Quote Originally Posted by Mael-bess View Post
You know what's also common with all those other FF titles except FFXIV? Summons were always massive, threatening entities, that you call once in a while to destroy your enemies. Not pokemon versions of them that you have constantly by your side in battle.
Doesn't matter how you slice it, XIV's SMN still fulfills the criteria off the fact that, like the others before it, they summon things. Whether it's screen-filling size avatars or otherwise is irrelevant. Your dislike of the XIV SMN doesn't mean it's not a SMN.