Game Design Concepts that the Devs and Playerbase has Forgotten

[Magikazam]

Someone seems to have forgotten though that the Final Fantasy series is famed for story more than gameplay (and that this is a Final Fantasy game first and foremost.).

While it famed for it story I can't think of a single mainline game that go out of it way to turn the game into a visual novel simulator. The series usually put big chunk of gameplay around it key story moment. Hell, my favorite of the serie, FF6, known to have one of the best story, split your whole party at the start of the second part of the game and you then need to wander around the map, doing side content like dungeons and exploration to find the rest of the cast around the world. Like, they litteraly give you a gigantic gameplay segment that reward you with character development and world building.

It just sound to me that people who use this excuse never played other games in the series.

3. Echo Chambers - Link

That has nothing to do with Game Design team too, that just a community issues. You can't blame them for that.