My problem with solution 9 - spoiler

[Ath192]

I mean, I agree that it doesn't fit with medieval fantasy, but nor does: Space ships flying across the galaxy, Omicrons and omega and level checkers, Lopporits (and moon hopper/traveling supporter mounts), Nier raids, Rolling Tankard, Ozma, Garleans (bikes, construct bosses, gobwalker, magitek claw) and Garlemald's cars and roads, Allagan stuff like Azys Lla and logistics node, Magitek (like FF15 car, manacutter), Skyslipper, the UFO mount.

At this point we just have to accept that SE feels they can do any genre - even sci fi or cyberpunk, and make it feel like fantasy still. After all, they did sci fi stuff in Endwalker and yet it felt like fantasy in the way they did it. Which is impressive to pull off actually.

You know, in part I agree, but in part I don't. I don't think everything technology wise they've tried has landed successfully, but you are right, we just have to accept it because what else are we going to do, its just one of the low points of the game, and thus why Solution 9 art style is a low point of dawntrail for me.

The world of FFXIV already struggles with timelines and many other issues so this just adds to it. One of the users in the first page had it right, like the game is fun but it's just not immersive anymore. You just have to accept that a lot of things don't make sense anymore as a player.

[Jeeqbit]

Solution 9 art style is a low point of dawntrail for me.

Well at the end of the day, you can enjoy a game and focus on what you enjoy about it or you can latch onto negatives and try to think of everything negatively. Same effort except one probably makes you happier.

That's always been true of MMORPGs actually. They are never perfect. But if you try to find positives or positive ways of thinking about it, it ends up better than drowning in negative and bitter feelings.

One of the users in the first page had it right, like the game is fun but it's just not immersive anymore. You just have to accept that a lot of things don't make sense anymore as a player.

It's never felt like it ever has really. Ever since I started the game, dungeons just had loads of chimeras, hydras, dragons and other legendary creatures excessively placed in them without much explanation or where it was a big stretch, out of what felt like a desperate attempt to convince us it was a fantasy game.

But what else were they going to do to convince us it was a fantasy game when the game was new and lacking content. All they could really do is just make a start at placing fantasy creatures as many places as they could I guess.

It's not all bad though. The story is good, and widely praised, so something came out of it. But nothing's perfect.

And to be fair, technology has always been part of many FF games, like FF7, FF8, FF15, all the FF games that involve transcending their own world somehow, etc. I am sure they will work Solution Nine into feeling magical or like Alice in Wonderland somehow, despite the technology lol, by putting the focus on the fantasy elements like magic, emotion, feeling, and leaving the technology as a mere background or vessel for magic.

To be honest, I can already see how they are achieving it with the Launch Trailer. How they work that technology into lots of emotion, history, mysteries and hidden secrets. They just know how to make it work somehow.