My 2 cents. Final Fantasy games are all unoriginal self indulgent incomprehensible garbage. Like a neverending string of Star Wars prequels. I have native japanese friends who tell me the stories don't many any more sense to them than they do to us, so its not a "translation problem". The fact that they look pretty is…
I'm looking forward to this, although I have a few reservations about the sci-fi bent to it. I love FF12, which I'm still playing through, easily one of my favourite games ever, a very very very close second, if not equal place with FF7. But I can see why people don't like em, they're a big investment in time/effort/etc.…