Crossover events and breaking immersion

[EtherRose]

I hope this a joke. You're talking about crossover events breaking "immersion" when you have the Gold Saucer which is from FF7. You have various raids from other FF games such as FF8/FF Tactics and the Nier Raid, etc. But you only talk about crossover events. What.....Idk.

[Shurrikhan]

I hope this a joke. You're talking about crossover events breaking "immersion" when you have the Gold Saucer which is from FF7. You have various raids from other FF games such as FF8/FF Tactics and the Nier Raid, etc. But you only talk about crossover events. What.....Idk.

That seems a bit disingenuous. One is reference. The other, crossover.

Gold Saucer is a casino built by an entrepreneur established among XIV characters and hailing from a city which, from the beginning, has been the base of vastly wealthy businessmen. Someone who'd never played FF7 would have no reason to expect it wasn't side-content solely for XIV and coming solely from XIV.

Leaving a giant city inside a hill that takes all of 12 seconds to fly over, using not a single established XIV character, is hardly the same thing.

Cid is a reference. Most players will know that our Cid is one of many. But he's still distinctly XIV's Cid, who was built around XIV's world specifically.

NieR is a crossover. It has no connection to XIV except in that it was tossed in there, with only the narrowest excuse of preceding plot -- we see hole, we go down hole, we see 2B butt, we follow 2B butt, something, something, city inside hole inside hill far smaller than said city.