However, Square wasn’t always like that (well, okay, yes they were). “Rehashing sells” has been their motto for the past few years, to the detriment of the JRPG genre as a whole. It’s rare these days to see the Square-Enix name within a mile of anything original.
That game is Live A Live, which unfortunately never saw a release outside Japan." There was a time, back in 1994, when Square released the second-best JRPG on the SNES, second only to Earthbound.
"It’s rare these days to see the Square-Enix name within a mile of anything original.