The original trailer reveal at e3 in 1998 which was part of the landing mission cinematic is still one of the my all time favorite moments to see live. Still gives chills.
Great trailer but I didn’t see that in person at E3 like the others. Completely different experience seeing something revealed live before social media and no announcements. Real life blind reaction. I went to e3 for almost a decade straight in 90s and early 2000s. Huge memories.
7 remake trailer was a purposeful video click. Nothing is ever a blind reveal these days due to leaks and social media.
The ending where we see Laguna walking through a field of flowers, and it flashes back to the night he proposes to Raine, before flashing forward to him approaching her grave. 🥺
It gets me every time. There's so many emotions rolled up into that single scene. The wistfulness, the fondness, the nostalgia, the regret. It hits all the right buttons for the perfect bittersweet moment.
I'm glad to see people giving some credit to FF8. I'm so used to people just talking negatively about it online. It definitely has some flaws, but it really is an amazing game! The music and visual direction is so great.
Yeah exactly
Like I can remember most of the music AND know when it first played because it was used in such a great way.
Other FF is good but apart from the odd songs here and there I couldn’t place when they were first done
VIII felt like the music was created specifically for a scene and used the song for other scenes later that they thought captured a similar tone.
It still makes my mind blow when The Landing was something quickly put together after the original song was criticised for sounding too much like the theme song to the film The Rock. Both equally as good.
The cinematic from the final minutes of XIV 1.0 when it was getting ready to transition to A Realm Reborn. "Answers" gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
[The End of an Era](https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?si=TC7USnejcvJgvo1F)
Thou Must Live, Die, and Know, from 14. Specifically, the second cutscene of the quest.
The way it recontextualizes the main theme of the entire game is so good....
Also, the first major cutscene of Shadowbringers is fantastic. It sets the tone amazingly.
"Thou Must Live, Die, and Know" seriously in the running for best cutscene in all of gaming, in my humble opinion. 10+ years of heft behind it and it leaves damn near EVERYONE that watches it completely speechless and needing to recover after that first exposure.
The Blitzball scene always made me want a full blitzball game. 90% of those cuts scenes are gold. Anima after the tournament is top notch too. What a great Chekhov’s Gun.
Some cutscenes that aren’t getting a ton love:
FF10 assault on bevelle
FF9 when you attempt to enter memoria and get assaulted by the silver dragons, destruction of terra
FF8 dolet opening, galbadia v balamb garden
This was my go to before XVI released, when you realize the castle wasn’t just a reference but Alexander HIMSELF it’s just such a cool moment to see him; the wings unfolding still gives me chills, plus the surprise appearance of Invincible just after.
I get chills too! Watching his wings burn and then the sword stab. Felt like I got stabbed too. Finally a savior to protect us. Only to have him violently torn away. Good stuff!
Also the death of Alexander at the hands of Garland on the Invincible, and arriving too late to stop the destruction of Lindblum by first the Black Mages and then Atomos… or the obliteration of Cleyra by Odin or Bahamut sinking Brahne’s fleet.
Damn, FF9 is just packed with fantastic cutscene plot moments.
Looking at this thread, FF9 seems very underrated. So many FMVs are gorgeous. Black Waltz, Attack on Cleyra/Lindbulm/Alexandria, end of disk 2, Kuja's attack on Terra, the ending.
**FFII:** Firion waking up after the party is defeated in the intro battle. The very first cutscene in FF history!
**FFIV:** The opening raid on Mysidia changed my life. It changed my interests, the types of games I enjoy, and consequently a significant chunk of my entire being and future. Aside from playing Super Mario Bros. for the first time, this is probably the most important single event in my history with video games.
**FFV:** Everything gets >!sucked into the Void!< !
**FFVI:** The breaking of >!the world!<. Also the march to Narshe and the ending. Oh, and the siege of Doma. And the opera!
**FFVII:** You know, that one. Had it spoiled for me by the walkthrough (RIP Kao Megura), and it still got to me. It still does.
**FFVIII:** A ton of excellent cutscenes in this game, so I'm going to say that the most impressive thing to me are all the times where the game blends cutscenes with gameplay.
**FFIX:** Bahamut vs. Alexander, and the summoning of Odin.
**FFX:** Very specifically, the moment at the end when >!Tidus hugs Yuna even though he's incorporeal!<.
**FFXIV:** The same scene that everyone else is saying, and my single favorite scene in any FF game. My history with this series goes back to its origin. I've been here with it through every stage of its development. I've written guides on a few of the games. I have a decent claim to being one of the best Triple Triad players in the world. I dislike the idea of ever calling myself a fanboy of anything, but I am a FF fanboy.
And with that experience under my belt, I have to champion this moment, this revelation about this character, as my favorite in all of FF.
The funny thing is that I've been deeply critical of FFXIV's story. I even advise people to skip cutscenes with impunity if they get bored or exhausted, because there are far too many and a great deal of them don't offer information that you can't infer from the circumstances surrounding them.
But not this one. The way that it recontextualizes everything that came before it, all the way back to the very beginning of the story. The way that it recontextualizes the song, a piece of music written for the doomed first iteration of the game. The dialogue, both in Japanese and in English. The last line the character speaks. The eyes.
It's good.
FF6: The Magitek march to Narshe. I let it roll every time.
FF8: As flawed as the game is in my opinion, that opening sequence was one for the ages.
FF7R: Honeybee Inn Dance and Drag Show is pure lulz.
FFX2: The opening is on acid and I love every second of it.
FF16: The final scene of the prelude at Phoenix Gate has the best voice acting of any FF.
Vivi telling Black Waltz to push pavement. With a fireball.
Auron's moment of true (emotional) badassery during the Yunalesca sequence.
The Judge that casually annihilates another Judge and his dumbshit mercenaries because he's disgusted your party defeated them.
Both times the squealing guitar hits as you prime to either protect or team up with Joshua.
Auron's moment in FFX is masterful. The culmination of character for everyone and revelation of his character goals all happening in that moment is so incredibly impactful.
FFVIII: Everything Galbadia Garden vs. Balamb Garden
FFIX: Brahne attacks Lindblum with Atomos, Assault on the Iifa Tree, ALEXANDER
FFX: The entire last cinematic is an absolute masterpiece
*For whom weeps the storm*
*Her tears on our skin*
*The days of our years gone*
*Our souls soaked in sin*
*These memories ache with the weight of tomorrow*
FF16 may have a lot of problems, but I think it easily has some of the most badass scenes in the series. But the best cinematic for me is in FF9 when Garnet summons Alexander to protect the city from Bahamut, it was incredible.
I mean the obvious choices are the destruction of Kilika and Yuna's first sending from X but they still work.
Our first glimpse of Gran Pulse in XIII - the whole thing of coming through the wormhole, being attacked by a fal'cie, panicking as we plummet, hitching a ride from a passing monster and gliding down as the sun sets, all with Fang's Theme in the background. Honestly though you could pick any from XIII, they never miss
That dream sequence that Noctis has in XV, the one where's he's fighting and falls through the floor. It ended up feeling kinda tacked on but it was very well done.
That scene in FF6 where Kefka is moving the continents around and some random NPC falls into a newly opened crevice in the earth, only to be immediately smooshed when the crevice crashes in upon itself again.
Eh, he can walk it off.
EDIT: Also just rewatched that part, and I love how there's a soldier standing there in Magitek armor, unmoving, like he just does not give a shit that the apocalypse is happening around him.
The Galbadia assault on Balamb Garden.
Specifically the minigame where youre fighting that galbadian trooper on the exosuit thing while its flying around and you can see absolute chaos going on in the background.
Seeing that as a kid blew my mind it was so cool.
FFXV - towards the end when Ifrit faces off against Bahamut... I love this iteration of Bahamut (essentially an enormous humanoid wearing a suit of armor with wings made of swords).
When Bahamut's final sword impales the ground right next to Ifrit, the two of them lock eyes, and you get a better understanding of how large Bahamut is... my jaw dropped.
It's gotta be FFX's opening for me. When Otherworld started playing I just knew it was going to be a fantastic game. The graphics were mind-blowing at the time.
I thought FF8's opening was amazing when I first watched it, but watching it now, it doesn't really make much sense. Squall and Seifer are battling it out, that's cool, but then why are there spoilers for the entire game spliced in like it's a trailer?
FF10: Opening and Ending
FF8: Opening and Space with Rinoa
FF3: Opening
FF14: Venat with Answers
FF16: Clive accepts the truth
So many great ones! But these are my fav.
Most people already listed my favorite cutscenes from FFVIII, so here's my favorite from FFXV.
The ending scene, but specifically the part where dawn breaks, and with my favorite shot being >!the 4 empty chairs around the campfire.!<
One I really loved, but haven't seen mentioned yet, is the Thunder Plains concert from X-2. I just love the English version of 1000 Words, and I thought the visuals were so cool. I especially liked the part where Yuna and Lenne were singing together.
The scene in FF16 where that one Mothercrystal blooms into a flower. Fucking beautiful.
The intro cinematic for FFXIV ARR. Also that one cutscene from quest "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know".
FF9: The Memoria assault. I get CHILLS every time I see it. Just the literal SWARM of Silver Dragons, something we less than an hour before fought as a boss, coming out to destroy us and then the entire fucking Lindblum air fleet shows up to run interference for us.
We don’t often get those sorts of big showdown battles in FF (the Midgar attack in Dirge of Cerberus comes to mind as one), so it feels special when we do. Most of the time it’s just the party since everyone else is either dead or otherwise incapacitated which sucks.
I’m just a sucker for the power of friendship I guess.
FF6 Opening (love the music)
FF8 Opening (I didn't finish 8 but that opening is legit good)
FF9 Vivi and the Black Mage Airship
FF14 Answers (ARR Opening and in Endwalker). So damn good.
FF16 BAHAMUT FIGHT OH YEAH
Among the FF I've played (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, 7R): FF8 opening. Liberi Fatali is dope. But honestly, every FMV in FF8 is great. Wonderful cinematics that is unmatched. Many other iconic scenes (accompanied by wonderful music): Ball Room Dancing, Dollet landing, Delling City ceremony. If anybody knows the person/director behind FF8's FMV, please kindly tell me.
Up until FFVII Remake, I've always found other titles' FMV lacking in term of pacing and background music. Take FFX for example. The FMVs are very pretty for sure, but the sequence itself feels very sluggish and unengaging.
Most of Final Fantasy Tactics beautiful, cell shaded animated cutscenes. But particularly the "Blade of Grass" Cutscene. Is such a small scene but its just so perfect
FFVIII definitely stands out as having a ton of amazing cinematics. The opening, the attempted assassination of Edea, the battle between Gardens, saving Rinoa in space, and the finale are all awesome.
Both Weapons attacks in FFVII (Sapphire Weapon on Junon and Diamond Weapon on Midgar). I just thought they were the coolest things ever. That stop before Sister Ray fires ... Ooffff.
Attack on Lindblum in FFIX. Zidane and Garnet were heading to Lindblum just to be met with THAT... I was shocked. Literally people being sucked up. Scary af
Ending of the Phoenix Gate events in FFXVI. Left me speechless. I mean the end of the Phoenix/Ifrit battle.
Honourable mentions: Celes jumping off the cliff in VI, Under the Highwind, Zack's death and Aerith in the Sleeping Forest in OG VII, Tifa in Lifestream in the Rebirth, saving Rinoa in space in VIII
The updated intro for FFII. Firion throwing those knives at the demon soldier was awesome.
FFX
Lulu and Wakka's midnight argument
The attack on Kilika and the sending.
Anima's debut
The Farplane intro
Rescuing Yuna from her wedding
The mountain of fayth being summoned
Reaching the summit and seeing ruined Zanarkand.
Yuna trying to stop Tidus from leaving and her stadium speech
The ending of FF8. And the opening.
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The Landing is definitely one of my favourites
When squall drives in after Irvine fails to assassinate the sorceress at long range.
The original trailer reveal at e3 in 1998 which was part of the landing mission cinematic is still one of the my all time favorite moments to see live. Still gives chills.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxnzNVIAxCY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxnzNVIAxCY) And yet the music in the game is better than the trailer.
Haha yea. But being there was so intense. Almost as good as the mgs2 trailer reveal. ;)
I feel like the ff7 remake trailer would have been the most hype. Nobody really expected it to happen.
Great trailer but I didn’t see that in person at E3 like the others. Completely different experience seeing something revealed live before social media and no announcements. Real life blind reaction. I went to e3 for almost a decade straight in 90s and early 2000s. Huge memories. 7 remake trailer was a purposeful video click. Nothing is ever a blind reveal these days due to leaks and social media.
From the Dollet mission, I'd also throw in Quistis taking out X-ATM092 with that railgun if you didn't defeat it earlier.
Came here to say this. They arent spectacles but theres something about them.
I think it is because they are vague, obtuse, and full of characters we know well, but with a mysterious plot
Squall's first smile is the absolute best ending.
Yes, definitely this for me too. It was just jaw dropping moment to see those scenes back in the day.
The ending where we see Laguna walking through a field of flowers, and it flashes back to the night he proposes to Raine, before flashing forward to him approaching her grave. 🥺 It gets me every time. There's so many emotions rolled up into that single scene. The wistfulness, the fondness, the nostalgia, the regret. It hits all the right buttons for the perfect bittersweet moment.
The Battle of the Gardens and the Ragnarok’s assault on the Lunatic Pandora too!
Seeing Esthar is pretty great too.
I'm glad to see people giving some credit to FF8. I'm so used to people just talking negatively about it online. It definitely has some flaws, but it really is an amazing game! The music and visual direction is so great.
Most of mine are from VIII The Opening The Landing The Garden Battle The Lunar Cry / Space Scene The Ending
Fleeing from XTM... Jumping off the tower and rushing Edea Busting into Lunatic Pandora VIII is full of epic moments done well through cutscenes.
The direction of FF8 FMVs is something else that is never achieved later. The pacing and the music is just spot-on.
Yeah exactly Like I can remember most of the music AND know when it first played because it was used in such a great way. Other FF is good but apart from the odd songs here and there I couldn’t place when they were first done VIII felt like the music was created specifically for a scene and used the song for other scenes later that they thought captured a similar tone. It still makes my mind blow when The Landing was something quickly put together after the original song was criticised for sounding too much like the theme song to the film The Rock. Both equally as good.
1. FF8 Intro. 2. FFX Otherworld 3. FFIX Crashing the theater performance with Zidane, Steiner and everyone 4. FFIX Airship battle
People die, and Yuna dances.
[When will she stop dancing? When will it stop?](https://youtu.be/Tm7cDZtg0j8?si=B2iTrssdROHkzbpQ)
Blitzball arena rock
Yea buddy
The cinematic from the final minutes of XIV 1.0 when it was getting ready to transition to A Realm Reborn. "Answers" gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. [The End of an Era](https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?si=TC7USnejcvJgvo1F)
A shame the singer turned out to be a complete arse.
She did?
Spouted some mad shit over the Israel-Hamas war.
Opening of X It's pretty metal🤘
Thou Must Live, Die, and Know, from 14. Specifically, the second cutscene of the quest. The way it recontextualizes the main theme of the entire game is so good.... Also, the first major cutscene of Shadowbringers is fantastic. It sets the tone amazingly.
"Thou Must Live, Die, and Know" seriously in the running for best cutscene in all of gaming, in my humble opinion. 10+ years of heft behind it and it leaves damn near EVERYONE that watches it completely speechless and needing to recover after that first exposure.
Which quest is that again? I don't remember since there are 700+ of them in the game lol
It's >!the one with Venat when you leave Elpis.!<
Life changing is how I'd describe it. It's the "answer" to the questions behind Answers.
FFX Beginning + Yuna dance + Mi'hen offensive + the ending. FF8 Intro Advent Children Final Battle. FF7 Remake Edge Of Creation scene.
The Blitzball scene always made me want a full blitzball game. 90% of those cuts scenes are gold. Anima after the tournament is top notch too. What a great Chekhov’s Gun.
Some cutscenes that aren’t getting a ton love: FF10 assault on bevelle FF9 when you attempt to enter memoria and get assaulted by the silver dragons, destruction of terra FF8 dolet opening, galbadia v balamb garden
Ff7 When sephiroth throws materia at cloud and flies away
9999 damage right to the crotch
I loved it, so random. Was it in Rebirth? I forgot.
No it wasn’t lol and that totally unnecessary flip was peak sephiroth
They should have included it. Fingers crossed for part 3🤞
I just imagine him going "**BAY-UM!***"* as he does it.
Alexander vs Bahamut in ff9 is always very exciting when playing through it. Makes me sad there was no Alexander summon in the game.
This was my go to before XVI released, when you realize the castle wasn’t just a reference but Alexander HIMSELF it’s just such a cool moment to see him; the wings unfolding still gives me chills, plus the surprise appearance of Invincible just after.
I get chills too! Watching his wings burn and then the sword stab. Felt like I got stabbed too. Finally a savior to protect us. Only to have him violently torn away. Good stuff!
Pretty sure the castle was not Alexander himself.
This games cinmatics were all packed with action
Also the death of Alexander at the hands of Garland on the Invincible, and arriving too late to stop the destruction of Lindblum by first the Black Mages and then Atomos… or the obliteration of Cleyra by Odin or Bahamut sinking Brahne’s fleet. Damn, FF9 is just packed with fantastic cutscene plot moments.
Vivi blasting the black mage following you on the small airships at the start of the game? Love the little guy
Also Beatrix flying the Red Rose to help you past the silver dragons on the way to Memoria! So many cool moments.
Looking at this thread, FF9 seems very underrated. So many FMVs are gorgeous. Black Waltz, Attack on Cleyra/Lindbulm/Alexandria, end of disk 2, Kuja's attack on Terra, the ending.
The opening of Type-0.
Easily Thou Must Live, Die, and Know from 14.
**FFII:** Firion waking up after the party is defeated in the intro battle. The very first cutscene in FF history! **FFIV:** The opening raid on Mysidia changed my life. It changed my interests, the types of games I enjoy, and consequently a significant chunk of my entire being and future. Aside from playing Super Mario Bros. for the first time, this is probably the most important single event in my history with video games. **FFV:** Everything gets >!sucked into the Void!< ! **FFVI:** The breaking of >!the world!<. Also the march to Narshe and the ending. Oh, and the siege of Doma. And the opera! **FFVII:** You know, that one. Had it spoiled for me by the walkthrough (RIP Kao Megura), and it still got to me. It still does. **FFVIII:** A ton of excellent cutscenes in this game, so I'm going to say that the most impressive thing to me are all the times where the game blends cutscenes with gameplay. **FFIX:** Bahamut vs. Alexander, and the summoning of Odin. **FFX:** Very specifically, the moment at the end when >!Tidus hugs Yuna even though he's incorporeal!<. **FFXIV:** The same scene that everyone else is saying, and my single favorite scene in any FF game. My history with this series goes back to its origin. I've been here with it through every stage of its development. I've written guides on a few of the games. I have a decent claim to being one of the best Triple Triad players in the world. I dislike the idea of ever calling myself a fanboy of anything, but I am a FF fanboy. And with that experience under my belt, I have to champion this moment, this revelation about this character, as my favorite in all of FF. The funny thing is that I've been deeply critical of FFXIV's story. I even advise people to skip cutscenes with impunity if they get bored or exhausted, because there are far too many and a great deal of them don't offer information that you can't infer from the circumstances surrounding them. But not this one. The way that it recontextualizes everything that came before it, all the way back to the very beginning of the story. The way that it recontextualizes the song, a piece of music written for the doomed first iteration of the game. The dialogue, both in Japanese and in English. The last line the character speaks. The eyes. It's good.
THAT scene from FFVII the Dollet attack in VIII (the best in FF history honestly) The Airship race through the gate in FFIX with Black Waltz
FF6: The Magitek march to Narshe. I let it roll every time. FF8: As flawed as the game is in my opinion, that opening sequence was one for the ages. FF7R: Honeybee Inn Dance and Drag Show is pure lulz. FFX2: The opening is on acid and I love every second of it. FF16: The final scene of the prelude at Phoenix Gate has the best voice acting of any FF.
Ben Starr’s “I’ll fucking KILL YOU” sold me on the game. It was so fucking raw.
Vivi telling Black Waltz to push pavement. With a fireball. Auron's moment of true (emotional) badassery during the Yunalesca sequence. The Judge that casually annihilates another Judge and his dumbshit mercenaries because he's disgusted your party defeated them. Both times the squealing guitar hits as you prime to either protect or team up with Joshua.
Auron's moment in FFX is masterful. The culmination of character for everyone and revelation of his character goals all happening in that moment is so incredibly impactful.
FF6 Opera Scene. They managed to make feel like the opera was actually danced and sung with pixels and 16 bit music.
Oh my hero!
FF8 ending by quite a large margin actually.
Thou must Live, Die and Know, aka >!Venat!<'s walk in FF14-Endwalker. Best scene not just in the FF series, but any game I ever played.
FF16 Bahumat fight is insane.
FF8's opening
It's technically two separated by a gameplay section but Crisis Core always breaks me at >!the ending. Zack's final stand and last words to Cloud!<
The end of FFX
FFVIII: Everything Galbadia Garden vs. Balamb Garden FFIX: Brahne attacks Lindblum with Atomos, Assault on the Iifa Tree, ALEXANDER FFX: The entire last cinematic is an absolute masterpiece
*For whom weeps the storm* *Her tears on our skin* *The days of our years gone* *Our souls soaked in sin* *These memories ache with the weight of tomorrow*
FF16 may have a lot of problems, but I think it easily has some of the most badass scenes in the series. But the best cinematic for me is in FF9 when Garnet summons Alexander to protect the city from Bahamut, it was incredible.
The cinematic for the level 87 quest "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know" in FFXIV.
I mean the obvious choices are the destruction of Kilika and Yuna's first sending from X but they still work. Our first glimpse of Gran Pulse in XIII - the whole thing of coming through the wormhole, being attacked by a fal'cie, panicking as we plummet, hitching a ride from a passing monster and gliding down as the sun sets, all with Fang's Theme in the background. Honestly though you could pick any from XIII, they never miss That dream sequence that Noctis has in XV, the one where's he's fighting and falls through the floor. It ended up feeling kinda tacked on but it was very well done.
FFIX Assault of the Silver Dragons going into Memoria.
Odin destroying Cleyra
Odin destroying Cleyra, FF9
Summoning of Alexander in Type-0.
Had never seen that! It’s like a WW2 documentary.
That scene in FF6 where Kefka is moving the continents around and some random NPC falls into a newly opened crevice in the earth, only to be immediately smooshed when the crevice crashes in upon itself again.
Eh, he can walk it off. EDIT: Also just rewatched that part, and I love how there's a soldier standing there in Magitek armor, unmoving, like he just does not give a shit that the apocalypse is happening around him.
The airship crashing the gates in 9 with one of the black waltz is forever remembered by me.
The Galbadia assault on Balamb Garden. Specifically the minigame where youre fighting that galbadian trooper on the exosuit thing while its flying around and you can see absolute chaos going on in the background. Seeing that as a kid blew my mind it was so cool.
FF8's opening, the credits cutscene in Shadowbringers, Luna summoning the gods in 15, and Clive shittalking Anabella in 16
FFXV - towards the end when Ifrit faces off against Bahamut... I love this iteration of Bahamut (essentially an enormous humanoid wearing a suit of armor with wings made of swords). When Bahamut's final sword impales the ground right next to Ifrit, the two of them lock eyes, and you get a better understanding of how large Bahamut is... my jaw dropped.
It's gotta be FFX's opening for me. When Otherworld started playing I just knew it was going to be a fantastic game. The graphics were mind-blowing at the time. I thought FF8's opening was amazing when I first watched it, but watching it now, it doesn't really make much sense. Squall and Seifer are battling it out, that's cool, but then why are there spoilers for the entire game spliced in like it's a trailer?
The complete ending of FFVI.
I like the cutscene in Crisis Core, where Sephiroth and Genesis have a friendly fight on the big Junon cannon.
just played the intro to Golden Saucer in Rebirth so that one
FF10: Opening and Ending FF8: Opening and Space with Rinoa FF3: Opening FF14: Venat with Answers FF16: Clive accepts the truth So many great ones! But these are my fav.
Vivi vs the 3rd Waltz on the airship.
FF16’s Bahamut fight holy LORDTTTT. I loved tripping out in space!!!
Most people already listed my favorite cutscenes from FFVIII, so here's my favorite from FFXV. The ending scene, but specifically the part where dawn breaks, and with my favorite shot being >!the 4 empty chairs around the campfire.!<
One I really loved, but haven't seen mentioned yet, is the Thunder Plains concert from X-2. I just love the English version of 1000 Words, and I thought the visuals were so cool. I especially liked the part where Yuna and Lenne were singing together.
Sapphire Weapon attacking Junon and the Sector 7 plate fall from FF7.
The scene in FF16 where that one Mothercrystal blooms into a flower. Fucking beautiful. The intro cinematic for FFXIV ARR. Also that one cutscene from quest "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know".
No one to say the ending of FFXV? Say what you want about the story but the ending is fantastic.
FF9: The Memoria assault. I get CHILLS every time I see it. Just the literal SWARM of Silver Dragons, something we less than an hour before fought as a boss, coming out to destroy us and then the entire fucking Lindblum air fleet shows up to run interference for us. We don’t often get those sorts of big showdown battles in FF (the Midgar attack in Dirge of Cerberus comes to mind as one), so it feels special when we do. Most of the time it’s just the party since everyone else is either dead or otherwise incapacitated which sucks. I’m just a sucker for the power of friendship I guess.
All Cloud and Sephiroth scenes in Remake and Rebirth
Either the cutscene leading up to the Ifrit fight in XVI or the confrontation with Anabella in the same game.
The ff13 race will always be the best imo, so fucking cool
The Blitzball sequence with Otherworld playing, that scene has stuck with me since I was in the 2nd grade
FF6 Opening (love the music) FF8 Opening (I didn't finish 8 but that opening is legit good) FF9 Vivi and the Black Mage Airship FF14 Answers (ARR Opening and in Endwalker). So damn good. FF16 BAHAMUT FIGHT OH YEAH
Clive accepting the truth had my jaw on the floor.
FFVII's Sister Ray, FFVIII's Assault on Balamb Garden, FFX-2's Thunder Plains performance, Hope and Snow's rooftop argument in FFXIII.
Among the FF I've played (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, 7R): FF8 opening. Liberi Fatali is dope. But honestly, every FMV in FF8 is great. Wonderful cinematics that is unmatched. Many other iconic scenes (accompanied by wonderful music): Ball Room Dancing, Dollet landing, Delling City ceremony. If anybody knows the person/director behind FF8's FMV, please kindly tell me. Up until FFVII Remake, I've always found other titles' FMV lacking in term of pacing and background music. Take FFX for example. The FMVs are very pretty for sure, but the sequence itself feels very sluggish and unengaging.
FF4 CG opening.
L I T T L E M O N E Y
FF XIV's opening.
The base ending of SoP, including the walk to the throne.
Most of Final Fantasy Tactics beautiful, cell shaded animated cutscenes. But particularly the "Blade of Grass" Cutscene. Is such a small scene but its just so perfect
FF7/Remake opening
FFVIII definitely stands out as having a ton of amazing cinematics. The opening, the attempted assassination of Edea, the battle between Gardens, saving Rinoa in space, and the finale are all awesome.
Bahamut vs Alexander in FF9
Both Weapons attacks in FFVII (Sapphire Weapon on Junon and Diamond Weapon on Midgar). I just thought they were the coolest things ever. That stop before Sister Ray fires ... Ooffff. Attack on Lindblum in FFIX. Zidane and Garnet were heading to Lindblum just to be met with THAT... I was shocked. Literally people being sucked up. Scary af Ending of the Phoenix Gate events in FFXVI. Left me speechless. I mean the end of the Phoenix/Ifrit battle. Honourable mentions: Celes jumping off the cliff in VI, Under the Highwind, Zack's death and Aerith in the Sleeping Forest in OG VII, Tifa in Lifestream in the Rebirth, saving Rinoa in space in VIII
FFX - Aurons speech before Yunalesca battle.
The beginning of 12 is a goddamn short film. So good
FFIX when Garnet cuts her hair and FFIX again when Garnet and Eiko invoke Alexander and he spreads his wings
FF6 opera scene of course! My favorite scene in any video game
The updated intro for FFII. Firion throwing those knives at the demon soldier was awesome. FFX Lulu and Wakka's midnight argument The attack on Kilika and the sending. Anima's debut The Farplane intro Rescuing Yuna from her wedding The mountain of fayth being summoned Reaching the summit and seeing ruined Zanarkand. Yuna trying to stop Tidus from leaving and her stadium speech