What's on your mind?

[Samven]

Wow someone really doesn't like Final Fantasy.

I know, I know. I'm awful for it. But yeah, this series has always sort of driven me up the wall. I find a lot of the characters superfluous, most of the villains very samey and repetitive (how many times do we have to keep recycling the "I want to kill everyone and/or become a god in the process" motivation?), the writing melodramatic to the point of weeping hilarity, the ATB painfully slow, and - most of all - the way in which Squeenix keeps reinventing the wheel when it comes to levelling up just drives me to madness.

... Which may be why everyone keeps recommending IX to me, as they tell me it's the antithesis of everything I can't stand about Squeenix. But time will tell.

I'm also gonna say that I think that the Enix part of Squeenix gets WAY too much flak these days. People are always accusing the merger of "ruining" Squaresoft but, actually, the majority of the Squeenix workforce is focused on properties that came from the Square side of things. So, it seems to me that the problem is most likely to do with a bloated chain of command that constantly wastes the time of its workers with prettying up graphics and countless side projects as opposed to Enix deliberately ruining everything.

So, yeah, anyway, we'll see how IX goes. I'll let everyone know what I think after I've gotten ahold of a copy.