Quote Originally Posted by ReloadPsi View Post
FF9 is twice the "true" FF that 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 put together will ever be (not many realise that 6 was the first to really deviate from the series conventions).
Are you saying that some of the changes made since FFVI are bad? FYI, the FF series would suck a whole lot if there was never any variation. Many of the things in FFVI had lasting positive effects for the series. We could have said in 1988 that FFII didn't belong in the series because it extremely different from its predecessor.

And...FFXII was medievalish, featured decent-at-best character development, an item-driven story, and kept its integrity.

FFIX was medievalish, but it had excellent character development, a character-driven story, and lost its integrity by purposely making the atmosphere of the game unrealistic and by being advertised as "going back to its roots"

Now which one is more like the first five FF's?

Oh and FFVI gets my vote.