Quote Originally Posted by Silverquick View Post
My only real concern with the expansion is that it really doesn't feel very Final Fantasy-ish.

Both ARR and Heavenward still felt very FF style...

The SB expansion from what I see, just really doesn't.

I am curious about the Kagane area and the storyline... but the Al Amigo portion just really doesn't interest me that much anymore. After Ilberd's Antics during ARR and Heavensward... I lost a lot of sympathy for the Al Amigo storyline... at this point I'm more along the lines of they deserved what they got.

While I am curious about the Kugane area and the Storyline there... at present it really just doesn't feel very Final Fantasy-ish.
Nah.

The initial V1.0 of the game and V2.0 parts of the game borrows heavily from FF6. The core plot of all FF games is:
1. 4 Gems (Fire, Earth, Wind, Water)
2. Warrior of Light
3. Party of Rebels (more prevalent in FF4 and later)
4. Generally multiple "worlds" or dimensions exist. FF4 had the moon, FF5 had a parallel world that fused with the main world, FF6 had the world of Ruin, FF7 had a bunch of things prior to the world being open, FF8 had time travel, X had Zanarkand, XIII had Cocoon and Gran Pulse, etc.

So I think Ironicly, the change from V1.0 to V2.0 covers the subtext of point 4 easily. If you visit the Ishgard areas in V1.0 they were not frozen wastelands.

Point 1 is often reflected in Asian mythology, so that's pretty obvious.

The Party of Rebels was a core point of FF4,5,6,7,8,9 and X

With FFXIV v3.0 we finally got to see what happened to Ishgard and got some lore for the Eorzea land that was primarily Elezen before the arrivals of other races.

With V4.0 I suspect we will find Ala Mhigo (where the Hyur Highlander come from) under the same kind of conditions of FF6's South Figaro.

From the sounds of things, Kugane, sounds like Japan on a smaller scale. It also likely fits the theme of a city-state that nobody has managed to conquer.