Okay, so Final Fantasy games have always sucked. Point taken.
Haha. Nawww. FF1-10 are all good games for different reasons. Well, except FFII, but it's still better than FFXII. Blech.
As for IU's reviews, I'm honestly not surprised. All jrpg vets should know by now that the western media doesn't "get" jrpgs and we jrpg fans don't give a shit what they say. Most jrpg fans go by user impressions more than anything else since they typically used to take 6 + months to come out, so we'd know if they were good by then. Now that the games come out the same month, the same day as they do in Japan, things are a little bit trickier, but you just gotta go with your gut I guess.
Still, I don't see any jrpg fan giving a fucking shit what the reviewers have to about our genre. They can suck my cock. So what's the big deal? Remember when they said BD was archaic? lololol.
It's a miracle when a jrpg gets a 9.0 in western media and isn't from Square Enix.