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Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー) is a science fiction media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs). The eponymous first game in the series, published in 1987, was conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. The video game series has since branched into numerous other genres, and has been commercially and critically successful; it is Square Enix's best selling video game franchise, with more than 110 million units sold, and is one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.


 * Contributor(s): PresN, ProtoDrake, Sjones23 (Before 2010: Guyinblack25, Gary, Kung Fu Man, Deckiller, The Prince of Darkness, Ryu Kaze, Judgesurreal777)
 * (Previous nominations can be found at Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Final Fantasy titles)

Final Fantasy has a storied history at FTC- the original Final Fantasy titles topic was one of 5 topics tied as the second FTs ever in November 2006. Two supplementary nominations later, it was demoted in June 2008 when FT standards started to require that all articles be at least GAs (and the topic itself be internally consistent), and the topic couldn't measure up. And so it has sat for 7 years- little green pluses and bronze stars won and lost, but never getting its ducks in a row before new games came out to make the work longer. Until now!

Representing 9 years of work by 10 primary editors, the newly-renamed "Final Fantasy series" topic now includes every main numbered Final Fantasy game—one through fifteen—worked up to at least GA level, with enough stars to make it an FT. (The full, expanded Final Fantasy franchise includes nearly 100 games, and is way out of scope.) Many of the original editors have left us, but several editors, including ProtoDrake, Sjones23, and myself, have kept the articles alive since, and the older FAs have had successful FARs. The unreleased Final Fantasy XV has had a PR, and ProtoDrake has polished it to such a shine that when it is released sometime in 2016 it will be a GA shortly after. Thanks all for reviewing, and I hope we can see the pride of the old Final Fantasy WikiProject restored. -- Pres N  20:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Support. I've always been very impressed by the quality of Final Fantasy articles on Wikipedia; I'm glad to see that this milestone has been reached. This is an incredible achievement, and all editors involved should be very proud of their work. Well done. – Rhain1999  (talk to me) 23:28, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Way to go, all! I can't imagine it being an issue, but I think it'd be worth explaining why only the main numbers are used in this topic and why non-spin-off items like X-2 are not. Also wouldn't List of Final Fantasy video games be a better main article for this topic? Because shouldn't the Final Fantasy series topic include all of its summary style diversions? List of Final Fantasy media, List of Final Fantasy video games, Character design of Final Fantasy, Gameplay of Final Fantasy, Music of the Final Fantasy series, and so on? czar  14:43, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Either the series page or the list of video games works as the lead; if there's a strong preference I can change it, since the list is an FL. X-2 isn't included because none of the sequels are included, only the original main series games- no X-2, neither of the FF13 sequels, the FF4 remake or sequel, the FF5 animated sequel, the entire FF7 series expansion, the FF12 sequel, the FF14 remake... basically, even though sequels aren't spinoffs, and so would be another logical cutoff point, to add X-2 we'd need to add a lot of other articles, so instead I cut it off at just the main, numbered games. Sequels/remakes would go in subtopics, like they do in the FF12 and FF13 topics. -- Pres N  15:30, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Since two people have now mentioned it, I've changed the lead article to be List of Final Fantasy video games, as you asked. -- Pres N  03:41, 2 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Conditional support, but change the title to "Main games of the Final Fantasy series", and change the main article to "List of Final Fantasy video games". One of the main FT criteria is that they are linked by a template, and this would link them all together appropriately without cherry picking. I am curious, though, why Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is listed as part of the main series in the template, but that could just be an oversight. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 00:23, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Lead article changed, and I've changed the title to be "Main Final Fantasy series" so as to be more compact than your proposed version. The FF14:ARR inclusion was an oversight; there wasn't a "FF14" template variant to put it in (there is now). -- Pres N  03:41, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 04:21, 2 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Support - Great to see the topic return as a Featured Topic, fantastic work by User:PresN and others throughout the years. Onward and upward, further on and further in! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Support – Incredible job to all those involved in putting this topic together. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 19:37, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Closed with a consensus to promote to Featured Topic. - GamerPro64  02:48, 28 December 2015 (UTC)