Weather effects and our characters

[Kosmos992k]

So, in a game where one of the major elements is to go around the world slaughtering critters of all sorts, you'd prefer we come through the other side of the battlefield covered in rainbows and leprechaun gold? This isn't My Little Pony Online; give us some blood!

Here's your answer, if you want blood spattered corpses and gore, go find another game.

One of the things that I *love* about this game is that there is no blood. If I wanted gritty realism, soaked in blood and other viscera I could select almost any one of the major RPGs around. For me, the relative (or even absolute) lack of blood and gore in JRPGs has always been a selling point, and Final Fantasy is no exception to that.

No, this isn't My little Pony, it's Final [b]FANTASY[B], remember that please. As has been pointed out, FF games rarely (if ever) have blood at all except in cutscenes, and even then there is generally some restraint shown. Blood effects in this game would just not fit the mood at all, nor would it fit with the established conventions of being an FF game. If blood effects started appearing and blood soaked corpses dotted the floor or landscape wherever we were and we ourselves were covered in blood and gore, this would not be the game that it is.

Frankly, this is a game I play to enjoy, not to be sickened by the sight of blood and other assorted gore flying across the screen every time I hit something. I play this game as an escape from the crap that is reality, bringing the gritty reality of bloodshed to the game really destroys that aspect of escapism for me. For all those crying immersion, I'll counter with escapism and fantasy.

Personally I think the lack of blood in the game reinforces the concept that this is in fact a game that we play for run and to escape the real world. I doubt I am alone in these views.

If SE ever did implement blood and gore in this game, I think you would see one hell of a lot of players leaving the game almost literally overnight.

Addendum.
FF games (and most JRPGs) have always had a certain aesthetic. Their worlds, gear, and characters are clean, well designed, good looking, pretty, cute and/or handsome. The games are fantasy, we use magic, dead monsters fade from view in seconds. In this type of aesthetic and game play, blood and gore has no place, IMHO.

[Klamor]

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I see you seem to be a bit hostile with your opinions.

If I have to go find another game because I don't mind seeing blood, why shouldn't you do the same if they decide to implement it? Besides, it's not like the games that do show blood don't have an option to turn it off. Maybe you should stop being so sensitive about everything. lmao

[kog985]

Sorry but I cannot stop laughing at this.

One of the things that I *love* about this game is that there is no blood.

Addendum.
FF games (and most JRPGs) have always had a certain aesthetic. Their worlds, gear, and characters are clean, well designed, good looking, pretty, cute and/or handsome. The games are fantasy, we use magic, dead monsters fade from view in seconds. In this type of aesthetic and game play, blood and gore has no place, IMHO.

[Kurogaea]

So, in a game where one of the major elements is to go around the world slaughtering critters of all sorts, you'd prefer we come through the other side of the battlefield covered in rainbows and leprechaun gold? This isn't My Little Pony Online; give us some blood!

Game would probably be rated M at that point. Not sure how the esrb works but yeah...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Game would probably be rated M at that point. Not sure how the esrb works but yeah...

Excess blood is usually what pushes a game to an M rating. I remember reading how Tomb Raider Anniversary had to basically scrap most of its blood in order to keep the game rated T. I'm sure Square wants to keep the game as accessible as possible, so they wouldn't be pushing the ratings for the sake of bloody immersion.

[RiceisNice]

..weren't an issue when they gave us the wet effect of rain, don't see it being an issue with any other kind of weather effect. Though... I have to question the want of blood spray. That seems a little morbid.

PS3 actually doesn't have wet water effects last I checked.

[FoxyAreku]

Reactions to weather would be nice. Shivering in snow, sweating in the thanalan desert, I'd like that anyway.

[Canadane]

I have to question the want of blood spray. That seems a little morbid.

As a warrior main, nothing would please me more to see it in there.
Giving Bloodbath a new meaning.

[Gaiussenpai]

I like the monster gunk part and maybe have your character have a disgusted expression :3

[Riardon]

PS3 limitations. For almost everything. This and the limited budget Yoshi has holds the game back both graphically and gameplay. We will start seeing cooler thing once the archaic prehistoric relic PS3 will be dropped once and for all.