Quote Originally Posted by Lord Golbez View Post
FF12 seems like the result of Matsuno wanting to tell a story about political strife and warfare while someone else at Square wanted to tell a story about a plucky band of adventurers saving the world. They fight over which story to tell and they both lose. No story gets told.
It would seem that I am walking into a previously existing argument blind here, so forgive my ignorance of the finer details, but I'm not sure what you mean by no story being told in the game -- I find both of those elements work together to deliver the whole story of what is going on. Ashe and her party operate on a completely different level of knowledge, influence, and scale than Vayne does, and since you play as them and not Vayne you lack firsthand knowledge about most of what he is puppeting, but the party's goals always seemed rational and I followed their story well enough.

Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
Despite that though, there are several connections between the games. XII gives us the origins of the Lucavi as well as the fridge horror realization that it's Ashe's fault that they will eventually terrorize the world.
How does it give us the origins of the Lucavi? I haven't played this game in years, so I don't recall this at all, unless it deals with the smashing of the Sun-Cryst maybe? That seems like an important event that should have consequences. . .