What's with people saying Yokai-Watch looks out of place?

[Glasya]

Is not related with story or something like that ... If someone doesn't like, just don't participe in the event.

It's actually worse that they're not story related. You have these curiously simple and cartoonish phong-shaded mounts/minions/items which juxtapose terribly with the comparatively detailed and cohesive high-fantasy backdrop of XIV. This stuff looks alien, and it clearly doesn't belong.
And certainly I can opt-out of participating in the YW event, but this is an MMO: other people wont, and if they then choose to equip these hideous things I am yet -against my will- confronted by them; them merely existing compromises immersion and hampers the experience for anyone concerned with a cohesive art style. Imagine a new player getting dumped into Eorzea after character creation and the open cinematics, only to see another player running along carrying an oversized cartoon dildo with a big puppy face decal- the fuck are they supposed to think about the rest of the game from that image?

These few pieces of glamour gear will totally ruin the lore because they are not MATURE and SERIOUS for MATURE and SERIOUS people such as themselves...(I'd personally find all the Allagan stuff with its blinking neon lights more jarring and out of place anyway)

This is not what people are arguing at all and it seriously gets on my tits when people use strawman arguments to diminish genuine issues. This concerns "artistic integrity", in every possible interpretation of that phrase. The YW items are an unprecedented stain on this game's aesthetics and it concerns me that this event might pave the way for FFXIV turning into another S4 League, Team Fortress 2, or TERA.

Also regardless of how you feel about the appearance of Allagan engineering those designs have been cemented as part of the game world, and were created precisely with the intent of appearing extraterrestrial.