As far as I'm concerned, if you're looking into Final Fantasy plots for anything beyond middle school level pseudo-philosophy told via soap opera storytelling conventions, you're doing it very, very wrong. Even the best stories in the series are frequently difficult to take seriously, most often because of how seriously they take themselves.Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
I assure you that I find your admiration for Nomura, Kitase, and company is at least as insane as you might find my dismissal of them.Holy Crap:
^ Translation: "I disagree with your ideas to such a great extent that I ask you to go back and state that they were made in sarcasm."
I think the level of pretension by some of the senior members in this forum can be directly correlated to the declining activity in gaming discussion subforums.
The closest I've ever seen a video game come to being emotionally moving or take on any particularly powerful subject matter was in Lost Odyssey, and really only in the Thousand Years of Dreams which was a collection of beautifully crafted short stories.
That's not to say that I don't find the plots of the games entertaining, but it's not exactly something one should expect to hold any sort of literary significance or have particularly well-developed social commentary. I'd love to see more of that, but it's not something I've come to expect.
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