Quote Originally Posted by Winterclaw View Post
Abriael. Actually FF10 was the last game to feature a romance in the main story.
i didn't count FF11, simply because as a MMO it wasn't really expected to have romance (even if it'd be possible, and it's pretty evident that I'd love to see it in XIV).

Personally I find the idea of moving away from romance one of the most silly Square ever had. It's always been one of the strongest points of their games backstories and the fans did react quite negatively to it.

With Final Fantasy XII and XIII the biggest (reasonable) complaint I heard around was the lack of character progression an depth, and romance is a primary factor to that.
Maybe they wanted to be more similar to the majority of western games, and that's pretty funny to see that quite a few western developers made the opposite move that was met with success.