Hah, Thanks for that one Jim. I've been saying the same thing for years, I have always thought "Well maybe I don't understand the culture or i'm missing the point."
Nope, pretty much everything they make these days is complete nonsense.
I never know what I am looking at or what I am doing or what the characters are talking about. Final fantasy 13 is a perfect example, I waited for like 3 hours hoping maybe we would encounter a character that didn't know what was going on so the main characters would explain what all these things are and what it actually means but no.
They can't understand why the market doesn't care for RPG's so they buy up all these other IP's then a game like bravely default comes along under the radar and everyone's like, "Wow, a JRPG without stupid craziness and things that make no sense."
And Bravely default isn't even that good, it really isn't, it's only so good because it has so much less. so much less that they basically stopped making the last half of the game and just repeated the first half but you know what, people still loved it because at least it wasn't robot batman nonsense.
It's amazing how much they simply don't care about the customer, where art direction and story telling just go off the deep end as gameplay gets butchered for the sake of "Well throwing shit at the wall worked for us a few times lets just keep doing that!"
guess what, some of the shit doesn't stick. to bad no one from Square are jim fans I suppose.