Another thing to be mentioned: what console does your friend have primarily? Because most of these are available for Playstation forms, but not always, and what's available now are also cross-platform, such as on handhelds and on iOS. Of the top of my head, the ones for iOS are Final Fantasy III, FF Tactics: War of the Lions, annnnnnd yeah. I'm pretty sure there's more.
Speaking of Tactics, there's also spin-off games. Ivalice Alliance, for one, has not only Tactics (available for PSP and iOS and Android) and its respective sequels, but also Vagrant Story (which has achieved rave reviews). Unless, this person's not one for Tactical RPGs in general, though the story is very good.
For the Wii, there's the Crystal Chronicles series, as well as two other games of that nature on the nintendo DS. I can't say that I've played them to judge its quality, but I know of people who really like them.
And if this person has a psp, I'd have recommended not only FF Tactics: War of the Lions, but also FFIV: The Complete Collection, the PS1 titles that are available on the Playstation network (tho, FFVII can wait... currently). And if your friend upgrades to the Vita, she could have pretty much the complete collection of Final Fantasy for digital download (of which I can attest for) as well as wait for the FFX HD remake... and what I hope is the inevitable FFXII HD remake for the Vita.
And also Dissidia 012, the fighting game. It may reduce the protagonists roles into their bare character templates, but I find the story more than satisfying, with the obvious grain of salt to season it.
Man, does Kingdom Hearts sorta count? That's how a lot of my middle school friends got into Final Fantasy. Just so they can see more Squall or Yuffie or Cloud and be all what's up with those people.
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Speaking of Tactics, there's also spin-off games. Ivalice Alliance, for one, has not only Tactics (available for PSP and iOS and Android) and its respective sequels, but also Vagrant Story (which has achieved rave reviews). Unless, this person's not one for Tactical RPGs in general, though the story is very good.
For the Wii, there's the Crystal Chronicles series, as well as two other games of that nature on the nintendo DS. I can't say that I've played them to judge its quality, but I know of people who really like them.
And if this person has a psp, I'd have recommended not only FF Tactics: War of the Lions, but also FFIV: The Complete Collection, the PS1 titles that are available on the Playstation network (tho, FFVII can wait... currently). And if your friend upgrades to the Vita, she could have pretty much the complete collection of Final Fantasy for digital download (of which I can attest for) as well as wait for the FFX HD remake... and what I hope is the inevitable FFXII HD remake for the Vita.
And also Dissidia 012, the fighting game. It may reduce the protagonists roles into their bare character templates, but I find the story more than satisfying, with the obvious grain of salt to season it.
Man, does Kingdom Hearts sorta count? That's how a lot of my middle school friends got into Final Fantasy. Just so they can see more Squall or Yuffie or Cloud and be all what's up with those people.