If SE wants to make great games again I have a suggestion: sack Toriyama and get a competent director in charge again. Itou and Kitase are still with the company and have far more to their credit than he will ever have. Sure, he had a hand in FFX, but since it was his directing role, there were separate battle and map directors, and Nojima wrote the script, I'd expect it was minor.
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Who knew the Rivalry Rumble would be so predictable? SuperNiceDog, that's who.