VIII just didnt have the right feel for me... it was superficial and cold, the love story was a forced one, and a wrong one. Rinoa was veyr superficial, and most of the characters were so 2-d I wanted to scream. And I'm refering to their personalities. They were all stereotypical, and very few of them had any character development at all. They all more or less end the game the same people they were when it began. Time Compression was ridiculous, Ultimecia seemed kind of thrown in at the end there, and the whole thing didnt flow together like an FF should.

Does that mean there should be a name change? Not really. A great series is bound to have a fluke here and there, may as well get it over with. Square seems to have learned from it's mistakes.