Vagrant Story isn't a Final Fantasy though. It doesn''t pass the ultimate "Is this a Final Fantasy?" test: it doesn't have Final Fantasy in the title.
Vagrant Story also, more significantly, has nothing in common with Final Fantasy - the magic and monsters have different names, the gameplay is structured very differently, the tone and themes of the story are unlike any seen in any actual Final Fantasy, and the setting is different in any conceivable manner. If the game wasn't produced by Square staff that had worked on some Final Fantasy titles before, nobody would even think to draw any connection between it and Final Fantasy; it has more in common with Dark Soul (of which is likely one of the inspirations) than it does with any Final Fantasy title, even the more modern ones.
To get this slightly back on track, Rebirth has characters refer to riding on a chocobo as riding "on chocoback," and as silly as that it is it never fails to make me smile.
To make matters worse it even takes place in the same setting as a previous Final Fantasy game^^
Does it? Because, within the text of the game itself, I was unable to find any proof of this. Now, the developers might have said otherwise, but George Lucas also said that he had a whole trilogy planned before he wrote Star Wars after the film was a massive success, despite that being untrue, so I am not inclined to trust developers comments over what is in the actual game being discussed.
This might be me getting some stuff confused and misremembering some things.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is acting despite that fear.
