Final Fantasy 12 & 13 and the Future of the Series!!!

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Aiddon said:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Matsuno NEVER intended to shove Vaan and Penelo in there as they seem grossly out of place. Hell, even Ashe seems awkwardly inserted into the narrative while Basch, Balthier, and Fran fit and they get so little screen time that I can't really remember anything about them. I mostly blame that on the half of the team that came from the PlayOnline section (y'know, that ones that nearly made Matsuno lose his mind).

But, yeah, the current FF team doesn't know what to do anymore. XIII was really just an attempt to copy some stuff from VII (Female Cloud, Black Guy, etc, etc) and it utterly failed. The current team HAS to go, damn near all of them. Kitase and Toriyama have to hand this series to a new team that has radically different ideas without "Westernizing" things necesarilly.

I totally agree with you, i'm not sure what happened with the PlayOnline team, i assume their the ones who were having problems with Matsuno. but either way, i agree that Kitase's production team have failed. imo i think even if they handed the torch to newer developers, they still wouldnt come close to what Matsuno could produce. (oh and the current production team will not go imo, i think we're stuck with more of their melodrama).