Quote Originally Posted by ReynTime View Post
The moment they had to create their own stories from scratch (or almost from scratch in case of this void mini saga) they show pure bog-standard shounen anime mediocrity coated in lazy fanservice.
If XIV is one big fan service nostalgia game, I hope they move on from I-VI. The most we got from VII is the Weapon series albeit redesigned a lot compared to the source material. Meanwhile IV nostalgia is spread over the entire Endwalker expansion and it brought along several tracks of its OST straight up unchanged, probably because Soken was busy on XVI.

They must be running out of good characters to reuse from I-VI at this point. World of Final Fantasy would have been a suitable alternative title for FF XIV if it's going to be a nostalgia ride of the entire series. But it certainly wasn't planned to be anything like that when Tanaka started it. The original game without all the cameos was going to be a really solid original FF world in its own right.