Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
To be fair, Garlemald was very weird. Like, for one… The presence of semi modern cars, in a city that’s like…5 blocks across, with barely any road infrastructure outside of the city is really really off. I get scale is a thing, and “well there’s more city off camera” but still… cars are primarily to go between locales. Where is the highway going out of Garlemald?
All of the cars found in Garlemald and the Novus D minion look like Japanese kei cars from the 50s/60s era or older European people’s cars, neither of which are really meant for highway travel and are designed for city driving. Considering that monsters are a thing that exists, the winter climate is extremely hostile, and there’s not exactly anywhere to drive to that’s close, it would be too dangerous and too expensive to drive anywhere far away anyway.

What we see is not the whole city of Garlemald because this is a video game and it’s scaled way down. Just like how Limsa Lominsa is much larger in its artwork than what we can play in. Even the rare cutscenes that take place in Garlemald before it’s blown up show it as much larger than what we later see and as a proper large city.