Ranking Every Final Fantasy Spin-Off Game

Much like Dissidia 012 to the original Dissidia, 2014’s Theatrhythm: Curtain Call felt like an ‘ultimate version’ of its predecessor, building on what was already solid gameplay and more than trebling the number of included songs to 221, including every single one from the original (bar Somnus from XV, bizarrely) and many new ones from games that never seem to get any love in compilation games like this or Dissidia, such as Tactics, Crystal Chronicles and even the much-maligned Mystic Quest.

A hundred additional DLC tracks also included compositions from Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Vagrant Story to create a comprehensive compilation of Square Enix’s greatest hits.

Throw in more than sixty characters, with every main series game represented by at least three individuals, and a two-player mode and you had a game that could be picked up time and time again to enjoy some of Nobuo Uematsu and company’s greatest works, with hardly any glaring omissions.

There have been two further Theatrhythm games, one focused around Square Enix’s other signature franchise, Dragon Quest, and one title released exclusively in Japanese arcades. Hopes for a handheld Final Fantasy trilogy are minimal given that the 3DS is now all but dead as a system, but one can hold out ridiculously optimistic hope that there will one day be somewhere other than this author’s iTunes library that attempts to host every single Final Fantasy track ever composed in one central location.