Drinking Game / Final Fantasy

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 (though the general rules still apply to them):

• 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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General/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.
• Start chugging^note Please don't do this with booze. We need you alive. 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 shot for every enemy defeated or party member killed.
• Take three, four, or five shots (depending on how many max party members in-battle 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 (Emerald WEAPON is an optional case of this, since it requires Materia to fall to one).
• 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.
• 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 A Fan Nickname for the doors in dungeons that lead to tiny dead end rooms with nothing in them except a huge encounter rate.
• 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.

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 (I.E. Rydia saying "Leave me alone! I HATE YOU!!").
• 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 you master a job class.
• 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.

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

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.