Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Uh, I want a linear/straight story in my Final Fantasy games, even more so for a single-player game.
If only I could dig up this very quote from 2010/11 when FFXIII came out. Yeah, linear story good, or so you think that's what you want. If there's one thing Yoship's good at, he knows people say one thing but they really don't mean it. FFXIII taught them that they can't just make a linear, story focused FF game. It has to have depth to it. Either through its battle system (XII with its zociac boards/LP; X with its spheres, levels, and other things, VII with its materia, etc) and/or through its world environment like in XII, VIII, and some others.You can't just give us a movie and expect that to be a good product. Some of the most memorable things about FF happen to be its battle systems and world environment. FF can't stand on story alone, the people who are good at analysis understand this.