Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Daralii]

In all honesty I don't know why you'd ever expect a graphic depiction in this game and expansion (the few times we get anything it's for unique cases, not a side quest to a sidequest in all but name), but ...

I think the mistake was bringing attention to it at all. If the guy was shot with normal bullets, fell down, groaned for a while and got back up because he's wearing armour no one would've batted an eye. Might even have made the kid look cooler since he's in a tank top iirc?

Why are people settling things with gun duels at all? Because it's a western reference? I can suspend my disbelief when a beast tribe does something weird, but when it's all humanoids going "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT, MIGHT MAKES RIGHT" and we go along with it it just seems cringe. Even the Scions/Player only go that once nothing else has worked.

Emet's first appearance in Stormblood had him get shot dead with a closeup on his corpse's face, and the post-Elpis cutscene with Venat had her caked in blood. They can't have a character collapsing in a pool of their own blood for age rating reasons, but they didn't shy away from pushing what they could get away with either. A duel using real bullets, someone taking one, and having some red around the wound and on the ground wouldn't be at odds with how things were in the past.

[SteakDriven]

Gah. Japan's content restriction laws are even worse than America's nowadays. The entire Diet needs to be replaced with people who actually enjoy life.

[LisseyCrowe]

Emet's first appearance in Stormblood had him get shot dead with a closeup on his corpse's face, and the post-Elpis cutscene with Venat had her caked in blood. They can't have a character collapsing in a pool of their own blood for age rating reasons, but they didn't shy away from pushing what they could get away with either. A duel using real bullets, someone taking one, and having some red around the wound and on the ground wouldn't be at odds with how things were in the past.

And those are important scenes, which means they can go against their usual rule of no blood and gore because it's paramount to show it.

This is a dumb scene in yeehaw town about comically evil NPC #3 who minutes before had to run from his base because of burning dinosaur poop pheromones, in an expansion that wants to advertise itself as a cheery vacation and, up to this point, was and is still presenting itself as so. You can't casually turn this scene into a gory execution without rewriting the entire area if not Dawntrail as a whole.

I guess my point is it's not worth talking about it on it's own, when the entirety of Dawntrail is soft. It would be incredibly poor writing for just this one case not to be. Now if we wanna talk about that softness, hell yeah. But maybe it deserves it's own topic. To bring it back to our Lord and Savior Wuk herself, this rubber bullet situation is the equivalent of saying she ruined Dawntrail because the "dropped Taco scene during the intro was forced and stupid" when we all agree it's the least of our worries.