The Great Final Fantasy Ranking!

Hello Adventurers! Wait, is that how it goes for this? Does it even matter? Who knows! So this episode, theoretically a "bonus" episode, is actually a product of two years worth of work. In 2024, over the course of two different panels at MomoCon and KamiCon HAI (RIP), we had panels where we attempted to rank all the mainline Final Fantasies (plus two bonus games). As we had different people on each panel, we of course had two different rankings!  What was a podcast to do? Well, all six of us got together to record One Final (Fantasy) Podcast to determine the final ranking. This is that episode! 

PS You may notice that we have not indicated if this is an OSMcast! or a Carbuncle Chronicle episode. That's because it's both! Almost all of the OSMcast! side, and all of The Carbuncle Chronicle side are in this, AND it covers Final Fantasy XIV to boot, so it made sense to just call it an episode for both.  

OSMnotes

Whoo boy! This was a real pain to edit! But Basil also got real extra with the audio and music for the episode this time, so we hope you enjoy the half a year he took at poking and prodding this thing into Listenable Audio™. Anyroad, have some Time Cues:

• We start the OSMcast!ing – 00:00
• General Gabbing (Introductions and explaining The Process) – 02:04
• The Great Final Fantasy Ranking!
  • Part I: Where we talk about all the Final Fantasies
    • Final Fantasy I - 04:44
    • Final Fantasy II - 10:36
    • Final Fantasy III - 17:06
    • Final Fantasy IV - 21:45
    • Final Fantasy V - 32:13
    • Final Fantasy VI - 35:37
    • Final Fantasy VII - 41:41
    • Final Fantasy VIII - 49:56
    • Final Fantasy IX - 53:49
    • Final Fantasy X - 58:24
    • Bonus Game: Final Fantasy Tactics - 01:05:00
    • Final Fantasy XI - 01:09:05
    • Final Fantasy XII - 01:11:48
    • Bonus Game: Lost Odyssey - 01:15:58
    • Final Fantasy XIII - 01:21:18
    • Final Fantasy XIV - 01:27:30
    • Final Fantasy XV - 01:34:24
    • Final Fantasy XVI - 1:38:10
  • Part II: Where we actually rank said Final Fantasies
    • The Battle Begins - 01:41:39
    • The Battle Ends - 02:03:09

Oh! And if you want to see them all in one handy dandy graphic once we were finished, here it is (but warning it's a long long image):

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