In 1997 there were adverts on TV of a game with graphics and an aesthetic I'd never seen. The ad was fragments of cutscenes from the game. My father also saw this TV trailer and bought a PS1 he was so impressed.
In 1999 I got a demo disc from a gaming magazine with the entire opening sequence of a game. It was incredible and still to this day the best opening movie and music of any game ever. The second demo disc had an entire mission from the game, invading a town with futuristic but modern vechicles and running from a giant mechanical spider.
In 2001 an attractive but mysterious character with giant tits and a belt dress uttered the words "We called it Sin...", with a trailer again with an art style and setting unlike anything I'd seen before.
These are incredible memories from my childhood, games I replayed constantly and own several copies of on different platforms. An amazing game every 2 years and FF9 was there too.
In 2020 we get a slightly modified FF14 engine with cringe Game of Thrones dialouge and people talking in regular in game sequences. A heavily reworked version is going to be out in 5 years minimum. Yeah. No thanks.
I know it's going to be shit because of the emphasis on summons. Summons were always side characters and bonus missions, they rarely played a major role in the game. Summons are what someone who didn't play Final Fantasy games thinks that Final Fantasy games are about.
Chocobos are similar, nobody has ridden one in main storyline since FF5, they are easter egg transport options. Nobody has cared about a crystal since FF5 either. This is dated shit spinoff games focus on (Bravely Default for example).
Then there's the Final Fantasy theme tune playing over the whole thing, I didn't even know the series had a theme until I went back to play some of the older ones. Does this game not have it's own identity?
The only way it could be worse is lazily reusing FF6 Magitec armour like FF14 and FF15 did.
I'm getting Diablo 3 vibes from this where it's basically going to take the place of an expansion for the company MMO and simultaneously tank the MMO since it'll have a content drought.
