Quote Originally Posted by Brightamethyst View Post
It was tied to vistas LONG before Leap of Faith came around.
They started jump puzzles on vistas with HW IIRC with the CWH bridge. They just doubled down in SB. But even back when Gold Saucer came out I remember some GATE that did involve some form of jumping. Just not necessarily an entire puzzle. I wish they had never implemented them for sightseeing at all and kept that sort of thing in GC where they can and do all sorts of different challenges. The jumps onto things like the lamppost in Ul'Dah for ARR sightseeing you can eventually line up and get. It's not the fine control you need for a jumping puzzle. And they're easy to retry. So those weren't too bad and you could keep at it until you got it. It was a decent challenge. But as others have mentioned, controls and hitboxes for jumping puzzles in this game are really janky. It's not designed for platforming. So it makes those much more of a chore than fun to do like the ARR ones.