| Onimusha12 said: Final Fantasy Fans? You mean the typical 11-19 year old anime fan gamers on forums who chronically choose the angriest pictures they can find of either Sephiroth, Dragonball Z, Naruto or Avatar: The Last Airbender characters for their icons? Now, I'm not saying that to try and insult anyone, but you do realize Kingdom Hearts epitomizes everything that has become Final Fantasy's "Bubble Gum Soda Pop High School Musical meets Hot Topic" appeal since Hironobu Sakaguchi (The Miyamoto of Final Fantasy) left Square and FFX became the new standard of "excellence". Kingdom Hearts is practically Square's Magnum Opus in the eyes of any gamer who honestly still thinks there is any value to what Final Fantasy has become. The only Final Fantasy fans who would be immune to Kingdom Hearts appeal are maybe the older elitists who buy into Final Fantasy's current direction purely for its pretentious and gaudy presentation (you know the people that can't get enough of the FF7 meets Metal Gear Solid imagery of FF13) or those who think the golden days of Final Fantasy never left and its just as good as its always been. I'm seriously not trying to insult anyone here but wake up and see the Final Fantasy animal for what it is. This is not high art we're talking about here. |
Wow, way to make a complete ass out of yourself by trying to paint an audience of 5-10 million people into simple stereotypes. Also, the reason Square needed to sell part of its stock to Sony and merge with Enix is because Spirits Within cost them 100 million dollars, and Square isn't big enough to swallow that big of a loss. A big reason for that is because of Sakaguchi wanting to do it all without motion capture and ran up the budget to a number that they would have a tough time recouping, and because of it Sakaguchi left the company. I don't know why Uematsu left, or ever heard of the other guy as I have never played the tactics games. One last thing, Spirits Within released July 11, 2001 in the US, FFX released before that, so Sakaguchi didn't leave during the making of FFX, he left after it was done.
