FWIW, most of the games in the series are also almost completely unrelated to one another. Same could be said for FromSoft's titles and probably a lot of Capcom

FWIW, most of the games in the series are also almost completely unrelated to one another. Same could be said for FromSoft's titles and probably a lot of Capcom's stuff too. A lot of RPGs are a perennial quest to make the same thing over-and-over again but better. If Final Fantasy had any chance of surviving in today's gaming climate, it needs to ditch the nerdy number stuff and feel as good to play as it's contemporaries. In a world where BoTW and Elden Ring exist, I probably wouldn't play an Octopath Traveller-style Final Fantasy these days. I say that even as a JRPG fan and turn-based apologist.