Having now played all of them except 11, 13-3, and 15...

Sleepwalk

• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 14 MSQ only

May have to think sometimes

• 1
• 5
• 10-2
• 12

Some tough spots

• 2
• 4
• 10
• 13-2
• 14 normal and alliance raids

Hard

• 3
• Tactics
• 13
• 14 EX trials

Bonus challenge run listings

Fun

• 5 four job fiesta

Insanely Tedious

• 100% 12
• 100% 13

Will take weeks

• 14 Savage/Ultimate raids

Lol, lmao, don't do this to yourself

• 9 Excalibur 2 speedrun
• 100% 10
• 100% 10-2 in one playthrough (you WILL need a guide)

Correct answer for all Final Fantasy games.

FFVI is one of the easiest RPGs i've ever played

you want to start with the easiest but your favourite is xi.... ?

just pick any cus anything would be fisher price compared

Final Fantasy X is the easiest game in an easy franchise, but some bosses will still be hard.

The newer versions of games generally have a few boosters that make the games even easier, and if everything else fails, it is pretty easy to cheat on PC games.

Ff4 is a good option. Good for beginners (not a huge amount of customization) amd it has a lot of the stuff people love about the series. It's not the best ff game, but I think it's a great starting point.

FF15. You literally cant die thanks to item spamming.

FF15. Item spam and summons coming to the rescue was pretty rediculous.

I found 7 particularly easy. A lot of random encounters can be skipped without missing that much exp, and bosses go down without much trouble.

I think X is the easiest. I don't say that to disparage the game - it's also my favourite.

The reason I say X is that most/all of the bosses have set attack patterns and the turn based battles make it very easy to exploit that. As long as you don't run away from too many battles and you swap in characters to level up you shouldn't need to grind at all to get through the main story.

There are certainly a few harder bosses towards the end for unprepared players, but even they can be beaten easily enough with Aeons and/or Overdrives.

To be honest, I don't think any of the ones since VII are particularly difficult once you understand the systems, but some of them are simpler than others.

I honestly think simply finishing Final Fantasy VII is really easy. If I compare it to the X or VIII, IX entries. Same for XIII. These have some gate bosses that are considered 'hard' if you are unprepared. All those do have cheesy game breaking mecanics though.

Ff8 can be exploited so early and easily. By far the easiest game

You can beat FF6 low level and fairly quickly, so to me that translates as an easy game if you take your time.

Mystic quest. Its incredibly easy.

Underrated everything except story tbh

Rueben, pheobe, and tristam are legit cool characters, the mechanics were refreshing, and the world was well crafted. The node based world map was nice, the battle fields a fun way to give bonuses, and the overall zelda-like dungeon crawl aspects really set it apart.

I would LOVE for a full blown remake or spiritual successor using the same everything but not limited to 4 abilities per class

X is pretty easy until about 3/4 of the way through.

VIII is very easy if you stay low level and play cards (mod cards into powerful magics to junction) early on.

XII Zodiac Age is very easy because each character can learn 2 job boards in a game that is balanced around the original version (IZJS) which only allowed 1 job per character, allowing you to have doubly strong and balanced characters.

Easiest is by far Mystic Quest on SNES. Original SNES release of 4 is pretty easy as well. Outside of SNES, 10 and 15 are probably the easiest.

I would say most are rather easy outside of the first 3 ,13 and 8

XV, X-2, and VIII if you play it right.

I'd say the easiest are probably VI, VII, and XV. All of the people here saying X have clearly never tried to beat the game without ever grinding. It's a bitch and a half, especially towards the end. Definitely one of the hardest games in the series if you play it that way, up there with IV DS, V and XIII.

Recency bias, while 16 has too many accessibility options making it easier, it's NOT easier than 15. 15 has a single attack button you are required to just hold, dodging is completely optional. Leviathan "battle" is just holding circle for 5 minutes.

15. Outside of a single dungeon, you can spam items and almost never die.

Its impossible really to die in 15. 16 was easy on normal difficulty yes, but there was still some challenge. Item spam in 15 makes it next to impossible to die

Final Fantasy 2 Pixel Remaster. Beat the whole game without getting a game over

In 15 specifically you have a dying phase. Potion negates it and refills the dying gauge for next time. You only die if you're out of items. Unlike other FFs where team wipe was infact a teamwipe minus autolife

By a wide margin:

Mystic Quest.

Yes, the bastard Final Fantasy game.

I wouldn't say you're alone, though I played it on hard mode without grinding at all (grinding doesn't do much of anything really due to the soft level caps). I think most people tend to get stumped here and there in that game.

Triangle Strategy is decently difficult if you play very impatiently, the game is a slow play's dream though because of all the goofy stalls and siege sets up you can do with traps, ladders, and how good archers are (alongside AI exploits). The game doesn't convey how it works very well because characters like Benedict have really inflated value because you don't get a good gauge of how good his stat buffs really are.

If you play it like Fire Emblem or FFT where running forward and bashing works, you're screwed. If you play it like a more "traditional" strategy game with EXP on the side where exploiting height and terrain to camp out enemies paired with focusing on disabling their actions then its not that bad, though can be tedious depending on your tastes.

Tales of Arise was pretty savage on Hard Mode, meanwhile others claim it's super easy even on Unknown mode.

Octopath I personally think is very easy most of the time, but some people swear its difficult and you need to grind for hours to beat the story. Game is stupid easy except for maybe 6 fights in total and most of those are optional/postgame so I know most people didn't fight them.

• Hard for others, I found easy: Megaten, its all about buff/debuffs in the end
• Easy for others, hard for me: FF7 Remake/Rebirth, its kinda clunky tbh, had to set the game to easy, hitting enemies feels good, but dodging/counters are really really hard to do, I try my best but I got annoyed and just try to enjoy the game which has a lot of nice stuff outside of combat

I dunno, I am one of the people that loves these games but to me, if a game does not offer a challenge that requires me to consider how I play the game to be successful, it's not enjoyable.

I actually find this problem to be the biggest issue with the JRPG genre. Most games can be beaten very easily with next to no consideration to how you play them. It's just going through the motions. The "brain off" games, as people call them have not appeal to me.

That's why I heap praise on games with good well-balanced difficulty options and good difficulty mods.

Here is the thing, if you think that Final Fantasy X is hard but Final Fantasy VIII is easy, is because you didn't put the same time to understand the mechanics of either game. Which means that Final Fantasy X can be beaten without understanding the mechanics of the game, and that makes it really easy.

FF1 is easy IF you’re using a walk through.

I would have never beaten it without one. Way too dated and tedious to know what to pick up where at what time in what order without wasting an unbelievable amount of time lol

Braska's Final Aeon can be pretty difficult, too, if you didn't do sidequests and don't cheese with something like Trio of 9999.

I mean if this list is taking game knowledge into account, then X should be rated way easier. It's harder on a first playthrough going into like 2 bosses, but otherwise it's incredibly easy to break (though ofc not quite as easy as VIII).

Which version of 1 are you basing this on?

Also, VI is easy before Ultima. Terra and Celes can easily heal the entire party to full in one cast for most of the game, and things like Edgar's tools and Sabin's blitzes can take enemies out extremely quickly. And Osmose makes it trivial to maintain full MP.

And for XVI, I don't think you should judge the game based on the use of what are essentially cheat items. But I'd still rate the game in the easiest tier (at least until you get to Final Fantasy difficulty in the second playthrough).

i've got the platinum trophies for pixal remasters 1-5. only reason i don't have 6 is because I just haven't gotten around to it yet. It's all pretty trivial with a guide, not sure how easy it would be without one though.

FF1 is the easiest simply because there is less stuff and nothing missable. Might take a while encounter Warmech for the bestiary, but that's it

OG is very easy to get platinum.

I used to like 4, now I absolutely hate it.

Edit: I can not remember a single game where I had to automate farming a red dragon with a Mindflayer.

1, it’s got extremely minimal side content.

Definitely FF IV is the easiest

Wait the people who are saying 4 don't mean the ds versions right? Cuz that was not easy

The pedantic answer is "it depends which version."

But I think the general consensus would be the US versions 4 (2D) or 6 (GBA/PS/Steam).

I'll say 4. Even though 4 has a couple steep difficulty hills as you progress, the game always gives you the opportunity to meet the bar.

There are a couple legitimate ways to get hardstuck in 6 with little practical recourse than a complete restart if you are rolling on one save file. That would end up being the tie breaker for me.

How are people saying IV I had a way easier time with V and an even easier time with VI.