Final Fantasy VII Remake

I actually liked 8. It had numerous flaws, but the cutscenes and music were top notch for the time. I would not place it above 4 or 5, but it easily holds its own with the other above average entries of the series (for me, 5, 7, 10, and 12 fall here). FF9 was a good throwback, but I could never get past the whole creepy romance between two 12 year olds and it seemed way too unoriginal. Years later, I am not sure how I feel about 7, especially with the downer ending (a recurring issue with every FF other than 8 since FF5) and weird plot, but it is the breakthrough game that put the series on the map for a lot of people, though the gameplay was definitely average and lacking compared to prior entries. Its really where square stopped giving a shit about other aspects of the game in favor of graphics. FF3 suffered from uneven balance and story issues. FF2 and FF13 (with its sequels) are the ones that are outright dogshit, though. I know there are people who jizz over Lightning Returns, but that was not a FF game. It was a timed button mashing fest with a story so out there it made the core FF13 one seem intelligent. I mean, I liked the Vincent spinoff shooter game but I would hardly consider that an RPG and it had more RPG aspects than LR.

X-2 had a decent game system, but the Jpop shit was grounds for nuking Japan again, plus its really just FF5 masquerading as Charlie's Angels Barbie Dress Up adventure. The game was literally made so that people like Sean could have a new line of weeaboo pillows to masturbate with. I mean, my wife would come home and see me playing it and just laughed every time she saw the ridiculous loli crap. I think I would have rather got caught surfing tranny porn than playing that game by her. But X-2 was still more bearable than anything in the 13 series.

They need to go WAY back to their roots. I thought they did for a bit with 12, but looking at the new game its another Thai Ladyboy protagonist with the world in ruins no matter what the heroes do plotline, only this time with 10x more button mashing. Seriously, its like every game since FF5 (outside of 8 and 12) has had the world getting skunked, even if you beat the game. Give us back actually strong lead heroes with real back stories, like Cecil, Rosa, Locke, Vincent, or so on. Let us actually save the fucking world. And for fucks sake, knock it the hell off with the pedo/loli shit.