Ok, I am so happy that this game is as good as it is. I got worried because after Final Fantasy IX, I felt like the series was starting to go downhill. Final Fantasy X and X-2 was a joke, and XI sucked because it was just online play, and we weren't that blessed with Dirge of Cerberus, or Crystal Chronicles, which sucked horribly by the way, but at one point in time I started to get worried that the series was gonna fall into a dark warphole that it could never get itself out of, and I was concerned because when I played the demo for this game on Dragon Quest VIII, I thought this was gonna be another bad one, but turns out that this game may get things up to speed again, and with Final Fantasy XIII out in the media now, all of us FF Fanatics can be happy again!!!!