The fact that they had to come out and actually defend 4 Heroes of Light made me simile. However I think that's as far things might go. I just wish someone would call them on this more.
Not totally sure what you mean.
I've played through a good deal of "4HoL" (japanese version), and it's a great game, far better than most FF games in my opinion.
It has lots of hoary old RPGisms (random encounters!), but it also just drips with
charm, and that hasn't been true of any FF game since about 1994 as far as I can tell... (the "crystal" games were just sort of freaky I thought)...
In other words, Square may suck
generally, as may their FF spin-offs -- no argument there -- but I think 4HoL is a fine game. It's a minor but welcome counter-example to Square's general awfulness.
[I didn't know it was getting dissed, but I suppose it's not all that surprising; FF fans are, well, ...]