I agree with Xbbjf9s on the character of 12, well all but Vaan and Penelo, their characterisation seemed off and wasn't as dominant as the others in the story telling.
That aside and 12 was a good game, a great game even, just wasn't as Final Fantasy as many people wanted. It maybe should have been called Final Fantasy Tactics *Something* but it was a great game.
13 on the other hand wasn't and it moved further away from established game mechanics that make a game an Final Fantasy game, that includes random battles.
For the future of the series I think they need to go back to a style of battling more like 5 to X-2, random battles, control of all characters in battle, good leveling system that leveled all stats like game of old, just make it slightly different in ho you use magic. Just make the Graphics and Story awesome, like we came to expect from FF games.
Hmm, pie.
