^ Dude, first of all if you feel you have to fulfill a "duty" as a fan, you're putting way too much effort into it. I check up on and buy games I find interesting, play them, if they're good I like them for the reasons they are, and if it's bad I move on. I don't stand by SE unquestionably, I could go down the list of things I don't like, but I choose not to spend my time complaining about video games on the internet because it's not my stizzyle (that's style).

I again ask how you can say SE has lost their artistic soul when in your last post for cryin' out loud, you admit there's plenty of games they've released recently that have artistic values. Even their thinly veiled attempts to milk franchises, remakes of Dragon Quest IV, V, VI and Final Fantasy III and IV, have great artistic qualities to them, in the fashion they're remade.

As far as Wada and his cut-throat business practices, that's just him being a CEO, trying to be a good businessman. I'm not defending him blindly, it scared the crap out of me when he suggested they start making western style games, but you have to understand that the company needs to stay afloat, or they won't be making any games at all.

Also, the article you posted said nothing about The World Ends with you, and seems more like a biased rant, as evidenced by the exhaustive diatribes on Atushi Inaba and Okami.

And I'm not blinded in bias against Sakaguchi. Hell, FFIX might be my favorite game in the series, and he had almost everything to do with that on the scenario and concept side of things. But when it comes to the original 6 Nintendo games, there isn't much evidence he had a whole lot to do with it. You're wrong, Tanaka has been credited for game design. What Sakaguchi has done is coordinated development by choosing skilled team members and laying out certain goals.

It's rediculous for you to call me out on merit, when all I did was list several pieces of evidence to support my point (that's what a sound argument is). You, on the other hand, have offered nothing but speculation that he must have had something to do with it in order to be credited. Also, your facts are wrong again, Kitase's "Final Fantasy Adventure" was released the same year as "Final Fantasy IV". And he could have heard about who directed it in a million different ways, please don't play dumb.

Please don't go on with your red-herring logical fallacies about "blind optimism", I've never said anything to warrant that. It just so happens that I enjoyed FFXII and Dragon Quest VIII thoroughly, I loved FFIII DS, Revenant Wings was a pleasure to sit down and playthrough, I have great respect for FFIV DS, TA2, and the War of the Lions port. And right now I'm playing through Dragon Quest IV DS and having a blast as I approach the end of the game. Is it wrong for me to have optimism about a publisher that has produced so many great games, in the last few years especially, that I have enjoyed? Is there really something wrong with that?

From the sound of things, they've released plenty of games recently that you yourself have enjoyed, so I ask again, what's the beef?