Yeah it was a FF game was sister was playing, the first section at the start of the game you start on a long bridge (the very definition of linear, lol) inside a massive futuristic dome structure. Basically the combat was pressing the attack button repeatedly as you cycle through your character's turns. It almost made me feel sick seeing a turn-based combat having been so utterly dumbed down. There was no tactics or anything, you could literally auto-attack your way through every combat encounter by pressing one button.

... so you've seen a bad game. This is like rating RPG combat while watching someone play the first Diablo as a pure knight.

As I said, I'm only talking about my general experience playing a few modern JRPG's on the PS3 (that I've had the displeasure of helping my sister get through,if you want to wait I'll get the names, but the other one was Star Ocean something I think). I wasn't pretending to be objective or anything, I'm a fan of the combat in Final Fantasy Tactics. And despite the button-mashy combat, the unique storyline and setting of a Japanese RPG on PS3 called 'Nier' is one of my favorites of all time.

I did not like 8 one bit, 10 was better at least.

I like the game. I can play it with one hand while eating cake, which is a great advantage. Who really wants all that complicated nonsense anyway?
The review is hilarious. Beacuase...

I agree between the two 10 is better then 8 alot of things were better then 8 but overall both are pretty weak as both RPGs and Final Fantasys

My favorute Final Fantasy is any FF that takes place in Ivalice such an awsome world best was 12.

Second Favorite 1,4,6

Third Favorite, 7,9,10

I really Hate the Hard is Good, Easy is bad arguments.

It's true that a game being hard doesn't mean it's bad but it doesn't make Hard games are always good and nor does it make Easy games are bad. There's a place for all difficulty levels in games.

I do Agree that later Final Fantasy games have problems, FFX and FF XIII are Terribly limited and offer little choice even on levels of JRPGs. FFX is on the edge of what's acceptable since there was some choice in tactics, even if it's buried under one of the worse examples of Form over Function in gaming, The sphere Grid and the US got a dumbed down version that removed even more choices. FF13 did away with that, you had the classes that you couldn't chose until the end and then if you wanted say, a Guardian Lightning to have an evasion tank, you had to grind for hours to make it as useful as a Medic at level one. It's not that the games are easy, it's just that they don't offer much for the player to do, most the optional stuff in FFX is Busywork and while there is some freedom in building characters, you have to painfully. The good Final Fantasy games still were somewhat linear but had a ton of tactical choices to make, want Cyan the knight to Learn Ultima, sure you can, not the best idea in the world but no one's stopping you. FF 7 had a ton of great choices as well wince the materia system was really deep and not very restrictive, though I like FF6's more.

Good JRPGs are out there, they engage in storyline and gameplay both, The new FFs don't engage either of these or just one, that's why they're bad JRPGs, not because they're easy.

the future of RPG is playing Fallout 2. The maybe some Amiga games.

That was a pretty nice satire of the action RPG genre; strangely enough, I've actually seen the review video before - but I had no idea that it was pertaining to this game XD. I still found it hilarious at the time I watched it. If only all the trollish rants on Youtube were automagically voiced out loud dramatically like this, I would be a lot less depressed when reading the comments. The game, satire though it may be, eerily reminds me of a lot of click-heavy ARPGs and some of the more forgettable JRPGs I've played in my time.

I think it's clear that the review is fake and is, in fact, way to get people to think contrails are just water vapor.

I assume you've seen the old "how is babby formed" vid?