[kupoartist]

VI: Pretty fly for a SNES guy. Ok, i'm yet to see it, but i know most of it. Shadow's implied suicide (if you haven't already killed him!) is one of the more unique aspects of the ending, which clocks in at 20 minutes or so. The final boss battle is supposedly pretty good as well...

VII: by far 7's greatest weakness, is how it leaves things open at the end. So open in fact, that people can claim that "all humanity is destroyed" because of a few swirley green things seen moving towards a single city, (later in ruins) and with absolutely no other evidence to back it up. 7's ending isn't particurally wow, it doesn't sum things up nicely, but i can't say i was disappointed when I saw it: the final boss battles were enough.

VIII: I've always been biased towards 8, because it was my first FF. I liked the characters and story immensley, and thought the ending was emotional, funny and satisfying Well worth it as the only one i've seen on more than one playthrough...

IX: Liked it. 9 was a bit creaky in places, but the ending was probably the most conclusive, and the whole vine chase sequence was all good fun.

X:

Whether it has a great or poor ending does not influence my opinion that it's not a good game.

Which pretty much sums it up. By Spank's Definition, FFX is technically a good ending: it has relevent to the rest of the game, and well orchestrated, buliding up to a climax that even I found quite emotional... but really, I just didn't like the story.

Tidus is the product of a dream made real.

I permenantly lost interest after that revelation came out. I don't expect FF games to be particuarlly realistic, but thats just plain stupid. Even in the realms of fantasy, thats is far too far-fetched, and irreverent for my liking. And then they had Yuna give some totally underwhelming primary-school speech to round it off - "everyone has lost someone" or something truely unmemorable. It's bad enough that I had to be forced to listen to her totally uninspired voice-work at all, but to end the game with it? EEWWW....

and the ending couldn't have been that good, or they'd have never made a Charlie's Angels 3.