in your throat? Oh no! Quick, turn the other directiAAAAAAHHHHH!

This Month's Featured Article

"I am who I am, I am what I have done."

—Marche

Marche Radiuju is the protagonist of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. A young child who has just moved into a new town, Marche finds it hard to fit in until he makes two new friends: the shy Mewt Randell and the more upcoming Ritz Malheur. After the trio discover a magical tome with Marche's brother Doned, they are transported to the magical world of Ivalice. Marche then vows to return him and his friends back to their true reality.

Headstrong and with a strong sense of justice, Marche can sometimes get so dedicated to one train of thought that he will not see things from anyone else's point of view, which often gets him in trouble with those who happen to share those opposite views. (more...)

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"The weak lose their freedom to the strong. Such is the way of the strong. And it is the providence of nature that only the strong survive. That is why I needed strength."

—Kuja

Kuja (クジャ, Kuja) is the main antagonist of Final Fantasy IX. A Genome manufactured to provoke war between humans, he operates for much of the game from behind the scenes, working under the ample shadow of Queen Brahne. However, he ultimately wishes to acquire the power of the Eidolons so that he may overthrow his creator Garland and rule Terra. After he learns of his mortality, Kuja goes insane and his goal becomes the eradication of life, believing it "unfair" that the world should one day exist without him. (more...)

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The "Prelude", also known as the "Crystal Theme", is a recurring piece of music that appears in most Final Fantasy games. It is often considered one of the most important themes in the series, as it is often heard on the file select screen, especially in the Finest Fantasy for Advance releases. (more...)