CONTENTS Retrospectives:
Features:
8 10 12-13 14-15 16 18-19 20-21 24-25 34-35 37 38-39 42-43 48-49 54-55 62-63 66-67 72 94-95 96-97 107 108
Behind the Games 4-5 THE GENESIS OF A LEGEND 26-27 LIFE, DEATH & LOVE TRIANGLES 57 PLAYONLINE & ADD-ONS 58 VANAFEST, LEGACIES & A COMPETITION 78-83 WORLD & LORE: THE TRUE STAR OF FF 86-90 BATTLE SYSTEM HISTORY 91-93 FF’s WORLD OF MERCH 127 TECH DEMO HISTORY 110 MUSICAL MAGIC: DISTANT WORLDS 114-115 REPORT: DISTANT WORLDS: THE CELEBRATION 116 MUST-LISTEN FF MUSIC ALBUMS
FINAL FANTASY FINAL FANTASY II FINAL FANTASY III FINAL FANTASY IV THE AFTER YEARS FINAL FANTASY V FINAL FANTASY VI FINAL FANTASY VII COMPILATION OF FFVII ADVENT CHILDREN FINAL FANTASY VIII FINAL FANTASY IX FINAL FANTASY X FINAL FANTASY XI FINAL FANTASY XII FINAL FANTASY XIII FINAL FANTASY XIV FINAL FANTASY TACTICS THE SPIRITS WITHIN CRYSTAL CHRONICLES THE CRYSTAL BEARERS
All About: 56 FFXI EXPANSIONS EXPLAINED 60 FFXI: SEEKERS OF ADOULIN 70 LIGHTNING RETURNS 73 A REALM REBORN 118 THEATRHYTHM FF 122 FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 124-125 VERSUS XIII
Developer Profiles: 9 Hironobu Sakaguchi 11 Yoshitaka Amano, Nasir Gebelli & Kenji Terada 17 Takashi Tokita 23 Ken Narita & Hideo Minaba 36 Tetsuya Nomura 41 Kazushige Nojima & Yusuke Naora 47 Hiroyuki Ito 65 Yasumi Matsuno 69 Yoshinori Kitase 71 Motomu Toriyama & Isamu Kamikokuryo 77 Hiromichi Tanaka & Naoki Yoshida 109 Akitoshi Kawazu & Kumi Tanioka 117 Nobuo Uematsu 119 Hitoshi Sakimoto & Masashi Hamauzu 123 Hajime Tabata & Takeharu Ishimoto
Character Highlights 30 SEPHIROTH’S TRIUMPH 31 RUFUS, THE UNDERRATED 44 BEATRIX - FFIX’s HIDDEN GEM 68 NOEL & CAIUS: THE BEST OF FFXIII-2 Did You Know? 40 SQUALL’S DEAD: A CHILLING THEORY 32-33 HIDDEN CONTENT: SECRETS OF FFVII 46 FLASHBACK: FFIX REFERENCES 59 THE BATTLE HEARD AROUND THE WORLD 100-101 COLLISION COURSE: SQUARE ENIX’S BIRTH 104 DEAL BREAKER: WHY FF LEFT NINTENDO 105 DEAL MAKER: FF’S RETURN TO NINTENDO Opinion 22 BALANCE & RUIN: A GENIUS GAME CHANGER 28-29 FFVII REMAKE: JUST A DREAM? 45 THE GENIUS OF SUMMONS IN STORY 50-51 RELIGION & FINAL FANTASY X 52-53 IN DEFENCE OF FINAL FANTASY X-2 64 ZODIAC JOB SYSTEM: THE DEFINITIVE FFXII 98 CHRONO TRIGGER: FF’s FORGOTTEN BROTHER 99 HOW DRAGON QUEST HELPED FF 102-103 KINGDOM HEARTS - A SIGN OF FF’s FUTURE 106 BRING FF TO THE WII U 120-121 TO GO FORWARD, LOOK BACK 126 AGNI’S PHILOSOPHY Interviews 61 FFXI DEVELOPMENT TEAM 74-76 NAOKI YOSHIDA 111-113 ARNIE ROTH And Finally...
4-5 SAKAGUCHI ON FINAL FANTASY 84-85 DEVELOPER QUOTES 128-129 CREDITS / LEGAL / THE END 3