It's actually interesting that the producer of XVI suggested dropping the numbers from the titles, seeing as he's the Director and Producer of XIV he's been somewhat doing what you suggested with their expansion titles, except for making the numerals smaller. Look up any of XIV's expansions including the relaunch of the game and the expansion/relaunch title is double, sometimes triple the size of the main title. As a side note the Japanese text under the title also has a different name to the expansion for example: Heavensward is called Blue Heavens of Ishgard and Stormblood is called Liberators of the Crimson Lotus.

Now I'm brainstorming subtitles for all the past games. Final Fantasy, The warriors of Light Final Fantasy II, The wild rose rebellion Final Fantasy III, The war of Light and Darkness Final Fantasy IV, Ballad of the Paladin Final Fantasy V, Invasion of the Void Final Fantasy VI, The war of Magic Final Fantasy VII, Meteors Fall Final Fantasy VIII, Time's End Final Fantasy IX, Return of the Crystal Final Fantasy X, The Pilgrimage of Sin Final Fantasy X-2, The Eternal Calm That's as far as I'll go as I'm not super familiar with later games. Minus 14

Great videos! Your analyses of the sales situation and things Square could do for better performance make a lot of sense. The number being overwhelming so using it as more of an aside seems like it could work. I still can't get over your whole concept of Square-Enix not understanding how a trilogy works and needing to bank on sales of the first game (but not doing that! 😬). Hopefully you keep making videos because we will watch them! 😊

Interesting idea, but not where I thought you were going to go. I think making the numeral a different size than the "Final Fantasy" part makes it look weird. But at this point, the FF name itself is also kind of... legacy-ish. I think they should make the titles like they did the FF7 compilation. Dirge of Cerberus (small font) Final Fantasy VII. Crisis Core (small font) Final Fantasy VII. You get the distinctive title which tells everyone, newcomers and fans, what the new entry is about. Then you have the small font to keep the branding and the almighty numeral. Together with same size and importance. You get the legacy text in there for the longtime fans and the pronounced title for the newcomers.

Final Fantasy just means it's a flagship title published by SquareEnix carrying the legacy of a series of games created by Hironobu \Sakaguchi back when it was just SquareSoft and before they had merged with Enix. Some of them are newer games are good, great even. Some of them are great, even. Some maybe even better than their originators. I couldn't argue that the new teams gave us anything less than a polished game. XII was an amazing experience, and that had notorious development issues. Seriously, I'm not knocking the post Sakaguchi games. but honestly, In my view, SquareEnix has abused the name ever since he left. Whether the games are good or not. Imagine if record labels just started publishing new albums from bands without the band... just because they had previously published those bands. A new pink ffloyd album without pink ffloyd for example. Somehow, we let them do that with video games, and they absolutely do it with final fantasy. Though with all of this Machine Learning technology, record companies may very well start to do just that.

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They may as well. They haven’t made a memorable one in 23 years.