Why does Japan prefer IV while the west likes VI much better?

Why does Japan prefer IV while the west likes VI much better?

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IV is hot trash. Trash story, trash battle system, trash characters; only good music. IV was revolutionary but people that think is genuinely one of the best RPGs are delusional.

They also prefer DQ IV to V

Pretty much this. I can see how IV was a great evolutionary step forward for the series, in a way it feels like the game that actually solidified the formula for later FF games, but god damn how much V and VI improved on it. I can still replay V again and again with its awesome job system that is a perfect foundation for challenges and I still can enjoy the great plot of VI, but IV is just kind of clumsy in both gameplay (annoying dungeons to the max, no meaningful character customization) and story (might have been 10/10 for its time, but it’s just unintendedly silly in comparison to better JRPG stories). I don’t hate it or anything, but it would seem ridiculous to say that it’s the best in the series.

V didn't improve shit. IV is a better game.

There’s a reason why V is the Final Fantasy with the most active challenge run scene, no other game in the series offers such a good basis for class-limited challenge runs that can be hard yet still beatable. Sure, the story is just as janky as it was in IV, but there’s no comparison in regards of actual gameplay.

That's weird since 5 is the best final fantasy game in the entire franchise

Both IV and VI are inferior to V.

Didn't even got a remake for the DS.

VII was the best, you can fight me on this, but you already lost

Both are pretty much equally shit so pick your poison.

As if that's any measure of quality lol

Nothing to remake, they got it right the first time.

>They also prefer IV to V
Why? I'm curious

From 8/16-bit era, III and V are clearly superior in terms of gameplay and party building. IV and VI are better than the rest in terms of plot story but are still mediocre in that regard, and even worse gameplay-wise.

Absolute dogshit opinion desu

Let's just all agree that IV-VI was the peak for the series.

I don't like materia as much as espers and I don't like materia as much as the job system and I don't like materia as much 8s fucked up system. On a fundamental level I cannot enjoy 7 more than 5, 6, and 8 because of the weak ass materia system. Might've been cool if you could pair more materia together.

I prefer IV but maybe it's just because it was my first FF game. I like the story and characters more, even if I acknowledge that it's not quite as creative. Felt far more like an actual drama.

>V is good because discord trannies play it
It's a decent game but challenge runs don't fix it being boring outside of the meme translations

Japan seems to be more into more traditional JRPG themes, destined heroes, swords and magic and shit, light, ancient evil, medieval stuff, all that. VI leans more into the sci-fi techno-fantasy thing that a lot of the more modern FF games go for.

This is true, western fantasy is exotic in japan because they're not western.

Both are overrated