Yeah I think they took the complaints of some Westerner's too seriously, because those people complaining about FF's shouldn't be playing them then, that's the game, stop whining. When they made XIII they listened to a lot of whining. The world looked great, the battle system was flashy, but there was NO EXPLORATION, and not one city....lame. (at least in my opinion), so yeah XIII wasn't totally bad but everything I liked about the FF series was taken out of that game, I replayed VII because of it, and it had crappier graphics. FFIII is my favorite because you could change the classes of your party members it was like the FFXI of FFrpgs, bring some of that back, just because you have pretty graphics doesn't mean you can't give us a exploration. DONT APPLY ANYTHING FROM XIII to XIV, outside of the game engine which you already did lol. [ my message to the devs]