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For me, the highlight was FFVI. Square was firing on all cylinders on the SNES. FFVII started the tilt into anime and, aside from FFIX, they've continued to
by rikthevik 3y ago
For me, the highlight was FFVI. Square was firing on all cylinders on the SNES.
FFVII started the tilt into anime and, aside from FFIX, they've continued to lean into that. I don't care for it.
Luckily the indie developers (and even teams within Square Enix) have taken up the mantle. Chained Echoes, Sea of Stars, the Star Ocean Remake, the Tactics Ogre remake, Crosscode, the Seiken Densetu 3 remake, Live A Live, SaGa Frontier 3, the Octopath Traveler games - they're quite good, and that's just in the last few years! Maybe not to everyone's taste, but they are well made games and there's no shortage of good stuff to play.
- djur 3y agoI'm not sure what "tilt into anime" means here. FF has always been heavily influenced by anime. If anything, the earlier games bore those influences more obviously.
- mlyle 3y agoI don't think it's exactly a tilt into anime per se... FF1-6 & 9 had very distinctive characterization and art styles, with out of proportion characters. A lot of it was forced by technical limitations of the NES/SNES, but it's a style that we grew to love. 7, 8, and the rest -- not so much; it's a much more mainstream aesthetic.