Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Given how closely that ties to the star creature of XIV's launch cinematic and who takes reference from the very area ARR all begins (Carteneu Flats or however it's spelled)... that hardly makes Omega Weapon as distant from XIV's world and story as, say, the NieR crossover.

And that's not even because it's NieR or because it's got the bosses and aesthetics and characters it does, it's just because it has nearly zero explanation or fit for having ended up in the XIV world. Had we just discovered the city it out in the Light Waste in a temporal pocket caused by some antipolar reaction whatchamahavit to Cid and the CE's breaking time where it briefly shows the distant future of the First Shard after the fall of humanity, or whatever else it might take to actually make its place in XIV's story compelling, there'd be no issue.

But there wasn't. We just meet some brats, go down a mine, blow up some doors, and discover a city down there because... why? and how?... Who knows.
You're kinda jumping the gun a lil too though, we literally don't have the full story. In fact, what we have so far is literally "we dunno anything that's going on but we need to find out". I don't find it that hard to believe on a separate world of existence beyond our own plane that we find ancient mechanical constructs and designs hidden beneath the planet in some fashion. Heck, if we can act like the crystal tower is just there in Mor Dhona for a while until you do the raid and realize there's actually an entire society and so on in there... Who says there can't be a locked away chamber on the First that's been dormant for centuries and is awakening because- TO BE CONTINUED.

Quote Originally Posted by monk-dps View Post
lol yeah I think I missed the edits and stuff.. but yes we're on the same page
Saw that last post, and I agree entirely. People forget FF as a series has involved both fantasy and sci-fi in a shared environment.