Quote Originally Posted by Dorfentyme View Post
Side note: All these people praising the games story...makes me wonder how little their attention span is to actually think this game has a good storyline. The story is a typical JRPG cliche...but I guess that's what people like about it. Some people don't want originality, I guess that's okay too.
I'm pretty sure that people are praising the small details, and the ambiance of the story, after all that's half of what makes a story unique.

Remember, most of what you call cliches are just inevitable aspects of life, this is an mmo after all, they have a lot of ground to cover, not just the "original" stories that you're talking about (which IMO are already present in the game.) The complex unique story comes after the foundation has been set.

Also don't make the mistake that because it has a lot of inspired content and allusions to past ff games, it's unoriginal. If anything the game is even more creative and original because of these elements, because it's all implemented creatively and fits in with the world, so it actually is original in it's own way, especially for the series which usually has no connections between the various games .