Quote Originally Posted by Roogle View Post
I can understand the point of view of the opening post. I feel that quite a few of the Final Fantasy titles tend to lose a lot of their storyline and gameplay focus at the end, as the only thing that remains for the player to do are several or few sidequests and take on the last boss in a final dungeon sequence; additionally, many of the bosses from Final Fantasy games have little or no connection to the main storyline over the course of a majority of the game. Examples of this type of final boss include: Ultimecia, Necron, and Yu Yevon.
Ultimecia actually has a lot of connection to the storyline for most of the game in FFVIII. She's the one possessing Edea for the first two discs for one. And Necron and Yu Yevon only add on one battle, they hardly stretch the games out that much.

And to thelast poster saying FFIX had a 'unnecessarily long ending' - WRONG.