2012-09-24, 04:30 PM
The Final Fantasy series doesn't have any continuity (apart from the newer sequels); it's just a bunch of loosely related RPGs that use the same tropes, and quite a few of them are pretty forgettable. You don't really need to play through them all to get a sense of how it's evolved. I'd probably play I -> IV -> VI -> VII -> IX. My favorite is VI; it feels epic and a lot more polished than the games that preceded it, and I'm just not the target audience for VII and more recent.