Japanese pretty boys are here to stay. Get the fuck over it.

If anything, the obsession with visual fidelity has been detrimental to FF from a gameplay and story perspective. FFVIIR’s visuals and combat might LOOK interesting, but the further you get into it the more the flaws pop up. Putting that much on display just led to the story going weird places (not helped by Nomura…

Pretty much; I broke the mentality of hoarding them and just got used to using them as projectiles

Those were around decades before Naruto. Look up Futaro Yamada

Behold: Cutie Impa!

Meanwhile Dems like Dick Durbin are already folding like cheap paper and whining about how we need to get over there being a vote. The political advice of hacks like James Carvill was nothing more than patronizing poison

Maybe he’ll get one Buster that’s him going “ORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!”

It wasn’t; Matsuno himself confirmed that Valendia and Ivalice are NOT in the same universe. The FFT references were just easter eggs

Not even just the character designs, but the overall mood and tone.

That’s what happens when you force a character in halfway through development. And they wonder why Matsuno said “Fuck all y’all, I’m out!”

Not getting that vibe, to be honest. If anything this is what it’s aping: Vagrant Story. Right down to an older protagonist (for Square Enix at least) who has only been seen alone. Two of the characters even seem to be modeled after Vagrant Story characters. Joshua seems to be an homage to Joshua Bardorba while the…

Sherlock Holmes’ entire motivation in the original stories was that he solved crimes because he hated being. It’s why when he had nothing to do he’d snort coke.

-Looks at Sherlock Holmes-

Zenos is the best villain the franchise has had since Sephiroth himself. Mostly because he’s like if Sephiroth had a manic-depressive younger brother

Uh yeah, I said that

Yes

Rise looks cool (hunting dog!) but Stories 2 came outta nowhere! Good to see they’re continuing with that.

1) Only extremely rarely 2) not the fucking point. FF has never been big on the whole swords and sorcery tradition. They didn’t take long to ramp up the robots, steampunk, and sci-fi elements. The series was always more about trying out new things and, if anything, pushing what the term “fantasy” actually meant. The…

That’s all salad-dressing; when it came to the actual CORE story themes and concepts, the series became stale. It’s why XIV was such a shot in the arm because it did something different in terms of narrative.

No, it’s because they’re BAD. I-VII all tried new things, new terminology, new worlds, exploring new themes and dealing with new sorts of characters and storylines.