Another acceptable response: Flashbacks.
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Name 7 plot points? I've got this:
- this religion is a cult! Let's kill God!
- "fuck you dad!"
- main cast commit terrorism
- manmade horrors beyond comprehension
- the villain was kinda right?
- beware men with unnatural hair colours
- memory loss
How about:
- Magic/Magitech doesn't kill people, people kill people. (VI)
- Killing an illegal alien and her "child" makes you a hero. (VII)
- Burn the Witches. (VIII)
- Never trust a polycule with an overweight woman, a twink, a group in robes, and a geezer. (IX)
- One of these teens will die by the end and they know it, but they will hide this fact from their lover for some reason. (X)
- You've been marked by a demon. Do what they say and die, or don't and become a monster. (XIII)
- Celebrity deathmatch: who will be the ultimate (E)icon? (XVI)
Note: Only intended to be a silly joke. None of the above reflects my opinion on anything in the real world, to be fully and unambiguously clear.
Amnesia is an extremely common trope in Japanese fiction: anime, manga, and games. At this point I’d say it’s reaching cliche status.
They also almost always get the symptoms of amnesia wrong: the characters forget who they are. In real life amnesia cases that basically never happens. People can forget a lot of other things but they never forget who they are.
“Oh yeah? Name one character from every game.”
“Cid.”
Biggs & Wedge!
One, not two! SMH my head
By far the best. I've laughed so much at this.
Came here to say the same
Yeah, that's on me for not being more specific.
Mog!
Jokes on you, literally every game has time travel.
If you consider that we are all traveling through time, at the speed of regular time.
I used to travel at 1 second per second. I still do, but I used to too.
I don't recall time travel in 4, 6, 7, or 13? 10 could be added to the list considering Tidus's real history
Woooosh
The bad guy is going to destroy the world!
We have to kill god!
Chocobos love gysahl greens.
Time travel isn't that common though? The series is pretty overarching but I can only remember a handful few.
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Final Fantasy 1 - Yeah but barely
Final Fantasy 2 - Dunno, i hate that game
Final Fantasy 3 - You acctually unfrozen a world frozed in time/space, does count ?
Final Fantasy 4 - Moon Aliens
Final Fantasy 5 - Acctually you reunited two halves of a world rifted apart for everyone safety
Final Fantasy 6 - Funny Clown Man became God
Final Fantasy 7 - Ecoterrorists and mommy issues
Final Fantasy 8 - Now that's acctually have propely time travel.
Final Fantasy 9 - I don't care, i just love Zidane little shenanigans
Final Fantasy 10 - People die and Yuna keep dancing
Final Fantasy 11 - Not very fondly on MMOs
Final Fantasy 12 - Is the Middle East all over again but with magic nuclear bombs and some of the hardest summon bosses.
Final Fantasy 13 - Basically where i gave up the main series
FF4 kind of has time travel. Land of Summons has different timescale which is how Rydia age progresses. But... is that time travel? Time relativity and age progression?
11 - Yes, it's central to the 4th expansion pack, Wings fo the Goddess
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So many better examples in the comments; hell even Dragon Quest has more time travel in it than FF, lol.
Edit: people keeping score: 1, 8, 11, 13-2 and 14 have some form of time travel. 10 is debatable, as it's complicated (and not time travel but spoilers to explain) but understandable if you think Tidus got zooped into the future. Oh and 15 has a time skip stasis, but I'm not counting that.
Only 8 and 13-2 have it as central theme, and 10s fake time travel. In 1 it's a small thing regarding the big bad but pretty neat, 11 it's an expansion, 14 is a location.
7r has a kind of time travel, right? Or I guess that’s more an alternative dimension…
I know only 8 and 10 does time travel. Is there any other?
10 doesn't, unless the sequels retconned it too.
1 and XIII-2 do. Dissidia 012 likely too as a few characters in their original games exist in different points of history. Bravely Second and Kingdom Hearts too if you consider them part of the franchise. Can't remember any others.
Didn't Tidus time travel to the future or something at the beginning after Sin attacked?
No.
Explanation (spoilers)
He's an Aeon, like the ones Yuna summons, just made in the image of someone who lived 1000 years before, and Tidus being unaware of the fact. But the in-game theory of time travel comes from Tidus' Zanarkand being a bustling city while Spira's hasn't been so for a millennia, and is further fed by Wakka, who, listening to the theory, gets the stage of denial from grief triggered, thinking his brother, who was felled by Sin, must be some_when_ else instead.
Huh. So Auron is also an Aeon? I haven't proper finish it so i can't remember this.
No, but Jecht was.
Auron came from Spira, was killed by Yunalesca after Braska summoned his final Aeon (he became disillusioned with the religion after losing both of his friends at its hands, and attacked her), and was never sent to the farplane by a summoner.
He then traveled to dream Zanarkand to watch over Tidus as he had promised Jecht.
About Auron and Aeons (spoilers)
Aeons are weaponized ghosts, in short. Auron, after dying, became a ghost, not an Aeon (that'd require someone capable of tinkering with ghosts and someone to summon the manipulated ghost) and found his way to the illusion (Dream) Zanarkand to honor a request from Tidus' father. And the Dream Zanarkand is part of the summoning that keeps both Tidus and Sin alive.
Okay i need to replay that game, i have no idea what you're talking about hahaha
Spoilers ahead! Kinda complicated but short answer no, he existed in a dream Zanarkand that is a replica of a city that actually existed 1000 years ago, but he didn't. I'm fuzzy on the details but you could Google it for more info
If FFXIV counts, it has it too.
10 doesn't, unless the sequels retconned it too.
I don't consider the video spheres from the past in X-2 to be time travel any more than watching old movies or home videos is time travel.
Even the ending where
Spoiler
Tidus returns isn't time travel since he clearly still has his memories.
I also don't personally consider Dissidia, Bravely, or Kingdom Hearts to be Final Fantasy cannon. So that leaves I, VIII, XIII-2, and XIV that are unambiguously cannon and include time travel as a plot point, unless I'm missing something.
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The very first game has time travel in it.
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