Time Travel and you

[Lusavari]

Even Coerthas might not escape this - "don't you know? It has always snowed in Coerthas."

Several NPCs mention that the snow was brought about by the calamity though. While I agree with your point past versions would be based on ARR zones, I think the aesthetics would be at least brought back to the original states. Plus it would be a good excuse to implement the original zone themes...

Either way, Time travel is such a common theme of Final Fantasy that the first game's story was about ending a time loop by going back 2000 years in the Temple of Fiends to defeat Garland a second time in the form of Chaos. III featured frozen time, VIII was all about Ultimecia manipulating the events of the past to compress all time with Squall and Co. needing to go to the future... IX had pseudo-time travel in that Memoria was a projection of the planets memories, and the party had to view those while fighting to Kuja... Then there's XIII-2 and XIII-LR.... And of course.... XI and the Shadow Reign period.

[CyrusArjuna]

I do hope if we have some sort of time travel expansion/raid/whatever it's more in line with what Memoria was - Hydaelyn's memories that we're viewing for whatever reason. It would both be a callback to FF9 (which is one of my favorites in the series) plus it would actually fit in the story - us using the Echo to see the memories.

[Gemma]

It would still be oh so wonderful

Yeah sometimes I find myself missing 1.0 maps, I spent so much times in Coerthas doing botany & listening to the music. So I was definitely sad when SE decided to make Coerthas the snowy area considering how beautiful it was in 1.0. Also I loved the sense of danger each zone had, where it actually felt like a big dangerous world.

But sadly I highly doubt SE will ever let us truly "go back in time" and see it again, & like others have said when we do see it it will probably just be in the Echo.

[Shurrikhan]

We still have at least a couple opportunities to bring out other possibilities for Coerthas. I just hope at least one of those manages to give the same great stuff that the original did.

[MaikoRaines]

I do remember travelling to Coerthas way back in the day as a lowbie. Avoiding strong monsters and checking out the scenery was both dangerous and amazing.

[Rocl]

We still have at least a couple opportunities to bring out other possibilities for Coerthas. I just hope at least one of those manages to give the same great stuff that the original did.

Canonically, Eastern Coerthas shouldn't be as snow covered as the rest of it. When we visit the Howling Eye aboard the Enterprise, we visit an area very similar to 1.0's Coerthas. At least, this is what I tell myself whenever I hear "Unspoken" crop up on my playlist...

[Shurrikhan]

Canonically, Eastern Coerthas shouldn't be as snow covered as the rest of it. When we visit the Howling Eye aboard the Enterprise, we visit an area very similar to 1.0's Coerthas. At least, this is what I tell myself whenever I hear "Unspoken" crop up on my playlist...

Exactly the same here... I'm just really sad that the same hope doesn't exist for the misty west-by-southwestern river areas of the Shroud as well... since they went and turned them into barren crags, with little chance or reason at this point to retcon that choice. (To be clear, I don't mind the crags, I just wish they hadn't assigned to them the name of some of my favorite areas with zero connection to its former incarnation, e.g. Sorrel Havens.) We might one day end up with a revised and even improved Turning Leaf, though... Or, so I will dream.