Agreed. He is not Nobuo Uematsu, and that’s a good thing. I think Soken is exactly what the Final Fantasy franchise needs now. I will always love when Nobuo comes in to compose a theme here or there to shoot an arrow straight into my heart, but Soken is just a driving fire of inspiration and energy now. I love it! 

Yup. I played for 5 hours straight and when I was done, everything felt fine. But when I moved down stairs, it felt strange to actually be lifting my legs up and down. I was expecting to just glide down the stairs with no effort. Looking at regular items on my counters, I was weirded out that the item I was focusing…

Yes please answer this Nathan! I’ve played games where dodging is important, and smooth sliding solves a lot of the frustration I had with teleportation. 

Okay, this is gonna date me real hard - but Medievia. It was a telnet Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), a text based RPG, that was my first MMORPG experience before MMORPG’s existed. It was down and dirty - to get started you usually ended up doing mundane quests like picking up a caravan and driving it to the next town,…