| Lyrikalstylez said: I hope they would get rid of the anime inspired character designs and replace it with more westernized characters Can't take playing as emo cry baby teens with spikey hair anymore. |
Eh, I can see what you're getting at, but I think it's more because the writers and designers are lazy with their characters, not because they're drawing from a particular source. In Final Fantasy's case I think Westernizing it too much a very, VERY bad idea. Final Fantasy pulls the bulk of its sales outside of Japan, where it has a JRPG reputation. Making a Western RPG out of it will undermine it's market placement because it will be competing with WRPGs like Dragon Age AS another WRPG on their home turf.
That's a losing battle, I guarantee you.
Besides, there are a dozen animes I can think of off the top of my head which I would LOVE for Final Fantasy to shamelessly steal from when designing the next title. Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Sword Art Online. The problem isn't that anime-inspired is bad, but that anime-inspired has turned out to be lazy.
