Why, Square? Why?!

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For the Record my friend Monolith soft is owned/controlled by a collaborated effort between namco and nintendo. Pathetic, I say they try to leave square in order to makie their own games for themselves and get caught up in being controlled by Nintendo and Namco Bandai. Maybe if they were an independent developer their games wouldn't suck. They really should have just stayed at good old square :shakeshead:

Square has made their fair share of crap games as well.

Also, the games had different people in charge of both art direction and character design. For Tactics AD was Hiroshi Minagawa and CD was Akihiko Yoshida, while Gears had Yasuyuki Honne in AD and Kunihiko Tanaka in CD, assuming IMDB isn't lying to me. So any similarities are either Gears copying Tactics or it being a popular art style or whatever.

Edit: Looks like Kishi beat me to it, and with much more evidence. Can't say I'm surprised.