hmmm.....i love the chrono games dearly. chrono trigger was great and in my, much disputed, opinion; chrono cross was even better. I was immensely impressed by FFVII, immensely let down by FFVIII, and BLOWN AWAY, COMPLETELY LEFT IN AWE OF THE MASTERPIECE IN GAMING THAT WAS FFIX!!

X, in my opinion, started off great. but im starting to suffer from the same thing i did when playing VIII. When i was playing IX, i was itching when i was away from my PS1, and was intensely emotionally attatched to the characters and the story. But playing VIII, and now X, i started to debate wether or not i cared what happened next. I just didnt get into VIII's story and while i did get into Xs story, i have lost intrest rapidly.

Vagrant Story i thought was okay, not great but not terrible,
Xenogears, never played it but i will soon. its been on my list for years
Ehrgiez, personally i thought it sucked. i didnt see the point in it
Parasite eve and PE2, nah. didnt like them either

my point in all this is, every company no matter what they make will go through dry patches. on a whole i think square have managed to stave off these dry patches but if god forbid, they get struck by one....so what?? they're only gonna bounce back again. Not only are square great at making games but they're great at making crap ideas great games. i mean, i nearly choked when i heard about kingdom hearts. DISNEY??!?! HOW DARE THOSE DISNEY FREAKS INFILTRATE MY SQUARESOFT!!! but, then i played it. it shouldnt have worked, there was no way it could have worked, but it did.

square make good games. occasionally they make GREAT games.
and like anyone, they also make their fare share of stinkers. either way, they're gonna be around for awhile, coz as much as certain ppl moan about games that havent been released yet, (FFXII, DOC) the fact is we're square freaks and we're gonna buy them anyway

thats just my opinion, take it how you want