well imho opinion u r bound to be disapointed cause i doubt anything will ever be as good as ff7 character development wise. an emerald will always disapoint if u want a diamond.
but yeah, as Zaphier touched on, wait until the game before u judge.
and in the progression.
ff1 had no development cause they were not meant to. they were just the flawless "light warriors".
ff2 was the worst developed ever and while we may never get ff7 again, be thank ful they have learned from this failure.
ff3 was in a similar way to ff1 but slightly diluted cause they spoke at times.
ff4 had more development in the first min then the previous games combined. the leap in quality from them to this is immense. cecil became the first of the legendary protaginists. i,m only 2 hours in and its destined to be in the top 4 ff games.
ff5 i have heard this dropped characters 4 gameplay. if so...
then ff6 combined ff4 drama with ff5 gameplay quality for the ultimate epic. almost every normal character here is very deep, perhaps suffering from too many characters. of course many hail this as the number 1 ff...
then imho ff7 goes and tops the perfection of ff6.
then the decline ff8. but despite only squall being a worthy character this still had miles better development then the first 3. u may hate them but at least u can. u cant hate ff1-3 two dimensional non entities.
ff9 picked itself back up but still found itself falling short of the high bench marks of ff4, ff6 and ff7.
ff10 in my opinion was the rebirth of the seris and excedded all my expectations. it had incrediable character depth, but inevitablly STILL disapointed because it was still not as good as the big three.
ffx-2 was another collapse imho opinion but still managed to be immense fun.
so yeah, the reason ff1-3 are not killed for no characterisation is because it was not expected back in 1987-1990. when ff4 was released, eveyone expected the rest to match it. ff6 and ff7 set new standards of such divinity it was inevitabally going 2 be impossible to match. ff8-10 were all rationally better then ff1-3 but because they wernt ff6 or using the old job systerm they r heavily criticised. if ff1 for example was released today as a new game and had not existed before would it be hailed as genius and far better then ff8-10? of course not.
so i would say the latest batch (except ffx-2) have there place stuck between the top three ff4,ff6,ff7 and the bottom four ff2,ffx-2,ff3,ff1 and we should just recognise that while it wont beat some of the older ones, ff games r still alive and kicking in character development.
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