General opinion on spinoffs

[Mass Distraction]

When I was researching the Final Fantasy franchise a couple years back I was surprised to find that SaGa and Mana series were both born from FF, Mana more than SaGa as the first three SaGa games were only marketed as FF in North America.

In any case, that's a good example on what you just said about spinoffs sometimes becoming their own series and eventually franchises like hwat happened with those two.