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Well if memory serves ff6 was more the problem because it was the first game to go sci fi-ish. Yeah it might be considered a masterpiece today, and some people thought so back then too, but the fanbase was divided then too. And it aint exactly easy to find reviews from early 90s. The internet was too young. Reviews were either in magazines or possibly in bulletin boards. IDK. Maybe I could find something if I tried really hard. But I don't really feel like trying that hard.
Also FF1 was mostly steampunk after the halfway point. Flying ships, submarines, floating cities in the clouds with teleportation. The secret raid boss was even a mech. And FF6 also had tons of fantasy settings. No more steampunk than 1-5
Aint no one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about Squaresoft selling out on FF6 or FF7. That didnt become a thing until FF13. Even FF12 was loved by FF fans. Anyone eho claims otherwise is feeding a load of BS.
What? Did I say something odd?
Nope. Perhaps you don't remember what FF was built on besides turn based combat originally.
FF7 may have been more popular, but ff6 was the first game to stray from the fantasy theme which is why I included it in the conversation, also it released in the first half of 1994, there's plenty of time between that and 1997. And if you happened to miss it, well then, you'll experience the same change in direction in ff7... And I included them both in my original comment so I don't really get what you're trying to prove by saying it didn't sell well in the west. Who cares where it sold well, people in japan have opinions too, did you know?
I tried looking on metacritic to see if maybe they imported some old critic reviews but no, snes is nowhere to be seen and I'm not hunting down magazine scans, I can't look at a port because that runs the risk of introducing nostalgia bias.... which it definitely would if I were to look at gba version or something.
So, I'm just telling you, because I was alive at the time, there was a part of the fanbase that was unhappy with direction ff6 and ff7 took and it was debated in the same way turn based vs action rpg is discussed today. Final Fantasy has never stood still. Is it a strength? Is is it weaknesses? IDK. Its just a fact.
Oh and btw if you're looking for a bad ff game, you ever played 2? like the original 2, on nes? Its pretty bad game. Rereleases tried to improve it, but the original one, did not do well at all in the press. While the industrial ff6 and ff7 were mostly popular, with a bit of backlash from some fans, ff2 was really a dumpster fire. Which is why I find it hard to swallow absolute statements like this:
Not everybody HATED IT. But its not often you will find people say their favourite ff is 2.
You are comparing apples to oranges. How many people who played 1 4 and/or 6 were upset with the direction? Insanely small amounts.
How many people who played 1 4 6 7 8 9 and/or 10 who were upset with 16s direction? A staggering amount. They are disrespecting the name of this franchise by using it to push this turd.
Why name this FF16 if it is so far removed from all the good FF games? Why drag the name into tge mud? Because its easy money from suckers like me. People remembwr this series so fondly that we want it to be good so badly that we will even buy a turd just in case it is good.
How do you know? You realize how different things were before the widespread adoption of the internet don't you? And if you're an american, there was also a lot more of a stable political environment. Infact that could be said of lots of countries. And that goes kind of hand and hand with all the information silos people find themselves in these days..... And these information silos can get you pretty angry.
None of that existed in 1994. FF16 got great reviews on the surface too. The only thing is, in 1994, it wasn't so easy to look beneath the surface like it is today.
A lot of people did not like sci direction of ff6 and ff7. Not a majority. Just like the majority of ff16 reviews are positive, but a significant amount. I remember being nearly as sick of hearing about it as I am of hearing about some of the stupid complaints levied against recent games.
You're asking for modern bad reviews? Uh, thats not hard. Just go to steam or metacritic and filter.
Yes, because people all have the same opinion....?
I don't know what you want from me. I'm not going through old magazine clippings sorry, I mean I guess thats my bad for not having the evidence but this was coming to me word of mouth and sorry I just really don't have the motivation to go hunting down bad reviews for games that I like from old pdfs that may or not not exist on some archival site somewhere.
My point is just that pushback has always existed because ff changes direction so often. Its an ever evolving beast and naturally, no change can please everybody.
FF16 gets good reviews, critic reviews and user reviews. Yet lots of people don't like it. I'm afraid to say its always been like that.
We as humans just have a tendency to romanticize the past. So over time ( especially the longer we stay away from something) the more we forget the negative characterists/coverage/whatever. Rosy retrospection, nostalgia, whatever you want to call it, it is a thing humans do.