They don't seem to have ever quite recovered from hitting the polygon ceiling in this regard.Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke
The characters animations, starting with VII on up, went from cute and funny to garish and overdramatic.
This game was the last game that accepted that it was a Final Fantasy game, and not a goddamn franchise whore, manipulating your emotions like a domineering mother. Hell, FFVII even has a scene with your domineering mother. Sephiroth's whole backstory is about a domineering mother figure.
Seriously, this is the last time they roped me with the story. I came away from Final Fantasy VII thinking "Okay...", Final Fantasy VIII thinking "well, that's nice, I guess" and Final Fantasy IX thinking "smurf you, Square."
I only grudgingly played X, and wasn't at all invested in the characters or plot.
This was the last time they managed to tell anything resembling a coherent story, that didn't utterly derail into nonsense by the end.
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