Impressive? Not.

[The black mage]

You might as well spit on games I-III, too, in this case. I don't remember that any of them had a compelling story.

The main thing of FF is the story lines.

Square-enix don't own RE4! Come on everyone! Square are making the plots for FFXIII as we speak, they're just testing combat moves before they start with the story lines (ie in a random battle, NOT the BOSS BATTLE for 'testing combat'). Same goes for FFXIIIVersie

Exzactly the programers would test the combat system whele the writers made the plot.