Square-Enix: "It's..natural to grow out of Final Fantasy."

[The Ghost of RubangB]

pearljammer said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Yeah FFIV starts with you murdering the innocent and burning down their village. The game is about guilt, repentance, forgiveness, and redemption.

You save the world, but only after watching so many people sacrifice so much while you were murdering and pillaging for your kingdom. Then you realize there is a greater cause.

This is some serious Messianic stuff.

The fact that they can sneak in romance and a potential apocalypse is just proof that they used to really care about plot and character development, and making them both work together. Newer games seem to focus on one or the other.

I think that's why FFIV is considered one of the best.

I really wish FFIV: The After Years were a game that focused on Cecil and Kain's Red Wings years. That'd be much more interesting! As it is now, I can't seem to get excited about it.

Yeah I'm only a little excited.  A prequel like that would be way more interesting.

 

@Kasz, I feel the same way about 6 and 4.  I think 4 would work really well as a book, and I think 6 would work really well as a movie.  6 has 3 great acts with great turning points that could work as 3 different movies in an amazing trilogy.  (I used to name all the characters after the actors who I thought could play them.)