Thoughts on the new street attire.

[Kolsykol]

to be fair its not that hard to understand why people don't like this stuff. If you come from more standard fantasy stuff to FF, its easy to look at this and think its dumb. I never played any other FF before getting into this, so it took some time getting used to, But I learned to just roll with it and have fun.

its like when you go from a place like Gridania where you got a fairly standard elf'y town with nature, bows and old style clothing, to stuff like Garlemald with cars, guns and high techology, its kinda hard to not ask the question of why most people are still using bows and axes while looking like mediveal peasants.

the game is so all over the place with tone, setting and style, Its kinda wierd at first, but as I understand it, thats just how FF works.
You have to learn to just roll with it, and accept that anything goes in this game. doesn't mean you have to like it, but that's just how it is.

The way I sorta interpret it is that technology is a way of basically achieving the same thing but without having to use magic ( because Garleans are incapable of it ).
It's not like people are just using bows, people are using magically amplified bows and are throwing explosions around and swinging their axe into an explosive fiery inferno.

I think magic is both a blessing and a curse, it's a blessing in the sense that it can do a lot of stuff but I also think it'd be kinda like a curse because it'd disincentivize people to really try as hard to come up with new solutions to problems that doesn't rely on magic.
The Harry Potter setting kinda has this thing going on too, the magic world is rly backwards and still living in the past compared to the outside world.
Because they just use magic for everything, they don't need to use machinery in most cases.

I don't really think it's necessarily a tone issue with FF, I think it's more that people have fairly rigid expectations of medieval fantasy imho.
It's the same with stuff like realism, people have extremely narrow views on what is and isn't '' realistic '' or '' practical '' with armor for example and it usually just boils down to '' is it historical or not '' as if just because our ancestors didn't do something it means they didn't because it'd be useless or something.
Or like it'd just stop being hardened steel and physics stopped being physics just because it doesn't align with what our ancestors did.

Edit: Also there has essentially been multiple apocalyptic events that brought down the greatest empires and set the world back.
The Allegans for example were highly advanced but their technology was just kinda lost and it set people back again and sorta restarted everything.
And they also had Emet working behind the scenes sorta pushing them along.

The Garlean empire also researched these societies they looked for past technology and built on it ( as far as I remember one of the Alliance Raids in SB had a storyline for this ).
If anything it's kinda just Eorzeans being backwards and too relient on magic to really adopt and push for new technology as hard.

I actually think that Thancred is a fairly good example of this.
He picked up the gunblade because he became incapable of using magic, he wasn't using it before and if it was just that much better I think he would've.
Okay so he wouldn't because Gunbreaker wasn't out by then lol, but I still think you'd see more Eorzeans with gunblades if they were just so much better especially as they confiscated weapons and I am pretty sure Cid and company would be happy to build them if that was the case.
Heck Thancred even needs help with the ammo.