What worked in this game

[ReloadPsi]

By "streamlined" I meant "cut down" like "we are streamlining our staff."

Yes, I'm totally referring to the way FFX-2 had multiple actions going on at once, but FFX-2 let you control all three characters and individually switch to any job you wanted rather than setting up specific combinations of three. The Paradigm Shift isn't a new idea; it's taking an older idea and choking it. Removing control over the rest of your allies was a dick move too; now the entire game plays like it's an escort mission, and I hate escort missions.

and make it so that only the party leader is smart enough to use items, so if they faint, it's game over!

In fact I worded the above slightly wrong: it plays like a game where YOU are the one being escorted!

Anyway, I'm taking us off the point of this thread: we're meant to be talking about what worked in this game and all I seem to be doing is shooting down people's claims about what did work and explaining why they didn't. Naughty Simon!