What does it mean to be a Final Fantasy game in 2023?

  • MudMan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Agreed. I would mind a lot less the “Kingdom Heats-ification” of FF is there was a AAA turn-based successor still out there. As it stands, the biggest “proper” JRPG left is Persona, and much as I like it, it’s clearly a step below FF in scope. Even when they dabble in turn based stuff on the SE side they are stuck on mid-sized throwback games.

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      1 year ago

      Does Dragon Quest not work for this? Still turn based even now in the most recent game in the series. Looking forward to the next one.

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        1 year ago

        DQ 11 is also one of the only video games I’ve personally been hooked on the writing for, too. There are a few very emotional moments, both in the main story and side stories. Also, the rhyming mermaids start feeling corny but really grew on me.

        Legend of Heroes is another.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, that’s a good pull, but I’d place DQ closer to Persona than FF in terms of… I don’t know, triple-A-ness? I think objectively that may not be true, DQ XI is pretty large and feature-rich, and DQ VIII was definitely as big as FFXII, short of having fewer CG cutscenes… but I guess the whimsy and more fairy tale-style visuals and narrative knocks it down to that mid-size for me? This may be entirely subjective, I don’t know.