Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
And I've said before, I think they really messed up by referencing "modern Earth tech" for Garlemald, especially those ugly boxy cars that look like they've made a 3D model of how a two-year-old draws a car. We've seen Garlean tech before that – the magitek armours and flying juggernauts with their whimsical winged bipedal designs and ornate details. Garlemald citizen tech should be based on those designs, not turning to a different source entirely.
I actually didn't overly mind the cars, because they do look like kinda crappy early twentieth century cars--or, perhaps more pointedly, how anime tends to draw early 20th century cars. Those are some Fullmetal Alchemist or JoJo Part 2-style boltbuckets right there. It's not fancy or particularly interesting, but I feel like if they designed a fully detailed Garlean car then we'd want to see them use it, and they had no intention of it being more than a piece of scenery. One of those funny instances where they're sorta forced to underdesign a new setting element.

And... honestly, I don't think Stormblood was all it could've been, either--it's still pretty good at points (mostly in the back end), but it'd be the hardest one to try to 'fix', and ultimately I think Bozja hit its goals better. But like I said, I'm not really interested in 'Stormblood, Take Three'. I wanted something new from Garlemald, and that's what I got.