The hate for SE is unfounded imo. Most of it comes from its FF franchise and spin-offs, all the other RPGs they make are never mentioned when its bashing-time. SE does rely on its blockbuster to make big cash just like every other publisher out there ( isn´t that logical?) and usually have their best teams working on them, but they do publish/develop lots of other games as well and some of them end up very good because a good developer worked on them or a good SE team made it.
I don´t know if Sakaguchi took all the lead for Spirits Within, though he was the producer so he must have, but I never enjoyed the FFs where he had most actual input.
Honestly, how can a developer/publisher be called "RPG king"? There are so many these days and in the whole wide world. And don´t say its quality, because it´s only an opinion and even if you take the average review score all FFs have a 9/10 and over.
Atlus and Nippon Ichi thinking out of the box? Lol, that´s silly. How many SMT has Atlus made so far? Hell a lot and it´s actually as old as the snes times. As far as Nippon Ichi is concerned, I´m not even willing to hear about their game. I´ll just say each and every single one of their games is about demons, angels, netherworlds and use exactly the same gameplay -> utterly boring.







