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.

[swiss_Momo]

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.

"All these incredibly contrasting sci-fi looking ruins and artefacts everywhere are totally a OK because they are part of the lore, but these easily ignored optional glamour items are totally gonna ruin the game!"

oh the irony

[MilesSaintboroguh]

As a few others have posted, anyone that cries about immersion being ruined are far too late on that. We already got bikini tanks, roe moogles, gear from several other Final Fantasy games, a King Slime hat from Dragon Quest (or Warrior? Meh both are the same to me), turtles that fly with magical farts, and smacking monsters with moogle styled claws for Monks; Yokai-Watch themed minions and weapons seem the LEAST out of place.


I don't really see this crossover immersion breaking that much considering one can easily say that these trends of the toys and mounts came from another land, similar to how a lot of the seasonal events explain how we get certain things.

[Glasya]

"All these incredibly contrasting sci-fi looking ruins and artefacts everywhere are totally a OK because they are part of the lore, but these easily ignored optional glamour items are totally gonna ruin the game!"

oh the irony

The word you're looking for is hypocrisy.
And Allagan technology is at least part of the universe; Allagan objects are subsequently modeled, textured and rendered in a fashion that matches the rest of the game.
The YW stuff is clearly not. They all look like they were made for a completely different game and then half-assedly imported into XIV. I wouldn't be complaining (as much) if any effort at all were spent trying to make them look like objects that could exist in Eorzea, but Level-5 is too busy trying to market to us another shitty media franchise; art style and integrity be damned.