Did the Xbox 360 indirectly damage the Final Fantasy brand?

[NightDragon83]

RolStoppable said:

NightDragon83 said:

RolStoppable said:

Final Fantasy is the new Sonic. The one big name you heavily criticize to have something to point to as an example that not every big name brand automatically gets high scores. Therefore, the entire review system is credible.

Except the Sonic franchise was considered a trainwreck for the better part of a decade, while the FF series has only recently fallen off its perch with the releases of FFXIII and XIV.  FFXII-2 appears to correct alot of mistakes that its predecessor made... I think it just gets a lower score because it's a sequel instead of its own full-fledged installment, and direct sequels like X-2 tend to get extra flack just for being sequels in a franchise where every games is supposed to be its own self-contained story and such.

Or perhaps FF XIII-2 got lower scores, because a lot of reviewers felt that they had to compensate for their too high FF XIII scores.

gamrReview being one of the prime examples.

Ahhh, of course... the old "punish the good game for overhyping the bad game" routine!