Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
You are correct, of course. It was an one-off thing.

Yet it was unnecessary.

The point still stands: why are we portraying characters in different lights and showing off how over the top and expressive they can be when normally they're rather sober?

I understand it was just a singular note to display why Y'shtola was so uncomfortable, and how her younger self would act. Yet... it just doesn't fit the game? And now they're forcing these things into the game to make future additions fit. A sort of precedent case. But this caters to... who exactly? The game worked just fine without these things, I fail to see why Endwalker decided to double down on them.

Amusing, sure. But... If you fridge logic it, it's like... Why??

They could honestly use the resources they spend on these animations and effects for the characters and improve other things about the game, but that's a can of worms and a half, is it not?
I suspect this is supposed to cater to the Twitter fans who often portray their wols and Scions doing stuff like this. However, despite how loud they are I don't believe for a second that pandering to them is in the game's best interest, nor that they represent any sort of majority. FFXIV's core base is fantasy fans. That means give us a cast full of heroes we can get excited about that have unique characteristics to them - not the same character copypasted 7 times in different outfits. Adding jokes in poor taste and the other stuff we saw in Endwalker isn't conducive to that.

It's not an exaggeration when I say that the Scions are the worst Final Fantasy party in the entire franchise. I fully believe this. I would rather travel alone than be saddled with the likes of G'raha Tia and Y'shtola. Even Scions fans have reached the point where they realize that keeping characters around for longer than is reasonable doesn't represent anything good for the story. We need better and more unique characters. A brash, rough around the edges knight who likes drinking like Branden. A womanizing Bard or Rogue like Thancred in ARR, or magic users with tragic pasts and fates like Terra Brandford, Celes Chere, Yuna, and so on. Not more scholars from the same handful of races.

Side note, among further depictions of the Ancients and the events leading up to the Sundering, animation resources should probably be focused on female Hrothgar. Would love an Elezen animation rework at some point as well, practically no one is satisfied with the way they move and the person responsible for the state of them did not stay on the FFXIV team for long if what I heard is true.