Has Square killed the Final Fantasy franchise??

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Aiddon said:

the series died after Matsuno left 12's development halfway through and the final nail in the coffin was
Sakaguchi personally condemning the series. However, Square played Frankenstein with the series and now it's stumbling along with no rhyme or reason, now in the hands of a bunch of hand-handed people with no idea of story-telling, character, or gameplay design. Toriyama and Kitase HAVE TO GO. Or at the very least just euthanize the series and let it die with SOME dignity properly.

I agree somewhat with what you've said, i think the respective games Toriyama and Kitase have developed speaks for themselves, they've never reached success without the Final Fantasy name, even then some of those game are very poor; where as Matsunos' games have achieved critical acclaim without the FF brand.

however its time to leave that behind my friend, FF12 was what it was because Matsuno walked away, and we have to deal with what Sqaure have turned the series into with FF13. however i think Wada has said to Kitase that there must be a new release every 2 years, so for this reason i think that team will be doing FF15....

i was under the impression that Matsuno will make more games with SE after Tactics Ogre, whether or not he will be reinstated to FF is not out of the question imo. and theres a chance that if Sakaguchi finds new success with the Last Story he will be approached for some input into FF15.