>>713987101
Fair enough, I just wish they required a second brain cell to succeed at. Beating any Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy title has never felt like an accomplishment, more like an on-rails emotional experience derived exclusively from the aforementioned (artists, musicians) than anything game-related.
Can't imagine anybody in Japan has ever thought about a "that part" in a game they actually want to replay for the sake of playing it, rather than the emotional high spiked by the music or a sequence of dialogue.
And all I can and have been asking of Square for two decades now is
>Why not both?
For reference, Dragon's Dogma, flawed as it is, has some of my favorite gameplay AND story sequences. Games like Chess (strategy) can give that same high if you're facing a competitor who gives you some actual competition, and FF has none. The player is irrelevant to the gameplay, and it makes me sad.
