Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
Quote Originally Posted by VeloZer0 View Post
I will take it in, unbiased and playing it as a Final Fantasy game.
I would advise you play it as a JRPG and not a Final Fantasy game. A significant part of my disappointment with the game was because I was measuring it against a very high standard. It's not really fair to the game, but as we all know the world isn't fair.
I don't know about that. I think there are plenty of JRPG's that don't fall within the FF series that are better than most of the games bearing the FF name. Persona 3 (or really just about any Shin Megami Tensei game I've played), Vagrant Story, Valkyria Chronicles, and hell, even Demon's Souls technically counts. I wouldn't put many FF's up there with them, despite many considering FF to be the pinnacle of JRPG gaming.
I meant JRPGs as a whole, there are a whole crap ton of mediocre games out there. I think that most people would consider the average level of quality of the FF series to be higher than that of the average level of JRPGs as a whole. Especially ones that enjoy it enough to sign up for a Final Fantasy forum.