Square is running out of ideas.

I love Squaresoft to death, but they're smothering their own creativity. How many Final Fantasy games have we seen released in the last two years alone? Two? Three? How many will it be when FF12 is released later this year, or later next year? How many Kingdom Hearts games are in the works? Two. One on Gameboy Advance and a sequel on PS2. The hell, Square? What is wrong with you?

Why haven't we seen another Chrono game? It's been what, three or four years since Chrono Cross came out, and we've seen not even so much as one single screenshot or video clip of the next game in the series, Chrono Break. Why? Because you guys are funneling all of your resources into more Kingdom Hearts and FF games?

What's with the story from FF12? Anyone that has played the Dreamcast/Gamecube RPG Skies of Arcadia can see the blantant and striking similarities between the stories of these two games. FF12's main character? Vaan. SOA's main character? Vyse. One of the kingdoms in FF12? Arcadia. The world in SOA? Arcadia. Lots of airships in both? Check. Lots of air-pirates in both? Check. The main characters in each game are trying to become the leader of a fierce crew of do-gooder air pirates in order to combat an evil empire? Check. As of right now, the story scraps we've been fed are pretty vague, but even with those vague descriptions of the plot, the similarities are too great to be mere coincedence. I'd be willing to bet money that the huge, armored dude with the two swords on FF12's logo is named something similar to "Galcian".

And what's this about a possible Devil May Cry/FF7 hybrid? Featuring Cloud as a Dante-like character performing all kinds of neato juggles and aerial assults? Wow, really creative there, Square. Let's take our most famous heroic character from the Final Fantasy games and just stick him into a DMC clone. That'll sell. It's just a rumor, but it's enough to get my blood boiling. Aren't you guys just simply satisfied with recycling Cloud and Sephiroth for Advent Children without having to resort to more resurrections of these old characters?

And what about the Enix side of Square-Enix? When are we going to see a new Dragon Warrior game? Or a new Actraiser? Or a new Illusion of Gaia/Soulblazer type-game? What about The 7th Saga? Since merging with Enix, what have you guys done to appease the Enix fans in the crowd? Have you done anything? Are you planning on doing anything?

Square is running out of ideas. They're rehashing FF7 and FF10, because those were their two greatest financial achievements in their entire history, and they're milking them for all they're worth. They're ripping off ideas from other games, most notably from Skies of Arcadia. They're ignoring their own franchises and the franchises of the Enix side of their company all so they can squeeze out as many new Final Fantasy games and Kingdom Hearts games as they possibly can in the shortest feasible amount of time. Squaresoft, you're disappointing me, and I hope to God that this trend ends soon.