SE is doing this to themselves, they were good in the SNES era, that was like silver age, but the damn PS1 era was straight gold. FF7 was a monster and they hit the ground running after that. THey were not afraid to take risks, they were making all kinds of crazy shit. horror/RPG hybrids, wacky action RPGs, hell they even tried fighting games. That company is gone the sad thing is is that they can be like that again. World Ends With You IMHO is not only the best DS game, but the best RPG this gen. It craps all over most console JRPGS in every category. Long development times hurt too, but the worst is when you have a long one and at the end of the day the game still turns out to be a "WTF???", looking at you FF13. KH BBS was in development for a while too and that game turned out great. I used to gobble up JRPGs like a fiend and it pains me to admit that Fallout 3 only has, for me at least, trumped any JRPG ive played on consoles







