Day and Night: The strange decision devs make

[Iscah]

There are some cutscenes that do ignore the day/night cycle and show a fixed time-of-day where it’s critical for storytelling. They’re rare, but they do happen. eg. the scene after the Vault, like the dungeon itself, is always in that eerie sunset light. Or the scene where your group is camping before visiting Zenith, or later in post-HW where you and Alisaie are looking up at the stars - those need to be forced night scenes or they don’t make sense!

As mentioned earlier, the in-game clock actually freezes at 4:30 pm while you’re waiting to enter the Royal Menagerie and complete Stormblood - at least it did for me, waiting on the rooftop garden rather than leaving to do other things while I waited. It just remains permanently in that golden afternoon light.