Ask old school fans of Interplay, Bioware, or Bethesda: no one's making RPGs like they used to. But lately SE's published a lot of great console games, developed a bunch of great handheld RPGs, and FFXIII was no more polarizing than any other entry in the series.

Square Enix never fell off, the gaming industry did. The talent's still there, I'll always have faith in them.