Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
now it's straight up starting to feel like the kiddie pool version of FF titles.
Can't really agree with this, either. FFXIV's humor doesn't land with me, true, but I hardly found that uncharacteristic for the series. Final Fantasy humor has rarely ever been high-brow or sophisticated. FFVII did a whole comedy routine based on Cloud bathing with a bunch of oiled-up muscleheads and being picked by the resident r--ist as his toy for the night. FFIX has a segment where you play Red-Light-Green-Light as a frog.

To be frank, the one FF game where the humor was mostly on-the-mark for me was FFXV. (A large chunk of that was Ardyn, but there were funny interactions between the main heroes as well.)

I guess FFXIV's "crime" here, as it were, is that everything is so padded and stretched out that when a joke "Doesn't Land", you have to watch the plane crashing in slllllloooooooooowww motion. Whereas most prior examples in the series just ripped the bandaid off quick.