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Though each Final Fantasy story is independent, many aspects of gameplay have remained relatively consistent throughout the series.
Parties and battles
Throughout the Final Fantasy series, players have been able to command a party of characters. The maximum size of the party has been as low as three and as high as seven, depending on the game. This is only noticeably different in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Dissidia: Final Fantasy, in which you take control of only one character. Players must face a variety of enemies in battle who will try to damage the player, as well as afflict the characters with several standard "status ailments" such as poisoning them or putting them to sleep. Many of the games feature a random encounter system, the player is randomly drawn into battle with enemies that are not visible on the map. This remained true of the series until Final Fantasy XI moved to a system where all enemies are visible as the player explores the game world.
In battle, the characters can select a variety of commands from a menu, such as "Fight", "Magic", "Item", as well as other special skills such as "Steal" or "Summon". While Final Fantasy VI introduced desperation attacks, Yoshinori Kitase created an improved system in Final Fantasy VII called "Limit Breaks". These were powerful attacks that gained strength as the player took damage, and were accompanied by a sophisticated animation. Since then, games in the series allow characters to perform special moves when they fill up a power meter, and this gameplay has become synonymous with the series.
Throughout the series, the battle system has evolved from a turn-based system to incorporate more real-time elements. The original turn-based system, with the player characters on the right and the enemies on the left, is imitated by numerous RPGs. Hiroyuki Itō introduced the "Active Time Battle System" in Final Fantasy IV , where the time-keeping system does not stop. Square Co filed a Japanese patent application related to the ATB system on July 16, 1991 and a corresponding US application on March 16, 1992. One Japanese patent (JP2794230) and two US patents (US5390937 and US5649862) were granted based on these applications. On the battle screen, each character has an ATB meter that gradually fills, and the player is allowed to issue a command to that character once the meter is full. Because the fact that enemies can attack or be attacked at any time, and the player can lose his turn if he doesn't attack quick enough, urgency and excitement are credited to be injected into the combat system. This remained the norm until Final Fantasy X implemented a Conditional Turn-Based system, which slowed gameplay while making it important for the right characters to square off against the right monsters. However, Final Fantasy XI embraced a real-time battle system where characters continuously attacked unless issued another command. Final Fantasy XII continued this real-time gameplay with the Active Dimension Battle system, where the player may issue commands to the characters or allow them to act automatically with certain behavioral triggers.
Minigames
Main article: Minigames of Final FantasyIn addition the normal gameplay, the series has featured various forced and optional minigames. The first of these were simple minigames hidden as Easter eggs which must be unlocked by pressing special button combinations in a particular location. In Final Fantasy , a sliding puzzle can be unlocked while boarding the ship. In Final Fantasy II , a matching game can be unlocked while boarding the ice sled and meeting a certain requirement. Final Fantasy VII was the first game to feature a large number of minigames. A number of minigames appear occasionally throughout the main storyline and at various locations, many of which can later be played at the Gold Saucer theme park within the game, along with various other minigames exclusive to the Gold Saucer. These include a chocobo racing game, chocobo breeding, motorbike racing, a snowboarding game, and several others. The snowboarding minigame was later released as a separate snowboarding game for mobile phones entitled Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding , which released in Japan and North America in 2005. It is a mobile port of the snowboarding minigame featured in the original game. The game is playable on the LG VX8000, LG VX8100, Audiovox 8940 and Samsung A890 mobile phone and contains different tracks than the original minigame.
Final Fantasy VIII introduced Triple Triad , a card game designed by battle designer Hiroyuki Ito. It was not considered an essential part of the game, but more to provide a light relief to the storyline and allow the player to interact with minor characters in a different way. Through the use of a Card Mod ability, the player is able to create rare items by converting cards earned by defeating various competitors. Final Fantasy VIII was the first of the series to introduce a side-game with such interaction. In 1999, following the release of Final Fantasy VIII , Japanese games company Bandai produced a full set of collectible Triple Triad cards. The set was made up of the 110 cards as seen in the game along with 72 artwork cards and a collectors edition playing mat. Triple Triad was praised by GameSpot as a "more-than-worthy RPG minigame", finding it engaging and unique.
Chocobo World ( おでかけチョコボRPG , Odekake Chokobo RPG ? ) is a handheld electronic game designed by Hiroyuki Itou of Square Co. (now Square Enix) for the PocketStation handheld game console. The game can be played exclusively, but is intended as a minigame to Final Fantasy VIII . The game was present in all localizations of Final Fantasy VIII , but the PocketStation itself was only released in Japan. It was later ported to the Windows version of Final Fantasy VIII in 2000. The game allows players to control Boko, a baby chocobo, on his quest to save his friend Mog from the clutches of an evil demon.
The game's screen consists of black and white pixel graphics and is presented in a manner similar to the "virtual pet" concept conceived by Bandai's Tamagotchi. To play in conjunction with Final Fantasy VIII , the player must find Boko in the world of Final Fantasy VIII . Once accomplished, the player receives a user interface for communicating with the minigame. At any time, the player may send Boko into Chocobo World to gain experience and collect special items, which are transferred back for use in Final Fantasy VIII . In addition, Boko may be used as a summon in Final Fantasy VIII . The Electric Playground and Malaysian website The Star Online both noted the similarity of Chocobo World to another digital pet game, Tamagotchi, with The Electric Playground describing the minigame as "very nice" and pleasing. Ars Technica thought that players who enjoy "walking as a Chocobo on the horizontal plane of infinity" might find the minigame fun. IGN considered the PC version of the minigame a "nice touch" to Final Fantasy VIII , noting that users can play the former while doing other activities on their computer since it runs on a tiny window on the screen. Conversely, The Star Online felt that playing the minigame on a PC was "a little boring" and deplored the lack of compatibility with Palm devices.
Similar to Triple Triad, Tetra Master is a card game found in Final Fantasy IX . Unlike most of the minigames in the series, a few Tetra Master games are required to be played, one at the beginning of the game, and several closer to the end. Tetra Master was seen by GameSpot as inferior and confusing compared to Triple Triad , as the rules for it were only vaguely explained in Final Fantasy IX and there were very few rewards earned from playing it despite its extensiveness. Final Fantasy IX also had an additional minigame named Chocobo Hot and Cold . Upon the acquisition of a chocobo, the player becomes able to access the game inside of Chocobo Forests . No games of Chocobo Hot and Cold are required to be played during the game, though items received through the game could be used in the rest of Final Fantasy IX , including both regular game items and clues towards discovering more items in the main game.
In Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 , Blitzball is a sport featuring six-man teams that combines the physicality of rugby with soccer kicks for scoring and the hand passes of water polo. The game is played underwater in a large sphere pool suspended in the air. Although blitzball is a crucial element to Final Fantasy X' s plot, only one game is required to be played. In Final Fantasy X the player controls the individual players on the team, while in X-2 they act as a manager and coach. X-2 also had a game called Sphere Break , a mathematical game using numbered coins that possess several different attributes that can help the player in the Sphere Break minigame itself or gain items that can help in the various bat
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