Let’s make one thing clear: Yoko Shimomura is an indomitable composer. This week on Audio Logs: Top 5 Anime Betrayals. We’re going from the very worst to the very best. Look, no one is more distraught that we didn’t get more and better games set in Ivalice than me. You can argue they are part of the canon for FF VII, but they do not make Final Fantasy VII more of a total work.Īnd while Tactics may exist in the same universe as Final Fantasy XII, it is fundamentally set apart. Sorry, but Dirge of Cerberus doesn’t count. Sequels like X-2 and Lightning Returns are collapsed into their main entries, because both X and XIII are more complete works when taken as a whole.

You might say, “But Dia, there are more Final Fantasy games than that.” Yes, but for our purposes we are focusing exclusively on the mainline titles. I’m ranking the Final Fantasy soundtracks. I’m going to be definitive, authoritative, I might even be dogmatic. So this week in Audio Logs, I’m breaking my own rules. To be definitive in a time when definition is fuzzy at best. Which, I guess that’s what I’m feeling these days. Again, something that exists to give a sense of control in a random, haphazard world.

These things are generally used only to harm and cause arbitrary division.

Generally speaking, I don’t believe in hierarchies. Lists give us a sense of control in an uncontrollable world.