This Little Ladies Day felt off to me. I feel it needs a new perspective.

[Eloah]

Okay so, I did this years event, and it was decent but felt off to me. It wasn't bad but it felt too... female centric, as odd as that sounds.

Okay, so I'll explain, since I know Little Ladies Day is supposed to be about the "ladies". But past event's have done a nice job of making the event feel all inclusive for both males and females. Giving just as much focus on the Seneshals and their devotion to their ladies. But I felt this event glossed over that.

The event itself was fine, until near the end. I know the event was about the two girls and their friendship, and that was fine. But the event itself takes place in a children's ward with at least one prominent hyuran male child. And the event mentions the celebration is for all of the children. However, when it came time for the surprise for the children, I was a bit hurt to find out the boy(s) got nothing. I was expecting them to get either the monocle to be mini-senechal or the flowers like the girls, since it's not gender locked, but nothing, he isn't even in the cutscene past the children's initial return.

If there were no male children in the initial quest it might of felt different. The repeatable quest, however, does give the right feeling, with the elezen boy from a previous christmas event, acting as a Senechal. But it just feels to me like they dropped the ball a little. If it was adults it might of felt different. But to me it sorta felt like when you don't get a child a gift at the christmas party, just because they aren't part of your family, even though you know they will be there. Sorry a bit of person experience there.

I know I'm probably being overly critical over a silly event quest, but I just thought I'd share my thoughts and ask what others thought as well. I mean it's a game and these are fictional people, but if this was real, that would of been a rather insensitive thing to do in my opinion.

I personally still hope for the day when there is a Little Ladies Day event focusing on a lady or ladies who want help repaying their Senechal(s). My thought is a group of sisters who wanna get something for their younger brother who always dotes on them. Meanwhile, you keep the brother occupied with finding the perfect gift for his sisters since they are always so kind to him. It would show that this event may be called Little Ladies Day, but is really about both parties acting out their affection for the other.

[DPZ2]

It it helps, consider that this is not a Western-oriented event.

It is loosely based on Hinamatsuri ("Girls' Day"), which occurs at this time of year.

And yes, there was a separate "Boys' Day'" as counterpart to Hinamatsuri. The name got changed to Children's Day a bit after the Second World War.

[Sated]

I felt the same for a moment but the end kind of made me realize they were all participating anyway when one of the boys eagerly took on the task of helping coordinate more visitors.
They all got to see the visitors, they all got to enjoy the decorations, and the only difference was that the girls wore flowers in their hair.

We get to keep ours as a player for glam reasons but realistically these will wilt in a few days, it's not like they got a new bike while the boys got nothing. If one of the boys expressed an interest in having flowers in his hair and didn't get any then I'd have some feelings about it but otherwise this didn't feel unfair or off to me.

[Crushnight]

Weren't the only one to feel it, but I decided to look at it from an in game perspective where this is a yearly event where males give gifts(physical/hard work etc) to females so that all the girls get a present while boys wouldn't would just be par for the course of the holiday.

Though if it were like rl children, bet
my gloriously non existent rump that boy be demanding something too XD

[Eloah]

Weren't the only one to feel it, but I decided to look at it from an in game perspective where this is a yearly event where males give gifts(physical/hard work etc) to females so that all the girls get a present while boys wouldn't would just be par for the course of the holiday.

Though if it were like rl children, bet
my gloriously non existent rump that boy be demanding something too XD

Yeah, I'm not losing sleep over it, was just wondering if I was alone in my thinking. Glad to see I wasn't. I know it's based on Girls' Day, but it never felt "just for girls" until this year. Makes me wonder though, why Boys' Day isn't a thing in the game?

[DrWho2010]

Yeah, I'm not losing sleep over it, was just wondering if I was alone in my thinking. Glad to see I wasn't. I know it's based on Girls' Day, but it never felt "just for girls" until this year. Makes me wonder though, why Boys' Day isn't a thing in the game?

japan doesn't have a "boys day" anymore - it was changed to "Children's day". these days it falls too soon after Hatching-tide (Easter) and Gold Saucer's "Make it Rain" events. there's not really any room for it.

[SuperZay]

They need a child version of lalafells too, because it was hard to tell if Momoro was an adult or not. I guess not because it's children hospital, but adult would look the same anyway.

[Khalithar]

Since we have Little Ladies' Day. I suggest a new holiday: Large Lad's Day.

[ElazulHP]

Little LADIES Day too female centric you say? lol

[hynaku]

Feels off to me not having the 3 songbird dancers in it that's been in them all.