Quote Originally Posted by NekoMataMata View Post
To be fair people have been expecting Meracydia since it was one of the places mentioned by Emet at the end of EW.


"What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs?"

From what I vaguely remember, Meracydia should be mostly wasteland with a few scattered civilizations, who are rather hostile to outsiders. The way Emet says it though it does suggest that something might be going on there. I don't know what could though.
Agreed that Meracydia is next, Yoshi delayed the game 2 weeks before the launch of EW to make sure Emet-Selch gave us that information so I give us 99% odds of going there. As to how it looks, if you look at the continent from the Moon, you will see that a few areas along the coast are green, the rest are desert or very close to that. Its quite similar to Australia and New Zealand so, expect a lot to be drawn from those locations. Also consider that the Mad Max films came from Australia so I also agree that we should see a post-apocalyptic setting with some areas that have recovered but otherwise lots of ruins.