The games that ruined their series.

Sonic 06

no, sonic adventure 2

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it was just too good

Battle Network 5 is, to this very day, the only BN game I've never actually finished / 100%. I'm glad BN6 didn't continue the whole "Mission" system.

OT: Final "Hallway" 13 was the killer for me. I actually enjoyed FF12, but what they did for FF13 really did it in for me. FF15 looks real promising though.

final hallway at least had the very entertaining archlytte steppe, if it hadn't been for that i wouldn't have enjoyed the game at all. 13-2 was ok, pokemon system for bloating though. haven't played LR.

My friend would have said Fire Emblem Awakening, he hates it with passion. Mostly because you could grind out the DLC (you really had to for lunatic though, or you get slaughtered) and class switch till you had nearly every skill and max stats. It takes forever, but you can reach a point where you can beat whole armies with just a handful characters on normal/hard. I remember I accidentally placed Chrom one space too far, and every single enemy attacked him and got killed on the counterattack, without him taking any damage. Or the fact that it had a casual mode that removed the permadeath (I actually liked it, so you didn't have to restart every time someone died from a small mistake). The whole grind for max stats and skills was not typical for Fire Emblem. Such easy class switches made the characters themselves mostly useless as everyone could be nearly any class and some class/skills were far superior (galeforce anyone?).

this game seems more aimed at casuals that have never played a fire emblem game in their life. i found it more difficult than FE8 at least.

I wouldn't say it ruined the game, but it definitely creates an exploit of sorts, in which practically everybody guaranteed to have something to the effect of galeforce, counter, or sol. However, it did make for VERY interesting skirmishes with other players. Not to mention the child system which gave you basically a fusion of your best units skills and growths. My real complaint would be how they did away with the unique fighting animation each class and their advancements had. The swordmaster used to be my favorite to watch fight just because he always did something badass with his lightning fast actions, but now its just a basic sword strike. Chrom's advancement was pretty lackluster as well and his attack animations didn't change when he used Falchion or a lance. Alas, they did make the equipped weapons show up in the battle sequence, I personally would've liked to see those truly unique critical animations that actually truly engage me. That's why FF7 has a special place for me since all the lords had unique battle styles and weapons that gave them alternate ones... SOL KATTI ARMADS

But that's just me....
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i wanted the animations so bad too, the epic general three-step and chained lances, swordmasters cloning.
lethality looks like poop.

i think they didn't add it because they were fearing for space though, like feet.