If you are coming here expecting good storytelling, love yourself more. Square largely doesn't understand what makes Final Fantasy interesting.

... Except when they do. Rebirth's combat is the best in the series. The character writing and moments are what RPG dreams are made of.

Cut out all the fluff from this and Remake and you'd have two-thirds of one solid game. I guess financials and masturbatory narrative tendencies prohibit reasonable decision-making.

This game is a study in totally unrestrained excess. For all that entails, both good and bad.