Posted on 07/17/2013 at 01:37 PM
| Filed Under Blogs
Haha, yeah, sometimes the belts and zippers are a bit tiresome, but like I said, my earliest gaming memories were with Kingdom Hearts, which is like the great grandaddy of outlandish character design. I sort of have like an immune system built up for it, and I don't really find it that ridiculous anymore. At least he isn't part of the team working on FF14, which is actually shaping up to be very good.The classics are great and all, and some of them rank on my all time favorites list, but I mean, times change. I don't think that it is likely that SQ will return to the style of older games.
But I digress, I love Square Enix to death, but sometimes I just get tired of them trying to be what they aren't. Square Enix is a JAPANESE company, but they are trying to appeal to WESTERN gamers, when the truth is, most western gamers would rather be playing a more Japanese Final Fantasy then watered down explosion after explosion. 13, for me was not a really enjoyable game. The lore is really cool and interesting if you are into that stuff, but none of it is explained in the game, and the only way you would know about it is if you went through the tedious menus and spent a day on the FF wiki. I, strangely, have the unadultered patience to go through all of that and I found the story actually pretty cool, but I can see why others wouldn't find it as interesting as I did. I think that in their quest to make the series more accesible, they actually made it more inaccesible. 
