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I_Abibde posted...

It is telling that the Enix side remains more or less unchanged, setting aside the absolute creative failure that Star Ocean has become. Dragon Quest XI is certainly a very pretty game, but the core mechanics are pretty much the same that we have been seeing from the series for the past thirty years (not a bad thing, if you ask me).

Ehh.

Enix used to put out games other than those two franchises, and a lot of those games were innovative or really enjoyable. Post-merger, there hasn't been a lot of that, and I'd argue that both Star Ocean and Dragon Quest have fallen off in terms of quality (Star Ocean WAAAY more than Dragon Quest, but still). Speaking as someone who was a fan of both Square and Enix before the merger, both sides of the company have been significantly worse since.

With that merger, the way I've always seen it is that two creative companies with a long history of success came out the other side with each one being worse off. It's not even a scenario where one company pulled the other one down, or they sort of equaled out in the middle, but both winding up worse than they started, and then acting as publisher to Eidos and Crystal Dynamics fucking with those companies as well.

I have no idea what happened on the corporate side (other than it being more takeover by Enix than a straight merger, because Square bankrupted itself via the film studio fiasco), but whatever it was was apparently a clusterfuck.


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