In case anyone is curious, "fabula nova crystallis" just translates to "the new story of the crystal". Bit of blatant Latin there.

FFX-2 team: We get to make FF13! Awesome!

KH2 team: Your game looks like shit...we can make a better one

FFX-2 team: Nuh-UHH!!!

Wada: There is only one way to settle this.. Make TWO Final Fantasy 13's, then we'll see who's the better development team!

Personally, I just don't get how they can have an FF game without Uematsu involved with the score, much less THREE FF games without Uematsu involved with the score. I mean, come on, what's this world coming to?

Now this is just out of fucking control. I'm totally overwhelmed. I need a smoke....BUT I DON'T FUCKING SMOKE.

A conundrum!

I would affirm that a human ass is too large to anatomically engulf within a human mouth. Even taking those afflicted with Dwarfism into account, I believe that it remains a wistful exercise in the attempted realization of futile fantasy. I will acknowledge that a portion of the surface area of an ass may be sucked, via a straw, vacuum cleaner, or miscellaneous instrument of suction. However, the only instruments of suction large enough to suck the entire ass, the vacuum cleaner, et cetera, gain their power from electrical energy, rather than human machinations. It is therefore impossible for a human being to suck human ass.

Do you perhaps refer to the ass of a non-human organism? It is possible for a human to suck the ass of a kitten, for instance. I would affirm that such ambiguity should be bypassed in future considerations if this was, indeed, the intent behind your diction.

MERRIMENT. Cry "Vapid," and let slip the dogs of war. But seriously, thank you very much!

In any case, I wouldn't think of Uematsu as over the hill. I view him as an equivalent to his industry as Ennio Morricone, though to a lesser extent. Morricone is 78, and still actively scores films. He has worked in film soundtracks since 1959, and he's still a reckoning force. Now, I'm not saying that Morricone's skill makes Uematsu good, because that logic is ludicrous. What I do mean to say, though, is that I believe composers have a very long life-span, and that a composer is only over the hill when he/she either becomes an artifact of archaic and outdated stylism, or is no longer physically capable of writing.

I would also like to say that, though I agree wholeheartedly with Rahul's assertion that synthesizing individuals and franchises is a mistake, I wonder if Square-Enix realized that before recent days. Uematsu, for instance, single-handedly composed every Final Fantasy from I-IX, and has contributed to every FF since. I think that, in the eyes of many, that might already constitute a synthesis. I hope not, as that would erect a static standard destined to disappoint.

But hey, as long as ice cream is tasty, things will be well in the world. Kind of like Kingdom Hearts stating that there's a light that never goes out. That light is ice cream, and it remains delicious to this day.

It's probably an error on my part to think of Square-Enix as SQUARE-Enix, when the opposite is actually true. I forget that Enix is the driving force, so yes, you're right when you talk about how fresh they really are. The old rules don't really mean a damn thing anymore, and don't have a place in this discussion.

And what a gloriously marbled, steamingly succulent gob of man-chowder it was!

Didn't seem to be against the ToU; I think I just coasted by on that one.