| arcelonious said: What I do feel the series has lost in the more recent titles is that sort of "whimsical" feel. The last few titles got more serious and melodramatic in tone, and a part of what I've enjoyed about Final Fantasy were the sillier moments, like Cloud searching for items to cross dress for Don Corneo, the hilarious Active Time Events in IX, and so on. |
The comedy of the FF series has been lacking of late... I doubt a character like Steiner would ever exist in modern games. Sad really.
I like turn based combat, with ATB FF was great. Even FFX's interpretation was good. There are many things that make FF based on tradition. XII and XIII removed a lot of tradition which I wasn't too fond of. ATB is still there at it's heart even if it was contained differently. Turn based allows for strategic gameplay there and then, XIII was too fast, XII allowed you to activate every beneficial status before a fight even happened, every previous FF game you started as a clean slate and had to work out the best way to win.
Hmm, pie.
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