It is, as the series has always been, a graphical showcase of the first order. What is heartening, though, is that the last of Hironobu Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy games makes a very strong argument for being the best game the series has ever seen. Not that these aren't interesting new worlds to explore, but change on that scale is always a little unsettling. After this, we have the strange new world of online adventuring, and then Yasumi Matsuno's takeover of the executive-production reins.
Final Fantasy VII meant the leap to 3D, and an unprecedented step forward in the games' cinematic presentation, but FFX is essentially the last Final Fantasy as we have known it. This is perhaps the time to sit back and appreciate the series, because Final Fantasy X marks its biggest turning point. When you think about it, in terms of the amount of product involved, it's one of the biggest franchises in the history of entertainment. Sit back and think about the amount of effort that's gone into Final Fantasy over the years, however many it's been, and the amount of game that's come out of it.
Gamers have grown used to a new FF coming out like clockwork on a nearly yearly basis nowadays, and that regularity, in addition to the fact that every game is a new creation, perhaps obscures the magnitude of the entire endeavor over its history.
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