>>717446864
It isn't the spiritual successor of those games.
FF8 allow deep customization that matter (junction) coupled with the mini-game/quest/story (triple triad), E33 doesn't, the parry system cannibalize everything, making the entire sub content, aka the RPG part, redundant.
And this is for the gameplay alone, lets not even talk about how those games back in the time were pushing the limit in term of graphics and visual style instead of being a fog simulator wallpaper.