Final Fantasy has lost its way

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Egann said:
When I looked at the trailer and the gameplay demo, I saw Dissidia. I even think I saw a couple assists. Even though we haven't seen this in a major title, I have a hard time complaining: Dissidia was awesome, and I have been wantind them to make a party-based one.

Final Fantasy has been cornered by their own reputation. I don't know how gamers started to expect Final Fantasy to be this perfect bastion of JRPG awesomeness that reinvents itself with every title when every Final Fantasy I've played had some critical faults. By the same token, I don't get how people can just hate on it the way they do: Final Fantasy is one of the most ambitious and experimental name-brands in gaming. If you want an RPG that plays it safe and does roughly the same gameplay for sequel after sequel, you should be playing a different RPG series.

That's funny. When Square originally wanted to change the formula, they created Seiken Densetsu (Final Fantasy Adventure) and Mystic Quest (SNES), as well as future Crystal Chronicles and Warriors of Light games.

You don't know what you're talking about when you're saying Final Fantasy always just changed whenever it wanted to. Sure there were fundamental gameplay mechanics that changed (Espers, Materia, Junctioning, Sphere Grid, Classes, Weapon upgrades), but not gameplay architectural differences (like changing the genre altogether).

This answers Ryuzaki and others who have no long-time knowledge of the series' history.