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A203D on 25 August 2010
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AkibaFan said:
A203D said:

Sadly i've havent played the Ogre Battle Saga (yet). i've finished Vagrant Story and i think i know what you mean. i did like the story a lot, but it sometimes felt like vital peices were missing, elements were not integrated properly into the plot - like the jugdes. personally i think thats because Vaan and Penelo got in the way of the story he wouldve told, i think the cast wouldve also been fleshed out a bit more. (what that game couldve been had he not have left!!!)

anyway the whole point i've been trying to make this whole time is that primarily Kitase is to blame for the series at the moment. which is why a lot of fans are unhappy with. i dont think the FF13 developers understand that cutscenes dont make a game, its the game that makes the cutscenes. but your right i too think that Matsuno is one of 3 (Ito and Sakaguchi being the other to) who can take FF into the future, where other franchises like Mass Effect, and Assassin's Creed are heading!!

u keep blaming kitase when he directed the fan favrite ff6 and ff7.

bt also directed th hated ff8.

I think its primarily Kitase who is to blame for FF13, he took over from Sakaguchi after he left. i think FF6 and FF7 are incredible games. but FF6 was also co-directed by HIroyuki Ito, who also directed FF9. and Sakaguchi also had a lot to do with FF7. Kitase's credits also includes games like Dirge of Cerberus. I'm not sure if this is true, but i've also heard that Kitase is a film graduate; imo this explains a lot about why he uses so many long and melodramatic cutscenes in his games, because hes not designing them from a gameplay perspective.

if you look at FF8 when Kitase and Nomura had more control, and Nojima scripted the game. the script of FF8 is based more around melodrama. FF8 is hated because of the junction system, which i think is fantastic, (the saving grace of the game imo). but i really dont like Squall or Rinoa, they're just too over the top with their teen romanace. i prefer more mature, subtle romance (or lust), like Kain's desire for Rosa, or Fran and Balthier. FF8 script is in your face with the over-theatrical drama, as is FF13, which is why i dont like the direction the developers have taken FF13.

Edit: also it was Kitase who chose to use Leonia Lewis for the theme song to improve the internation appeal. and Kitase said that FF13 was inspired by Call of Duty. imo these are awful directoral choices and the series has gone in the wrong direction as a consequence.