Final Fantasy 12: RPG of the year, or cheap attempt to make money?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Too be honest, I'm not rightly sure. Having only recently started playing both FF7 and FF8, the jury's still out on each of their respective systems. Both Materia and Junctions mean that any character can use any ability. With Materia, characters become their limit breaks. With Junctions, characters become completely overpowered, and at times it gets fiddly with having to micro-manage which abilities to set for each character. Materia also seems to take AGES to build up and both systems mean you have to keep switching things around everytime you want/need to use another character. Personally I think FFX had the best (and simplest) system so far, but hopefully XII's will be good as well.