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[madolyn]

kinda don't like that female ninjas get some off color tights instead of hakama :/

[ZReport]

kinda don't like that female ninjas get some off color tights instead of hakama :/

You know people are going to glamour skirts on regardless.

Nope.. SO far both possible Dark based Primals are now scraped. Fenrir was a powerful one at that, but we get this...

Who's next on the waterd down list, alexander?

Fenrir was only a Dark-Elemental in FFXI. He was an Earth-Elemental in FFIX and a Non-Elemental in FFVI. His role was never defined outside of FFXI, so they can make him whatever they want in this game. Alexander would be a hard sell to change up, as he's not only always been a Holy-Elemental, but he's always held a somewhat prominent role since Final Fantasy IX.

To be fair, neither has Titan nor Ifrit nor Leviathan. Carbuncle has always been a far more useful and "powerful" summon, either because of the reflect trivializing some "hard bosses" or the regen effect. It wasn't, again, until XI did certain summons actually get a "purpose" and "Power", like Garuda for example.

Garuda is the only exception to what they added. Titan/Ifrit/Shiva/Ramuh/Leviathan/Odin/Bahamut have always been iconic (exceptionally recognizable) summons through out the Final Fantasy games, hence they were given much more priority over everything else. There has never been a well defined Wind-Elemental summon, so they threw Garuda in there from FFXI and called it a day.

It was never about what summons had more or less "power", because this definition almost always changes between games (this and the fact that summons rarely got story lines & side stories outside of Bahamut and Odin). It's all about what they deemed is an "icon" to the series and IP.

[TheMunimai]

Fenrir was only a Dark-Elemental in FFXI.

Pretty sure Diabolos' "elemental alignment" was darkness

[ZReport]

Pretty sure Diabolos' "elemental alignment" was darkness

I was stating that Fenrir was a Dark-Elemental in FFXI, not that he was the only Dark-Elemental. There's no well defined elemental alignment for Fenrir, so they made him Ice based in this game.

[TheMunimai]

Ahh my mistake - I misread your previous comment - My bad :P

But yes Fenrir's alignment has changed between previous Final Fantasy games, it's a shame he's been demoted to a dungeon boss like most previous summons, but glad hes in the game nonetheless.