Could Final Fantasy, being so beer-chuggingly popular, have enough elements to make a drinking game out of? Well yes. Be wary, because depending on the game, some of these will definitely kill you.
Games with their own drinking game pages (franchise-wide rules still apply to them, however):
- Final Fantasy VI
- Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy XII
- Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy
NOTE: Enemy, attack, character, and class/job names may vary from game to game and (in the case of remakes/translations) version to version.
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Franchise-Wide
- Take a sip if a party member levels up.
- Take a shot if you encounter one of the following:
- A Cactuar.
- Take another shot if it uses 1,000 Needles.
- Down the whole drink if it uses 10^x Needles, where x is >= 4.
- A Malboro.
- Down the whole drink if it uses Bad Breath.
- A Tonberry.
- Take a sip for every step it takes.
- Take two shots if it kills a party member with Chef's Knife.
- In games where Chef's Knife does not instantly kill, take a single shot when you're hit by it.
- Take a shot if it uses Karma.
- A Behemoth or any Behemoth variant.
- Any type of Bomb.
- Take a shot if it uses Self-Destruct.
- An Adamantoise or any Adamantoise variant.
- A Cactuar.
- Start chuggingnote if you or the enemy does an attack with an extremely long animation, and don't stop until the animation ends. Alternatively, use the animation time to take a bathroom break, because you're probably holding in a lot from all the alcohol you've been downing.
- Take a drink for every enemy defeated or party member killed.
- Take a number of shots equal to the amount of party members a game has if all of your party members end up dying. Don't do this when fighting Superbosses, because that will probably end in alcohol poisoning.
- Down the whole drink if an enemy's attack causes a Total Party Kill. Again, don't do this if you're fighting superbosses.
- Take two shots when you decide to fight a game's respective superboss(es) on purpose.
- Toast if you beat the superboss(es) you decided to face.
- Take a shot every time any character is afflicted with a buff or status ailment. If multiple characters are afflicted, take one for each character. If characters are afflicted with multiple ailments, finish your drink.
- Take a shot for every enemy encounter you get when trying to walk to an item or location visible on screen.
- Take a shot every time you use a Phoenix Down or any Life spell.
- Take a drink when you start riding a Chocobo.
- In games with a Fat Chocobo, take a shot when you make one appear.
- Take a shot each time you or an enemy does 9999 damage or above.
- Suicide Mode: If any multi-hit attack does 9999 damage or above per hit, take a shot with each hit.
- Take a shot every time you meet/see a character named Cid, then prepare a second shot glass. Take that second shot when he's shown captaining an airship.
Final Fantasy I
- Take a shot if Astos uses Death on a party member.
- Take a shot if you encounter some Dark Wizards.
- Drink to forget if you die to the Evil Eye in the Ice Cave.
- If you grind via the Peninsula of Power, take four shots.
- Take a victory drink if your party gets class upgrades.
- If Lich uses Flare when you fight him the 2nd time, take three shots.
- Take a shot if you encounter the Warmech in the Floating Castle when you weren't intending to fight it.
- Drink to forget if it obliterates your team.
- If you manage to get out of the fight alive, or defeat it, finish your drink.
- Take four shots if you encounter a Piscodemon.
- Take two more if they proceed to destroy you.
- If you have a Monk/Master in your party, take a victory drink if they one-shot Chaos.
- In the remakes, take a drink every time you hear a new battle theme.
Final Fantasy II
- Take a shot every time a character other than Leon joins your party.
- Take a shot every time you enter a so-called "ambush closet".note
- Take a shot if you get the Blood Sword.
- Take two shots in sorrow if an ally dies during the story.
- If fighting the Lamia Queen, take a shot if she puts a party member to sleep via a mere physical attack.
- Down the whole drink if all your party members are put to sleep. Take four more shots if she then proceeds to destroy you.
- Take three shots if she casts Blink XVI or Charm IX.
- Take a shot if you encounter the Iron Giant in Pandemonium.
- Drink to forget if it wipes the floor with your party.
- Drink whenever you grind your party's stats by attacking themselves.
Soul of Rebirth
- Take a shot when you encounter a character who died in the main story.
Final Fantasy III
- Take a drink when the Warriors of Light talk (NES/Famicom and Pixel Remaster versions only).
- Take a shot when someone decides to accompany you (Sara, Cid, Desch, etc.).
- Take three shots if an upcoming boss is weak to a certain job, but you need to grind with said job in order to use it against said boss (I.E. having to grind with Dragoons in order to beat Garuda).
- Take a shot every time you get a new set of jobs.
Final Fantasy IV
- Take a drink every time Cecil thinks about his actions as a Dark Knight.
- Take a shot when Edward runs away from a battle.
- Speaking of Edward, take a shot when Tellah says "You spoony bard!"
- When Rydia summons Titan and sends you underground in the first encounter with her, take two shots.
- Take a shot when you get a new eidolon.
- Three if it's Odin, Leviathan, or Bahamut.
- If a citizen of Mysidia does something detrimental to you as an act of revenge, take a shot.
- If playing the 3D versions (DS, PC, mobile), take a shot when someone yells and it catches you off guard.
- Take a shot if Kain does something stupid or evil.
- Two if he wasn't mind-controlled by Golbez at that point.
- If facing the Demon Wall, down the whole drink if you run out of time.
- Toast when Rydia does her Big Damn Heroes moment against Golbez.
- Take four shots when Zeromus uses Big Bang.
- In the 3D versions, take a shot each time Zeromus counters Rydia's summons with Osmose. Same goes with when he uses Flare to counter black or white magic.
- Take a shot when a party member sacrifices themselves.
- If it's later revealed they survived, take another shot.
Final Fantasy V
- Take a drink when Faris is revealed to be a woman.
- Toast if one of your party members masters a job.
- Take a shot every time Gilgamesh appears.
- Take another when he flees.
- Take a shot every time the Void is mentioned.
- Down the bottle if you fail to avoid Omega if you try to get past it without triggering the battle.
- Take two shots when Shinryu attacks you.
- Down the whole drink when Galuf dies and Krile takes his place, which then turns the party into Bartz' harem.
- Suicide Mode: If playing the Final Fantasy Anthology (English PS1) version, take a shot every time the "Blind Idiot" Translation rears its ugly head.
Final Fantasy XV
- Take a shot in disappointment every time "IMPERIALS ABOVE US!" is uttered and Imperial airships indeed drop soldiers.
- Take a shot every time Ignis says that he came up with a new recipe.
Final Fantasy XVI
- Take a shot if Clive either…
- …shouts Joshua’s name.
- …mentions doing his duty.
- …has a headache.
- Suicide Mode: Take a shot when an F-bomb is dropped. You’ll probably be hospitalized before the prologue even ends.
Stranger of Paradise
- Take a shot when a flashback is shown.
- Take a shot when Jack "skips" a long-winded speech or Evil Gloating.
- Take a shot when the party members bump their fists.
- Take two shots if Jack does it with Astos.
- Down the whole bottle when Jack is left all alone while reaching out for a fist bump.
- Take two shots when an F-bomb is dropped.
- Suicide Mode: Take a shot every time someone says "Chaos". This will destroy your liver in the first several hours of the game.
Spinoffs (Tactics, Dissidia, etc.)
Dissidia (original and 012)
- Take a shot if someone uses their EX Burst.
- Two if it K.O.s you.
Dissidia NT
- Take a shot if someone summons.
- Two if the summoning quote is a Mythology Gag to the original games (e.g. Tidus' "Show them how hard it is to dodge lightning!").
MMORPGs (FFXI and FFXIV)
- Take a shot if someone berates you for your job choice. Two shots if they type a variation of "loldrg".
Final Fantasy XIV
- Take a drink if, when you queue into Duty Roulette...
- ...you queue into Main Scenario. Maybe grab some popcorn for the cutscenes, too.
- ...you're partied up with someone without a job crystal. Double up if the duty is over level 30, the level you should have one by now.
- ...DPS is the Role in Need for it.
- ...Alliance Raid roulette puts you into any of the Crystal Tower raids.
- Take a shot when a Red Mage uses the Limit Break. Two shots if there was a Melee DPS that could have used it.
