I’ve been playing since 1.0 beta, am a super big lore nerd and have both of the books, and think that anyone complaining about aesthetics or crossovers needs to get over themselves.

Besides the fact that they completely changed the aesthetics from 1.0 to ARR, they’ve been doing wonky crossovers from the very beginning and this isn’t new. We had Cocoon machina-behemoths in Lightning’s crossover (long before they reused the models as “Allagan behemoths”), Dragon Quest golems, a giant taru taru, and Yokai Watch. This game is an MMO theme park and it was established back in year 1 of ARR with the Dragon Quest crossover that there will be non-FF crossovers.

We’re only 1 raid into NieR. There’s plenty of time for them to explain what’s going on later. And how are people angry about Noctis’ car or 2B when we also have Titan riding an ATV?