{"id":33796,"date":"2023-03-20T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/why-werent-the-real-final-fantasy-2-3-and-5-released-outside-of-japan\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T19:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:07:04","slug":"why-werent-the-real-final-fantasy-2-3-and-5-released-outside-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/features\/why-werent-the-real-final-fantasy-2-3-and-5-released-outside-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Weren&#8217;t the Real Final Fantasy 2, 3, and 5 Released Outside of Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/why-werent-the-real-final-fantasy-2-3-and-5-released-outside-of-japan_6418aed87ebfe-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/why-werent-the-real-final-fantasy-2-3-and-5-released-outside-of-japan_6418aed87ebfe-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/why-werent-the-real-final-fantasy-2-3-and-5-released-outside-of-japan_6418aed87ebfe-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These days, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/final-fantasy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Final Fantasy<\/a><\/em><\/strong> fans are spoiled for choice. Virtually every entry in the mainline series, as well as the spinoffs, are readily available worldwide, both physically and digitally. If you live in North America or Europe and want to play <strong><em>Final Fantasy 1 <\/em><\/strong>through <strong><em>15<\/em><\/strong> in chronological order, you\u2019re now able to do just that. However, some gamers remember when this wasn\u2019t the case at all. In the early days of <strong><em>Final Fantasy<\/em><\/strong>, Square released certain mainline entries exclusively in Japan, which meant the rest of the world had to wait years to get their hands on these games. The situation also meant that Square released certain numerical installments <em>out of order<\/em> in other regions, which made the franchise even more confusing to follow for players outside Japan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/games\/why-werent-the-real-final-fantasy-2-3-and-5-released-outside-of-japan\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, Final Fantasy fans are spoiled for choice. Virtually every entry in the mainline series, as well as the spinoffs, are readily available worldwide, both physically and digitally. If you live in North America or Europe and want to play Final Fantasy 1 through 15 in chronological order, you\u2019re now able to do just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33799,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33796\/revisions\/33799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}