charlequin
Banned
I'm not arguing with your general statement, however this part simply isn't true.
Which part isn't true? It's as much a Final Fantasy game as literally any other game that's borne that brand (moreso, really, than something like Dirge of Cerberus.) Unless your definition comes down solely to what's printed on the box, this game is pretty clearly drawing from the FF DNA. The only reason at all that it isn't called FF Gaiden 2 is that SE is trying to unpoison the well a bit in Japan; it probably got renamed like a month before it was revealed.
I mean, if it winds up coming out in two of the three territories with "FINAL FANTASY" in giant letters on the box, are you really going to argue that it straightforwardly isn't an FF game?