With regards to the article Wolf Kanno was talking about earlier; I do agree that there are too many FF spin-offs and sequels at the expense of original IP's lately, however I don't personally find this detrimental to the main FF series itself. If I saw the main series as dropping in quality I may feel differently, but as FFXII only confirmed my belief that the main series is as strong as ever I find it easy to ignore the superfluous entries, choosing instead to focus on the main series which still sees a great deal of innovation and originality within the RPG genre.

I do long for a return to the old days when Square put out more original titles however. The SNES and to a greater extent the PSX had more original titles than FF's, many of which are classics everyone should play. With the announcement of The Last Remnant, I hope we may be seeing the first of a number of original titles though we'll have to wait and see. Despite me not even having much interest in the title itself, the simple fact that Square is releasing a brand new title was almost enough to make me jump for joy.