The best way I can describe it is the same way I describe Mega Man VII: it’s a good game, but it’s not a good Final Fantasy.

Cosigned as well, November ‘84, and I learned Japanese to play Rudra no Hihou and other Square games that never made it here. This is just bad.

Boss Carbuncle in FFV roars at you for calling him cute.

It most certainly has not.

It’s not a more realistic version of FF7 Carbuncle, because Carbuncle wasn’t in FF7. As such, it doesn’t matter if someone wasn’t around when FF7 wasn’t initially released, because nobody has an opinion on FF7 Carbuncle prior to today.

Agreed, coming from someone nearly the same age.

Agreed. I was born in 82, Squaresoft fan, and I agree that it’s terrible. I’m also a professional artist, and as such I can attest that it’s a horrible design. Maybe it’ll be great in game, but that’s just bad the way it is.

Am I the only one that is getting tired of younger generations giving their opinion on games as if they were around when they were initially released?

Cosigned, as an August 83' baby myself.

I’ll engage.

Here it is again in Final Fantasy XIII when all of the summons were transformers coming out of a compact disc:

No kidding. This is like a Photoshop job someone new to Photoshop would do.

Fire, lots of it

To be fair, Advent Children was 15 years ago.

Uh...what? The original was not “cartoony”. It was anime.

What kind of artstyle did you expect after Advent Children?

Man, that image is bad. You can practically see where the artist made a pretty typical looking dog / fox thing with a crystal at the top of its head, and the boss was like “okay, but let’s stretch it’s head straight up in Photoshop so it’s way out of proportion without actually updating the rest of the design to make…

I thought it was common knowledge Carbuncle was a fox... no?

Uh...what? The original was not “cartoony”. It was anime. Also, the characters in the Remake are faithfully based off of their original designs. Your comment is hyperbolic in every way, at the very least

I feel like I’m the only person who thinks the art style for this game sucks. The original game had a lot of fairly cartoony elements to it that they’re not just turning into weird realistic looking characters doing cosplay and hanging out with photoshopped dogs.