MontanaHatchet on 20 February 2010
What he described isn't necessarily a bad thing. In Final Fantasy 7, you spent a good chunk of time at the beginning of the game in Midgar, which was fairly linear. In Final Fantasy 9, the game is pretty linear until the end of the first disc. However, in FF7, Midgar was only a small part of the game (it didn't even take up a big portion of the first disc), and in FF9, you could explore the world map before you even enter the Ice Cave. So while I agree with that method, the linear part of the game shouldn't take up a whole half of the game, and it doesn't get in the way of plot and character development at all (as a dozen other games in the series have shown).
I don't care though. The game stills looks awesome.
