definitely not mistwalker... While I do agree square was better before the merger... I don't like mistwalker. Plus at most they've only co-developed games.
they're only good-great game imo was lost odyssey, and still SE has released a couple games a lot better than that TWEWY, Birth By Sleep, Dragon Quest IX, come to mind, not to mention some eidos games which are great. Blue Dragon was about as generic as possible. The Last Story was okay, but felt combat wise like a crappy kingdom hearts (which I'm not that fond of).
Mistwalkers best game Lost Odyssey was co-developed by FeelPlus, which was essentially the people that made the 3 shadow hearts, and is a lot worse than 2 of those games.
If I were to pick a different JRPG studio to develop square games, I'd personally pick Atlus, Monolith, Level 5 (which they do), and tri-ace (which they always have done Star Ocean).
If square gets beaten out, because other companies make better games that's great. It means we have other great games. It doesn't make square's past games or my memories of their games any less great.







