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One of the more endearing character traits for Cecil, at least for this gamer, was that the setup for his guilt was a bit more legit. He was lied to, and his actions eventually lead him to killing a poor girls mother, and then the entire town. He was a soldier doing what he was supposed to do by order of the King, and then realizing the consequences of his own actions.
If anything, FFIV was more advanced, character wise, than some of the more recent RPGs. His romantic ties were already well established. He was already a high ranking and powerful character at the beginning of the game, and the first half of the story involves his rejecting that power and starting anew. Unlike some of the later Final Fantasy's, IV's story didn't rely on on a soap opera love story to keep you interested in the characters, it focused on redemption and taking responsibility.
The entire series, save for Tactics, has pretty much been down hill since.
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I agree with all that you said. The FF series have been going downhill pretty much since the SNES era, except from FF Tactics (to PS1) which is one of my favorite FF games.
And yeah, I've totally lost hope with Square Enix nowadays, they haven't made anything real good in the recent years except Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker which I totally love, but I'm a DQM nut and the DQM games are so simple that it just
can't go wrong. And well I have to say the FFT port to PSP was pretty good to with the rewritten dialogue and added CG movies. Dang, I thought I wasn't gonna find anything to bring up, but well anyways, except from those two I can't really think of anything real real good like from the SNES era.
And seriously what the heck is up with these cellphone games!?! The cellphone must be the crappiest "console" ever to play games on. The controls are usually unbearable, the screen is so damn small and the speakers usually suck ass. Why can't they just make it to the DS or PSP which both are real handheld gaming devices?
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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