Final Fantasys Demise!

[Cruise Control]

I do agree with you on FF XII and the fact that it took them nearly 5 years to get a new single player FF out on the market. But the biggest reason for that is not the fact that they were focused on other games, it's because FF XII had major development trouble's. I beleive the director passed out and had to be hospitalized because of over exaustion, eventually to be replace by a different person altogether.

And at one point, they just scrapped it and started over.

EDIT:

why not use the FF2/SaGa style of individual stat leveling based on what you did in the fight

Because it was incredibly irritating. Stat levelling was a chore not something that happened on its own.

Now I like the sphere grid. Generally you get a certain type of sphere in an area. This is to prevent your from AP farming, since you'll quickly run out of other spheres.