FFX haters who say "the story is nothing new" or "the characters are cliche" need to do something.

Shut
The
smurf
Up

Your Final Fantasy I was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy II was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy III was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy IV was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy V was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy VI was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy VII was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy VIII was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy IX was cliche and unoriginal.
Your Final Fantasy XII was cliche and unoriginal.

Do you know why? Because Square's writers are not Victor Hugo. They aren't even frickin' Hideo Kojima. They are just a couple guys who are taking the same package and wrapping it up differently for each game.

Every single game in the series has used character types and ideas that were done countless times across books and movies and TV and theaters and everything else you can mention.

Yes, FFX was not groundbreaking but NO FF game is. it's all just the same regurgitated slop you could find almost anywhere else.

Now, if you want to say that the vomit they make you pay for smells nice, that's fine. Final Fantasy IV has swell odor? Great.

But don't try to delude yourself into thinking that it is something unique or unheard of. it's just the same old same old and that will never, ever change.