Everything after ffx just dropped in quality

I remember ff4 being turn based or at least the same menu maybe active time where if your too slow npcs will act but it’s been awhile

FF12 had some bullshit chest near the beginning of the game… If you opened it you lost the ability to 100% the game and get the Zodiac spear ( reportedly some ability to get one in a very tedious grunts fashion but it’s been ages)

Basically the straw that broke the camel’s back for me with ff… The games story and combat was already a let down after they dropped the turn based combat like all of them ff1-ff10

But yeah generally I dislike many soft lock mechanics or illogical things that punish you for just playing the game… Oftentimes these were put in games just to sell strategy guides.

I stopped liking final fantasy once they abandoned it… Literally last game I played was 12.