In regards to the main line series, I don't have many worries. Though I don't have glowing admiration for several of the mainstream popular titles in the series, Square has only released one dud in the series for me.

I personally adored XII and was happy to see SE try to break away from the stifling forumlatic approach that most JRPGs were doing at the time. It was more of an FF to me than X was as I felt XII really tried to redefine the genre and created new expectations that I have for the series.

For XIII, I'm actually looking forward to the battle system (except for the Eidolons as its still retarded) and for the most part, I can't see the gameplay disappoint unless it has similar major flaws like FFX had for me. I'm still wary of its story as I have yet to be pleased by anything Motomu Toriyama has worked on. Despite all this, I know it will be a success and will get glowing reviews.

My main issue comes from the side projects SE does, as I said, the Compilation for the most part has been pretty terrible. The Ivalice Alliance has been mixed for me but overall I would sadly say its been rather disappointing overall. I don't even really want to see what FFIV:The After Years is like due to the quality of every other sequel SE has given us.

Mana got rammed into the ground, SE has decided that obviously no one likes Front Mission (though I guarantee the action/shooter entry will actually make it here whereas we will never see Front Mission 2, 5, and Online ever ) outside of Japan, and it seems like all the really innovative and interesting projects only have a slim chance of being released outside of Japan. I just feel that SE's new marketing plans for the non-Jpanese market is simply release anything with FF, DQ, and KH in the title (regardless of its quality) and then let's pour millions of dollars into making original IPs that will appeal more to a western audience that magically never contributed anything to the sales of our products in the last 20 years.