Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
FFX had the "kiddy" version of the religion cliche. Play FFT, Vagrant Story, and Xenogears; those games had controversial religious themes. Most of the main numbered FFs have always had a muted version of serious storylines. Even XII, which is probably one of the most mature FFs feels like the "kid version" of a Matsuno title.
That's likely because Squeenix took over development when matsuno fell ill halfway through, as well as completely overrode his original vision for XII. It was originally supposed to be quite "grimdark" just like Tactics.