Can 7.0 focus on a storyline without the philosophizing

[Striker44]

Zeromus was literally pulled out of nowhere for the sole reason of "FFIV did it and it's the FFIV expansion". I'm not sure where the writers got the idea that there are supposed to be FF_ expansions that copy everything from the source material, but they've been doing it a lot in Endwalker, especially in 6.x

They've been doing it a lot in every expansion (and it's been well-received by the general fanbase), so I'm not sure why you're surprised they're continuing with it in FFIV.

ARR has the Garlean Empire and Magitek, which is about as close as you can get to "The Empire" and...well...magitek...from FFVI. Not to mention the entire nation of Doma and the samurai Hien being central to SB (Hien being Cyan/Kaien's son from FFVI).

HW featured even more of FFVI with the Warring Triad ripped straight from that game.

SB had the Omega raids, which just straight up took various bosses from FFV and FFVI along with Chaos from FFI with no real "story" to them whatsoever as pure, awesome fanservice (Omega and Shinryu for that matter themselves being from FFV).

Anyone who's followed FFXIV was frankly expecting Zeromus to make an appearance, and I for one am quite pleased with it

[AwesomeJr44]

They've been doing it a lot in every expansion (and it's been well-received by the general fanbase), so I'm not sure why you're surprised they're continuing with it in FFIV.

ARR has the Garlean Empire and Magitek, which is about as close as you can get to "The Empire" and...well...magitek...from FFVI. Not to mention the entire nation of Doma and the samurai Hien being central to SB (Hien being Cyan/Kaien's son from FFVI).

HW featured even more of FFVI with the Warring Triad ripped straight from that game.

SB had the Omega raids, which just straight up took various bosses from FFV and FFVI along with Chaos from FFI with no real "story" to them whatsoever as pure, awesome fanservice (Omega and Shinryu for that matter themselves being from FFV).

Anyone who's followed FFXIV was frankly expecting Zeromus to make an appearance, and I for one am quite pleased with it

References and copy pasting aren't the same thing.