Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
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.
Those other games typically have actual consequences for either the world or the main cast though, so those light hearted moments are somewhat warranted. Whereas literally nothing happens to the main cast and it hasn’t happened in so long. We have the entire moon arc basically taken up by slice of life rabbits wanting us to play dress up. This is then mimicked at the 2nd labyrinthos visit where we spend a huge chunk of time playing tour guide for a bunch of rabbits.