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Did Square Enix Ever Surpass Final Fantasy 10?

Final Fantasy X is weird because the older you get, the more it changes. As a kid, FF10 feels like an adventure. Then you replay it and realize you are actually looking at a story about death rituals, religious institutions, generational trauma, grief, existential dread, false hope, political control, and people slowly discovering their entire civilization is built upon a lie.

That is why Final Fantasy X hits timeless and different.

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These Ensemble pieces were built around that duality: the beauty of the pilgrimage and the horror hidden beneath it. Faith and rebellion. Hope and sacrifice. Love and inevitability.

And somehow, twenty plus years later, people are still arguing whether Square ever surpassed it.

Final Fantasy 8’s Most Brilliant Idea Is Griever

The genius of Final Fantasy VIII is that Griever was never hiding somewhere waiting to be discovered. Squall invented him and that changes everything.

Because Griever is not simply a lion… type… thing? He is Squall’s private mythology: the shape strength takes inside the mind of someone who learned very early that vulnerability hurts, dependence fails, and emotional distance feels safer than needing people.

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Then Ultimecia does something horrifying. She reaches into Squall’s mind, extracts his internal definition of strength, and forces him to physically confront it. That is why Griever works so well. Most JRPG final bosses test your stats.

Griever tests the survival strategy a lonely child built to survive.

Cloud has a six-foot slab of iron. Barret has a literal gatling gun attached to his arm. Tifa? Tifa pours drinks on Tuesdays and uppercuts the laws of physics on Wednesdays. 💥

Final Heaven isn't just a martial arts move. It's a localized nuclear event. Capture that exact, absurd level of impact with this premium Final Fantasy 7 artwork:

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We had to go all-in on the heat and overkill for this piece, because Tifa hitting a villain with Final Heaven is basically 12,000 hamsters fired from a cannon. It’s a motorway pile-up compressed into a single fist. She isn’t just dealing damage here—she’s punching common sense completely out of the room.

Final Fantasy 10 Has A Secret Party Member That Might Make You Cry!

Yuna’s Sending is beautiful until you remember what Valefor actually is.

In Final Fantasy X, an aeon is not just a magical creature. It is the dream of a fayth. A real person who gave up their body, future, and freedom so their soul could become a weapon, a guardian, and a prayer trapped in endless service.

That makes Valefor feel so much sadder. Yuna dances to guide the dead onward… while Valefor stands behind her as someone who never truly gets that release until the ending.

That contrast is what this Monochrome Sending Edition was built around: beauty, sacrifice, pyreflies, pink impasto, and the quiet horror hiding beneath Spira’s most sacred rituals.

What Loving Rydia Says About YOU! | Final Fantasy 4

Rydia’s story in Final Fantasy IV is so much bigger than “child becomes powerful summoner.” It is basically a 16-bit katabasis: the ancient mythic descent into the underworld, where a hero enters death, exile, or darkness and returns transformed. Orpheus, Heracles, Odysseus, Persephone — all carry versions of that pattern. Rydia is thrown into that structure violently, robbed of childhood, taken from the surface world, and forced to mature in a realm most people would never survive.

But the deeper power of her arc is forgiveness. Hannah Arendt argued that forgiveness is one of the only human actions capable of breaking the irreversibility of the past. Without it, every wound demands retaliation, every harm creates a counter-harm, and history becomes an endless chain of reaction. Rydia breaks that chain when she saves Cecil. She does not erase what happened to Mist. She does not pretend the pain vanished. She simply refuses to let revenge become the final author of her life.

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That is what this Monochrome Edition is built around: not just Rydia as a summoner, but Rydia as the child who descended, transformed, returned, and became powerful enough to choose mercy without becoming weak.

Uncle Gus is Here to Save Final Fantasy Gamers…

Let's be real for a second you little Final Fantasy goblin. You’re squatting in a room that smells like stale energy drinks and regret, staring at blank walls that belong in a museum of bad decisions. It’s a complete disaster! But Uncle Gus is a generous guy, and I'm here to throw you a lifeline. Final Fantasy 7 Remake & Rebirth themed artworks are demanding you pull up your pants and unload your saucer coins.

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Do you want to be a legend, or do you want to live in a visual biohazard for the rest of your life? The choice is yours, but if you make the wrong one, I'm sending my boys over to redecorate your setup with baseball bats!

Post-Traumatic Growth Explained Through Tifa Lockhart | Final Fantasy

Cloud's mind was shattered by trauma, but Tifa’s mind was forged by it. It’s a PTSD vs PTG dynamic.

In psychology, there is a concept called the Cognitive Seismic Model. Trauma acts as an earthquake that destroys your worldview. Growth doesn't come from the trauma itself, but from the grueling, conscious process of rebuilding the house from the rubble. Tifa Lockhart is the absolute embodiment of this.

We captured that exact psychological rebuild in our newest artwork. 

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In this piece, she is anchored by the Nibelheim water tower and surrounded by the Shinra machinery that destroyed her life. But her pose is dynamic, grounded, and forward-moving. It’s a portrait of integration, not damage. A tribute to the quiet power of becoming stronger without becoming hardened. 🤍❤️

Vincent’s Chaos Could Change Everything in Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3

Everyone is asking what Sephiroth wants with Cloud, Aerith, fate, and the Lifestream.

But there’s one question that feels massive for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3:

What is Sephiroth’s plan for Chaos?

Vincent Valentine isn’t just a gothic gunman with a tragic past. He carries Chaos — the force tied to the planet’s final cycle, the gathering of souls, and the awakening of Omega when a world reaches its end.

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That makes Vincent potentially one of the most dangerous pieces on the board. If Sephiroth is trying to rewrite death, bend the Lifestream, or escape the Planet’s natural order, then Chaos is not a side detail.

And if Square Enix actually leans into that in Part 3, Vincent could become far more important than anyone expects.

What My Dreams Of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Look Like…

I might actually have Mako poisoning, because when I close my eyes at night, this edit is exactly what my dreams of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth look like. Haters be damned, Square Enix delivered the perfect Costa del Sol beach episode. But if we're being entirely honest, this masterpiece only exists because a talking dog looked at Midgar's deadliest brawler and called her "sleek as a dolphin." 🐬💀

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Hang it in your room and let everyone know you play the FF7 Remake project strictly for the marine biology.

If these Final Fantasy teams went to war, I don’t think this is nearly as obvious as people want it to be.

FF7 has the popularity armor. FF6 has the legendary roster depth. FF9 is secretly terrifying. FF10 and FF13 both have arguments that get stupid very fast once you start taking their endgame feats seriously.

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This video is basically a ridiculous power-scaling bar fight between some of the most beloved parties in the series.

So who actually wins?

NEW FINAL FANTASY 6 REVEAL: Two Worlds. One Legendary Saga.

A new two-part Ensemble Chronicles set has arrived!! Reimagining FFVI across both halves of its legendary story, the theatrical adventure before the fall, and the shattered World of Ruin after Kefka ascends.

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Opera of Legends brings together Celes, Locke, Sabin, Edgar, Gau, Mog, Gogo, Cyan, Ultros, the Opera House, and the Phantom Train in one explosive tribute to FFVI’s wild, adventurous first half.

World of Ruin descends into Kefka’s victory: Terra, Setzer, Relm, Strago, Shadow, Interceptor, the Blackjack, Kefka’s Tower, and the divine madness of one of Final Fantasy’s greatest villains.

Two artworks. One saga. Final Fantasy VI rebuilt as a cinematic collector chronicle.

Final Fantasy has always understood something most fantasy stories miss: the non-human characters are not there just to be mascots, comic relief, or “cool creature design.” Very often, they are the moral center of the story.

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That’s where Emmanuel Levinas becomes such an interesting lens. In his Ethics of the Other, Levinas argues that true ethics begins not when we meet someone familiar, but when we encounter someone radically unlike ourselves. The face of the Other interrupts our ego and places a demand on us before we even understand them. Ethics comes first. Categorizing, judging, and reducing them comes later.

That is exactly why Nanaki, Vivi, Fran, Kimahri, Quina and so many others hit so hard in Final Fantasy. Human empires hunt them, exploit them, experiment on them, exile them, or laugh at them. And yet the games repeatedly make these so-called outsiders the clearest moral anchors in the cast. They are not less human for being alien. They are often more ethically legible than the societies rejecting them.

A quick Final Fantasy VII Remake / Rebirth art blast built around 7 pieces:

Ensemble Series, Nanaki, Vincent, Yuffie, Zack, Reno, and the wider FF7 energy that made me want to build this page in the first place.

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Basically, if this kind of art, mood, and character focus hits for you, then you’re probably exactly who this page is for.

There’s just something about Final Fantasy 9 that makes remake talk hit differently.

Maybe it’s the world.

Maybe it’s the cast.

Maybe it’s how Zidane, Garnet, Vivi, and the rest of the team already feel like they belong in something modern and cinematic without losing that storybook soul.

That’s the whole point of this video. It leans right into that FF9 Remake feeling with Zidane voice lines, fan-trailer energy, and a showcase of the wider collection from character pieces to the full ensemble works.

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This is basically a tribute to the version of Final Fantasy IX Remake a lot of us have already been imagining in our heads.

This is by far my favorite way to read Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth.

Not as a normal remake.

Not even as standard timeline chaos.

But as Plato’s anamnesis brought into high fantasy.

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Plato argued that the soul is eternal, that it once knew perfect truth in a higher realm, and that birth into the material world is a kind of forgetting. The body clouds memory. The world distracts. Truth gets buried. But under the right conditions, the soul can begin to recollect what it once knew. Trauma can do it. Beauty can do it. Cracks in ordinary reality can do it.

That is why this theory gets so interesting.

In FF7 Remake and Rebirth, the world itself has been traumatized. Sephiroth’s rebellion against his original defeat does not just alter events. It seems to create the exact fractures needed for recollection to begin. Cloud’s tears arrive before comprehension. Zack’s role stops obeying the old boundaries. Aerith moves as if she is half-inside memory and half-inside destiny. The more the world breaks, the more soul-level recognition starts leaking through.

And that is where Plato’s spiritual side matters too. Anamnesis is tied to immortality, rebirth, and the idea that philosophy is really a kind of awakening. The soul dimly remembers its divine origin and begins clawing its way back toward truth. In that sense, Rebirth is not just a subtitle. It may be the literal spiritual mechanism of the story.

The Monochrome Series is built so the paint is not just texture, it’s meaning. Hidden lore, symbolic shapes, embedded iconography, and visual clues tied directly to each Final Fantasy character.

Some viewers will spot them instantly.

Some will need a second pass.

Some will miss them completely.

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The older I get, the more I think the Lucian crown in Final Fantasy 15 is basically one of the most dressed-up death sentences in Final Fantasy. The lineage looks glorious on paper, but once you actually think about 113 kings across 2,000 years, the whole thing starts feeling way darker.

That’s what I wanted this Noctis piece to hold onto.

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