The Heart of Sabik

[Cilia]

Glad they finally tied up that loose end, but annoyed they had to shamelessly throw Ivalice fanservice into a raid series that's supposed to be homage to II.

Other than that, no comment.

[Turnintino]

Glad they finally tied up that loose end, but annoyed they had to shamelessly throw Ivalice fanservice into a raid series that's supposed to be homage to II.

I don't know if I'd describe it as shameless, exactly, when it might've been stranger not to acknowledge the connection at all, since the revelation in ShB that the Heart was auracite all along. Auracite's inexorable connection to the Ivalice content kind of necessitates its mention at this point, imo.

(This is not me saying, "so you have to like it!" for the record lol.)

That said, I don't feel the Heart's inclusion added anything at all to Panda's story, but then... Idk, the whole climax felt kind of lackluster to me in general. Its whole premise made it difficult to care very much without the actual characters we'd made the journey with up to that point.

[Cleretic]

since the revelation in ShB that the Heart was auracite all along.

Reminder: this wasn't a revelation then either, since the original Japanese name for the thing was 'Black Auracite Sabik'. (I'm not sure what other languages called it, but what I know about the translation process says they probably derived their names from the Japanese version too.)

I've been curious for ages if this was even a 'mystery' to the Japanese community, since they've had it pretty clearly named the entire time.