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More and more, it seems like the Squaresoft half of SquareEnix feels ashamed that they're not in the film industry instead.

I'd completely missed that Final Fantasy 16 actually came out some months ago. From the looks of it, it's about what I expected; an action game masquerading as an RPG, bogged down by the creative bankruptcy prevalent in AAA gaming as a whole.

Perhaps not directly, but the fact that XV was a financial success probably has a lot to do with why XVI is going to ape its gameplay mechanics.

I blame Nomura; the man's influence over today's SquareEnix cannot be understated.

It's still an action RPG, which in my mind makes it not really Final Fantasy anymore. It could be amazing, don't get me wrong; but I think it's a good idea to just take XV, and consider every entry from that point on as part of a completely different franchise.

I still have a soft spot for the first game; it was a buggy mess in retrospect, but I keep going back to it every couple of years or so. Final Fantasy IV is also my favorite as well (though V is a close second); I remember playing through it multiple times as a kid. I never really felt that VI...