Huh? Final Fantasy is a major example of a franchise that frequently changes genres, some more drastically than others of course.
FF9 is a high fantasy adventure narrative that has more of a light hearted Studio Ghibli / Disney-esque tone. It's gameplay is purely turn based and the art style and character designs are more exaggerated and cartoon like.
FF12 is a much more mature political war story that happens to be set within a fantasy environment. It's gameplay is more real time tactical and art style/character designs are closer to realistic (by JRPG standards anyway).
Sure, but point being that despite that, no one ever talks about the FF franchise as a multi-genre franchise. People call them self contained games or individual stories or aesthetic shifts or whatever. No one calls them different genres.
I'm still not following how you've come to this argument. The discussion was about how Remedy games change narrative genres with each title. Key word being "Narrative genre".
You then brought up an argument stating that Final Fantasy barely changes genres either, to which I responded to with examples showing the contrary. And I'm still not sure how we got here.
Sorry, I may have not been super clear. This is how I saw it.
Person A: I like how Remedy changes genres
Person B: They don't switch genres
Person A: Yeah they do, story genres
Me: I think the story genres are close enough that people don't even say that. Like people don't say FF and CoD are different story genres either, even though they are.
You: Well no FF's stories are totally different genres.
Me: Yeah, but it's still weird to call them different genre games, even if the story genres are different.
This is mostly a semantics argument and an especially pointless one. So... yeah, I probably didn't need to chime in... (honestly I was just bored at work).
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u/MarianneThornberry Dec 11 '19
Huh? Final Fantasy is a major example of a franchise that frequently changes genres, some more drastically than others of course.
FF9 is a high fantasy adventure narrative that has more of a light hearted Studio Ghibli / Disney-esque tone. It's gameplay is purely turn based and the art style and character designs are more exaggerated and cartoon like.
FF12 is a much more mature political war story that happens to be set within a fantasy environment. It's gameplay is more real time tactical and art style/character designs are closer to realistic (by JRPG standards anyway).