Its not about spectacle really. I mean ff as a series has always been about saving the world so having an adventurer as a world-saving hero is nothing out of the ordinary for the series. Even in xi we saved the world on multiple occasions.

What sticks is that they made saving the world virtually effortless. The game has a good story, plot, etc etc and adding the fetch quests in the main scenario, while admittedly annoying in some cases (see the wineport series of missions), added a lil more reality to it than most. The only real issue, like I said, is that you could breeze so easily through. I mean if saving the world was really that easy, how come there are still garleans around at all?