Final Fantasy games are famous for their lengthy🌠 stories and intricately deep lore. These stories paved the way for most modern Japanese Role Playing Games today. The series brought to life dozens of memorable characte🌼rs as well some of gaming's most iconic creatures. From the adorable Moogle to the fearsome Bahamut, there are a plethora of notable figures in pop culture that fans can always associate with the beloved series. Of course, there's a good reason why the series has a following this big.
The꧟ series goes the extra mile when it comes to providing content for each entry. Apart from its massive main story campaign, these games also provide oodles of extra content via side quests. Although some of these side quests don't just function as mere filler content. In fact, some side quests might even be as memorable as the main games themsel🐭ves! Some side quests offer extra challenges that are even more epic than the game's finale while others offer additional bits of story content.
This extra content doesn't just serve as fun diversions, they also make up for a more amusing and quite memorable experience. Who says all Final Fantasy games have to be linear and one-dimensional when it comes to its gameplay? These unforgettable side quests definitely prove that that's not the case. Some casual players might not even know that some of these side quests were even there in the first place. Here are 25 awesome side quests that some fans might have missed in the ultra-popular Final Fantasy series.
25 Unraveling The Seven Wonders (Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII) ไ 🍷
Final Fantasy VII spin-off Crisis Core is touteꦛd for its stylish action-RPG gameplay, dazzling visuals, and narrative-heavy ca👍mpaign. However, it also has some notable side quests that can easily be missed. One of these is the mini-game called “The Seven Wonders Of Nibelheim.”
Solving mysteries means getting rewards too, of course.
After building Aerith a flow♕er cart and handling business with Sephiroth, players get a chance to speak to 🏅a boy who sends them on a quest to unravel Nibelheim's mysteries. While these strange occurrences happen to be more mundane than supernatural, the whole experience is still memorable nonetheless.
24 🌼 Memoirs Of A Moogle (Final Fantasy XII)
Final Fantasy XII has its fair share of quirky yet memorable characters. Blonde-haired moo🧸gles? Check. Bow-wielding bunny people? Definitely! Another one of these characters is a pompom-wearing Moogle named Pilika. She eventually tasks players with finding her precious diary.
It's a short but sweet side quest that gets even sweeter due to the fact that players get different re🔯wards based on whether or not they've read her diary. Those who choose to read the diary are treated to a funny cutscene indicating that one of Pilika's pets were observing them all along. Yikes!
23 Gotta Read 'Em All (Final Fantasy VIII) 🧸
Aside from playing a scarred, emotionally-detached protagonist, players also get to play an unusual role in Final Fantasy VIII. Instead of fending🌳 off armies of bad guys, players can opt to collect magazines. This side 🃏quest has players scouring every nook in cranny for hidden issues of Timber Maniacs and Occult Fan.
Fighting evil can get stale but reading stuff is timeless.
It might not be as exciting as crossing swords with bitter rivals but doing it is quite worthwhile. Magazines don't just offer extra story tidbits, they also lead to even more side🔯 quests as well as aid in acquiring more powerful allies.
22 ෴ The Spiky Fa♈mily (Final Fantasy XII)
A neat, and quite easy to miss, side quest in Final Fantasy XII involves returning a humano♛id cactus child back to its family of thorny cactoids. It's both a fun and rewarding side quest. However, it can only be unlocked once players did the “Dalmasca's Desert Bloom” mission and after they've talked to the wife of the mission petitioner.
Players get to avert disaster, help a dad avoid impending doom and earn the respect of a sentient plant family, all at the same time! Of course, the additionꦿal item reward, money, and free ferry rides are cool bonuses too.
21 🍷 The City That Neverꦫ Sleeps (Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition)
Fans who've watched the Final Fantasy XV animation Kingsglaive will undoubtedly remember seeing Insomnia city in ruins. Unfortunately, the Insomnia City Ruins map cannot be explored in the original version of the game. Only players who have the enhanced version, Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition, get to experience this seemingly large new dungeon, complete with its very🌃 own side quests.
This e🌸xpansive dungeon offers a multitude of powerful new enemie🉐s as players take them down with the help of a familiar face, the indomitable Cor Leonis himself! Great, more reasons to buy the game a second time.
20 The Happiest ♛Place On Midgard (Final Fantasy VII) 🎐
Final Fantasy VII's story is certainly a tragic one so why not try to forget all the melancholy by visiting an amusement park? The Gold Saucer serves as the𝐆 perfect remedy! This theme park has an assortment of mini-games, a new party member to recruit and of course, more side quests.
Romance or Bromance, the choice is yours.
One of these side quests involv𝔍es a date with a lucky party member of your choice. Oh, Cloud can ⛄also choose to date muscular brutes like Barret, which is quite hilarious, actually.
19 Shoot For The🥃 Stars (Final Fantasy IX)
Some side quests feature cool standalone stories but the one in Final Fantasy IX actually has a lasting impact which even affects the game's ending. During this quest, players search for rare and elusive 🎃coins representing bodies of stars known as Stellazzio. A humanoid bird named Queen Stella will reward players for each Stellazz✤io coin they turn over to her.
O꧒nce players collect all 13 coins, Queen Stella will reward them with a unique item called the Hammer. Having this item in one's inventory leads to an extra scene during the game's ending, neat!
18 🎐 Spelunking For Treasure (Final Fantasy VII)
The awesome chocobo-breeding mini-game in Final Fantasy VII leads to yet another inte🎃resting side quest. Once plಞayers acquire chocobos of varying colors, only then can they access the hidden Materia Caves. There are multiple treasure troves like these that can be found throughout the game map.
Players can find all sorts of goodies in these caves such as new magic and even the game's most powerful summoning spell. Of course, havi🌃ng a golden chocobo is a must if on🎀e hopes to reach the caves that hold the best rewards.
17 A Monster In Hiding (Fi🉐nal Fantasy IX)
Finding the secret super-boss Hades in Final Fantasy IX is no easy feat since he's quite literally hidden in a place call𓂃ed Memoria. Players would first have to walk past a waterfall and go off-screen through some rocks, all while mashing the talk button since there won't be any dialogue prompt that reveals his location. However, finding Hades is one thing, defeating him is another.
Hades is exceptionally powerful and can instantly incapacitate party members especially when they come under-leve🌸led and unprepared. Upon defeat, Hades offers players his synthesis services which make the game's best items.
16 ಌ Not Your Average Painting (Final Fantasy XV)
The photography side quests in Final Fantasy XV actually gives players a lot more incentives than the usual hunt missions or fetch quests. Vyv, the quest giver, might be hard to miss since he won't be visible the first time players enter Lestallum. Fortunately, the quest rewards players with a lot of money for doing such a si💮mple task.
However, the final part of this side quest isn't as simple as snapping a picture. Players will be investigating a cursed canvas that actually comes to life! They would have to defeat this monstrꦇosity just to take its picture, talk about extreme journalism.