Quote Originally Posted by IgnisFatuus View Post
a lot of the art assets are ripped right out of 1.0, including "recent" content. i expect a drop of "new content" once they run out of stuff to reimplement. but that might actually be when the expansion hits.
Don't forget XI, XII and XIII too and I'm not talking about stuff that uses reference designs from XI and updates them with more detail like Goobbues or Adamantoises which is fine, they're straight off ripped from those games as is. Even stuff like Dullahans, Ziz or those Meracydia dragons were already in the 1.0 DATs, only a really small handful of enemies were created entirely from scratch for ARR. Going into Second Coil and seeing Rafflesia is just an oversized neon Ochu and The Avatar is an interesting take on Treants but it's still using their same base rig and some animations is kinda disappointing.

I'm sure I've said this before, recolors are practically a staple of Final Fantasy but at least they used to come up with unique designs for traditional monsters in each game and also unique bosses, using enemies as is without changing their designs is more of a DQ thing which is no surprise given the circumstances really.