Sequelitis

[Wolf Kanno]

I think there will now be more pressure on the writers to 'save something' for the sequel,

I don't want to have to buy RW to get the answers to questions I should have gotten in XII, and I don't want to have a story spread thin over three titles when it could have been told in one.

Going back on topic...

This right here is my major worry, cause I've seen it happen... I know I should stick to at least SE games but this one stems from one. It was called Xenosaga. When Xenosaga episode I was first announced, they had a beautiful 8 min. trailer. Now what some may not know, is if you watch the trailer, it containes scene's from Episode II of the series as well (It also had a few more blatant references to Xenogears but we won't go there...).

A lot of Xeno fans were disappointed they only got what felt to them to be "half a game". Now episode II comes out and we have a lot of internal conflict with the developers and next theing you know, half the staff is fired or quits. One of the main writer's, after Episode II was released to less than steller reviews and fan outrage, reveals that the plot to the game was cut. She revealed major plot points that were supposed to be in the game that were cut out, cause the company "wanted to save something for the sequel". Consequently, all the stuff she mentioned actually does happen in Episode III. In fact, if all of it had been kept in Ep II, Ep.III wouldn't have any story at all.

.hack was a marketing ploy but this was supposed to be a series that spanned thousand's of years so there was always room for an actual sequel, just not with the entire cast. This kind of bull killed that series and I would hate to see another company try to pull this stunt.

I will base my opinions on sequel material based on what I see for myself. I didn't like FFX-2, even though I went into that game knowing I was going to probably not like it and god did it even destroy those standards. :rolleyes2 But I actually Liked Advent Children, even though I'm not a big fan of FFVII (too many plotholes ) I felt that AC at least focused on something that I never felt was resolved in the main story (Cloud's guilt at failing to save Aerith), so I walked away from it feeling like the sequel was a good thing.

It can be good, it can be bad. I think we'll have to wait and see. Personally, RW doesn't exactly interest me so I may end up passing on it.