Pull a Working Designs and modify this game, XSeed.

[JiggiUp]

In its current form it's laughably easy. There's really no point in playing it other than to look at pretty pictures and admire the terrible plot. It would only take an extra menu selection and the changing of a few simple variables to fix this.

Here's my proposal: Start new games with a difficulty selection. Your difficulty decides the number of lives each party member has in battle.

Very Easy: 5 lives (original game)
Easy: 4 lives
Normal: 3 lives
Hard: 2 lives
Very Hard: 1 life

See? You wouldn't need to be a world-class programmer to pull that off, and I'd buy the game a second time. Maybe they could even release it in Japan as an international edition.

[Shizuka]

XSEED doesn't have in-house programmers.

[JiggiUp]

Then get Mistwalker to do it. They're pretty much circling the drain right now and I don't think they have anything better to do, unlike a certain vanilla studio.

Wait, are they even still around? Their site seems to have been purchased by a Russian cybersquatter.

[Shizuka]

They're busy with their three iOS titles.

[JiggiUp]

And the iBorg assimilates another victim. I hope that wasn't Sakaguchi's decision.

[Shizuka]

And the iBorg assimilates another victim. I hope that wasn't Sakaguchi's decision.

...It was.

[JiggiUp]

Then this truly is The Last Story.

[Takao]

I don't think it was a decision he took enthusiastically, but realistically it was the only decision he could take. He had 3 big bombs this generation, partially because he put his games all on the wrong platforms. It's amazing how a sequel to a game people in Japan hated, White Knight Chronicles 2, still outsold both Xenoblade, and The Last Story.

[SIN]

I don't think it was a decision he took enthusiastically, but realistically it was the only decision he could take. He had 3 big bombs this generation, partially because he put his games all on the wrong platforms. It's amazing how a sequel to a game people in Japan hated, White Knight Chronicles 2, still outsold both Xenoblade, and The Last Story.

Wow really? That is surprising.

[Chaosblade]

This seems to be one of the bigger non-preferential complaints about this game (i.e., not about the linearity or something). I'd like to see this adjusted, but I'm really not sure XSEED will be able to make it happen.