What is the meaning of the title of Final Fantasy?

It has no real meaning. It’s just a catchy title, nothing more.

According to Hironobu Sakaguchi, who created the series, “the name ‘Final Fantasy’ was a display of my feeling that if this didn’t sell, I was going to quit the games industry and go back to university. I’d have had to repeat a year, so I wouldn’t have had any friends—it really was a ‘final’ situation.” Nobuo Uematsu, who composed most of the music for the series, has said that the name also came from the fear that Square would go bankrupt if the game wasn’t successful.

That said, the game was always intended to have the initials “FF,” and one of the words being “fantasy” was more or less inevitable. Fears about the future is what influenced the choice of “final” as the other word.

They chose that name, because they thought that it would be the last game they would ever make.

I assume it means words are meaningless, since there are so freakin’ many of them. “Final” Fantasy VIII? What are they up to now?

@Zaku

I think the series must have at least a couple dozen by this point.