Especially aggravating when you consider it was in favor of GaaS games that mostly either fizzled out quickly or got cancelled.

Yeah, not like there's been a number action based RPGs out of japan like tales and secret of mana.

I remember after E33 came out I heard a critic say “finally, like something Mistwalker would put out”, when Mistwalker had literally just released a console port of Fantasian literally months ago