Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, FF16, and the ever-popular Final Fantasy 14 are naturally the biggest names in the epochal RPG series now, but for me, the best one always has been – and probably always will be – Final Fantasy 8. It arrives in the middle of the series’ golden period, between FF5 in 1992 and Final Fantasy 10 in 2001, and captures everything that made Square (and now Square Enix’s) flagship adventure distinctive and special. I sometimes miss that core, single-player experience – I’m basically a sucker for ‘90s-style JRPGs. Thankfully, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the original creator of the entire Final Fantasy series, is still working, and his latest game (published by none other than Square Enix) is finally on Steam, and available to sample for free. This is Fantasian Neo Dimension.

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