And in 1.20b we'll have...

[Zantetsuken]

I'll use it on occasion just because the thought of rampaging through a crowd of Lalafel's bemuses me. I sincerely hope that they add a maniacal laughter emote just for it.

As for not being thematic; were shoopuf's not themeatic in X? What about the truck in VII? Not thematic? It's asinine to claim that alternate mounts are non thematic in a game's setting when the game setting allows it. Furthermore, it's stupid to require all games in the FF franchise to remain strictly alike thematically. If SE had done so, we wouldn't have had half the games we've gotten.

I can get not preferring the alternate mounts, but the frothy rants are a bit sad.

We have no indication whatsoever that Goobbue mounts were deliberately designed into either the original Tanaka vision for this game or Yoshi's 2.0 plans.

The fact that obtaining them is restricted to playing during the transitional 7th Umbral era is proof enough that they aren't.

Rather, this is apparently is just cheap red meat to be thrown at the most self-entitled and immature portion of the player base to shut them up while they wait for 2.0 or to give them an e-peen boost when it 2.0 does launch.

There is no comparison to Shoopuf's, Trucks in VIII, or Shiva Motorcycles in FFXIII (as lame as some of those ideas were). Because each of those elements was specifically designed for those games -- not shoe-horned in at the last minute.

It's really a shame because these animations for riding monsters should be used for a future Beastmaster Job, not squandered as an obnoxious trinket for the game's attention-whore population to spam.

That said, if Yoshi-P finds a way to do this where it actually makes sense in the game, and also limits their use, I'll eat my words.