I'm not a fan of Primrose but at least it fits her character (not that it's saying much aside from just T&A - I think a dancer in plainclothes would be far more interesting, simply because it's going against lazy tropes).
That said, the actual game's visuals are a
really odd mish-mash. Maybe it looks better in motion but the stills are really strange visually. Like, you have these hyper modern looking menus, fantasy sprites, and medieval pseudo-3D backgrounds.
It's... strange, to say the least.
*sigh* I miss the days of Romancing SaGa
I'd really like a Square game that has some actual visual identity. Bravely Default's probably the closest they've come in the last decade (if not longer).
edit: Hoooooly crap. So, I just noticed this and hadn't really paid attention to it until this post. It seems like the Square-Enix merger is where Square, ironically enough, died. The company goes from creating new content every year or two, to just becoming this massive regurgitation engine. Like, the company just transforms into this re-release and remaster and re-do monster. There are years after the merger where the entire year is nothing but re-releases. And this has gotten worse as time has gone on. Every year more and more re-releases and less new content. Honestly, that's kinda sad.
I'm now wondering how many other companies died on the corporate merger pyre...
Not sure what you mean by that when this isn't true and even if it was, it isn't just this company which does it. If you want to say that about one company, Capcom is much more suited to it than Square Enix in that generation. Square Enix launched plenty of new games every year since the merger where Enix was the surviving company, even counting only the japanese side.
Here's the list just with games that aren't remasters, ports or remakes. I'm of course not picking Square Enix Europe offerings with their subsidiary and games published by them in the west, if I picked them it would be bigger.
2003: Crystal Chronicles, Drakengard, Front Mission 4, Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel
2004: Dragon Quest 8, Fullmetal Alchemist 2, Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special
2005: Radiata Stories, Musashi Samurai Legend, Front Mission Online, Hanjuku Hero 4: 7-Jin no Hanjuku Hero, Drakengard 2, Fullmetal Alchemist 3, Grandia 3, Heavy Metal Thunder, Code Age Commander, Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime, Kingdom Hearts 2, Front Mission 5: Scars of the War
2006: Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, Children of Mana, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XII, Dragon Quest: Shōnen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon, Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable, Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, Project Sylpheed, Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, Dawn of Mana, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
2007: Heroes of Mana, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Itadaki Street DS, Dragon Quest Swords, The World Ends with You, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
2008: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, Front Mission 2089, Nanashi no Game, Sigma Harmonics, Infinite Undiscovery, Soul Eater: Monotone Princess, Snoopy DS, Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume, The Last Remnant, Dissidia Final Fantasy
2009: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, Kuroshitsuji: Phantom & Ghost, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Dragon Quest Wars, Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road II Legends, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord, Dragon Quest IX, Blood of Bahamut, Fullmetal Alchemist: Daughter of the Dusk, Final Fantasy XIII
2010: Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Death By Cube, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, Nier, Final Fantasy XIV, Front Mission Evolved, Lord of Arcana, The 3rd Birthday
2011: MindJack, Bust-a-Move Universe, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Type-0, Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest 3, Fortune Street, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Army Corps of Hell
2012: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Heroes of Ruin, Dragon Quest X, Bravely Default
2013: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Drakengard 3
2014: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, Final Fantasy Explorers
2015: Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below, Theatrhythm Dragon Quest, Bravely Second: End Layer
2016: Dragon Quest Builders, I am Setsuna, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, Dragon Quest Heroes II, Final Fantasy XV, World of Final Fantasy, SaGa: Scarlet Grace
2017: Nier Automata, Dragon Quest XI, Lost Sphear, Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary
2018: Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, Octopath Traveller, Kingdom Hearts 3