Have to say, as much as I'm looking forward to #DawnTrail (starting an Ascian-free story, huzzah), I'm not sure how I feel about a neon-lit street in a fantasy setting.
The Allagans had advanced tech but in the distant past. The Garleans tried to harness it but imploded, due to...leadership issues.
"Solution Nine" is jarringly futuristic, considering my main is into magicks and swords.
@FibroJedi I guess I feel like that contradiction has long been part of the series' whole vibes, such that I've long come to unironically love it as a kind of odd sort of intentional anachronism.
@xgranade D'you think this is one of those things that I am noticing simply because I've never done any of the other FF games, or is this BOTH/AND tension mostly in FF14?
@FibroJedi I'd guess the former? FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, FFXIII, and FFXV strike me as perhaps the most quintessential examples, with FFVII literally opening on a train heist in a nixiepunk dystopia all the while being very much a swords-and-sorcery battle system and aesthetic in many ways.
@FibroJedi It makes patently no sense, but then again, a lot of genre conventions in other genres and series make no sense either — I personally read the contrast between high and modern fantasy as being quintessential to what Final Fantasy is, but that's again just me.
@FibroJedi (Notable partial exception here being FFXVI, which Yoshi-P said was intended to explicitly buck that trend. Even then, it winds up having ancient civilizations that follow the trend, and has plot points directly calling out the contradiction. To say more would be massively spoiler-y.)
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