Final Fantasy VII Remake Angry Joe Review!

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The Fury said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Two things changed.  1) Sakaguchi left (the FF creator), and 2) Squaresoft became Square-Enix.  I believe development on FF X started before either of these things happened which is why it is such a good game.  The games haven't been the same since.  I even like, to varying degrees, some of the FF games that came later, but they definitely aren't the same, and there is no going back.  All I can say is that I haven't played the Lost Odyssey yet, so I still have that to look forward to, but after that I won't be seeing the old FF magic anymore.

Both true, and luckily, even though I would say FF12 isn't as FF as other titles, it's still a superb game as it was made by the Ivalice team (who don't exist anymore sadly). The merge was the start of things going down hill, I have always known that but I do find it strange that they aren't trying to look at why 6-10 heyday was so good and not looking to that to get their influences to create the next generation of the FF games. Looking at FF7"Remake" combat, they looked at more modern FF games and other series instead, things like button mashing and stagger made it into a remake of a game that had none of that. These were things people liked from previous entries? Really?

I think they need a FF game to really tank in sales in order to get a wake up call.  My favorite series have always been Zelda and FF.  The best thing to happen to Zelda was actually Skyward Sword, because the sales of it were so disappointing.  It was a serious wake up call to Nintendo.  "Hey we are losing one of our key series here."  The result was Breath of the Wild.

While long time fans of FF can tell the series has seriously gotten off track, it is still selling well enough that Square-Enix thinks the games are just fine.  They really need FF16 to be a total flop.  They need a wake up call to tell them to get back to their roots.  Until that happens, they are just going to continue on this same track and not correct themselves.