Like Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness? Yeah, everyone loved that, metacritic 134 out of 100. So ignoring stuff they’ve just published, which mostly has been excellent (DX:MD, Hitman, I Am Setsuna, Nier: Automata (I hope)), what has Square Enix itself made recently that’s been great?

Eh, Squeenix is like Konami at this point - you just have to assume that any given title is going to be shit until proven otherwise. So you can’t get excited about this at all, especially when they don’t tell you the platform. Even the shittiest Chinese poison mobile F2P RPGs have purty concept art, it means nothing…

The difference is turning FF VI 3D won’t improve . It was perfect just the way it is, pushing 2D art sprite art just about as far as you can take the medium. FFVII in contrast is an ugly pile of confused coding, and a crash course in 3D animation for a first time attempt to do so on a new console. It has no aged well,…

People with extremely high thresholds for repetition. Basically the inverse of someone with A.D.H.D. Your typical player who enjoys grinding levels and XP. Think anyone who owns all the Disgaea games and has multiple dozens of level 9999 characters on every version.

I’m going to reference my profession, just once, to contextualize what I’m going to say next: I have spent the last decade as a professor of Literature (and Rhet/Comp, but whatevz).

I say that to say this: Final Fantasy XV is by turns a brilliant, revelatory, and absolutely necessary change in direction for a franchise…