A game for 4 year olds

[MikkoAkure]

With the mother of one of the playable characters dying halfway through the intro I would have certainly written it off as too dark for the current FFXIV playerbase, who has been enthralled by the likes of Ameliance.

You mean the same game where a major character has a chocobo chick that lives in his afro? And talks to and is understood by the guy whose hair she lives in? And takes out a psicom soldier? And also somehow grows up to become a time-traveling fan-service human woman named “Chocolina” in the sequel?

All FF games have light-hearted elements alongside dark elements. Ahead of its release, FFXV was touted as “the darkest FF” but we still had things like Kenny Crow and goofy interactions between the main characters.

FFXIV similarly has light and dark elements and some stuff in EW is darker than the game has gone before, like a child getting turned into a monster that can never enter the afterlife in front of his dad and then getting stepped on by a larger monster. Or a mother carrying her baby dying on screen and later the baby showing signs of beginning to turn into a monster before being saved.

As an MMO meant to have a longer shelf life than a single-player game, it’s going to have to have more of a balance if it’s meant to cast its net at a wider playerbase and retain them longer. A game where only dark and bad stuff happens is just going to wear most people down over time and care less and less about the story if we never get a break or a win.

The game is not meant to target specifically you. Get over yourself.

FFX - Tidus, prior to the option to revive him in FFX-2 before no doubt Mikko will try and write a whole other essay about how at the time it was canon that he was going to come back to life!! It wasn't. And anyone who tries to claim that it was is similarly disingenuous.

Dude. No essay necessary. He’s right there at the end of the credits. I said as much in another thread and that wasn’t an essay either.