Is Final Fantasy too ambitious for its own good ?

[zorg1000]

I haven't played much of Final Fantasy but it seems like the series has gone so far away from where it started that its barely even the same series anymore.

if u took someone from the 80s/90s that played the NES/SNES installments and showed them the recent games like FF13/FF15, they likely wouldn't even recognize it was the same series.

These same people would probably recognize Final Fantasy Explorers, which looks like more of the classic style of the series just not turn-based, a