I'm glad they got rid of the stuff they did for the most part. I bitched a little bit when it came to THM but I got over it fast. Really I don't need anymore "Western" games from Japan, who cares if you don't sell more, you don't sell more because you don't market to us and we're a marketing kinda country. I'm sad that they tried to make this game more western influenced to attract more people, because in the end it does the opposite. If they could kinda go back to "hey we're SE and we know who we are" that would nice and I think this game would benefit from it. Look at DQ, (dragon quest, even though I miss Dragon Warrior monster DQ monster just doesn't have the ring). DQ has pretty much stuck to the same formula, even same music sometimes, people who like DQ continue to like the DQ series. For some reason when Enix and Square merged DQ did not get effed up as much. But with FF they are kinda like "we have so much we've done outside of the medieval quaint town that we don't know where to go." As seen with FF, old school is for DS, and new school consoles are futuristic, they streamlined XIII and then had to expand XIII-2, as if they didn't know what we wanted. Sad thing is that the only marketing we get for their games is through articles and reviews, gamer misinformer said XIII cut out that "jrpg riff raff" and I almost cried for humanity.

They need to learn who the hell they are and get back to what they do best, that the only thing that can make this game better. Tweaking mechanics is all well and good but not if done by people who are totally unsure of what they want.