Congratulations on FF16 being a huge success

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

While Type-0 and maybe FF7 remake had some, I was more referring to seeing peoples' throats cut, heads banged in and cut off, and blood spurting after getting crushed by a rock as being things that I wasn't aware was ever actually shown (not implied or guessed at) in a Final Fantasy game.

Excessive gore and foul language diminishes the "dark theme" in story telling and just makes it look more edgy rather than dark.

Older FF games has already touched on dark subjects like chemical warfare, genocide, human experimentation, fates worse than death, child/teen student soldiers, the tragedies of war etc.

[Mosha]

Excessive gore and foul language diminishes the "dark theme" in story telling and just makes it look more edgy rather than dark.

I wouldn't really call it excessive, the reality is people using foul language in stressful situations isn't uncommon nor infrequent and I think the entertainment industry has almost sanitized what combat looks like, I'm reminded of when Saving Private Ryan came out and people being shocked at how gorey the Omaha beach scene was.