Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
It doesn't make sense when said society is friendly and yet people keep choosing to live in their backwards ways instead of advancing technologically with the rest of the world. To this day there are still people training to use muskets in Limsa when obviously superior technology and guns are widely available.

And we have Turali people developing steam trains when they have the people of solution 9 flying carriers despite people moving between the two places at will. ANY rational person would be like. You know what? Maybe we should be working on that.

But nah, they'll spend the next 10 years ignoring all the advancements in mobility in front of their faces to keep riding buffalo and making crude locomotives.

And yet somehow............... We are going to go to other worlds to developing them and restart life. But nobody is developing our own? Like hello?
It does seem like people are slow to adapt, even when it would make sense to do so. Koana’s goal early on was to introduce Sharlayan technology to Tuliyollal after all, and it wasn’t something that was just immediately accepted by everyone with open arms. In the Machinist quests we see people even afraid of technology, as the knights worry about how the introduction of firearms will affect social status as commoners can arm themselves. Outside of the lore, there probably won’t be big changes to the existing areas because this is a game where the differences to each zone over time would only ever be really minor, and combat with swords can’t just stop existing. There’s real life examples of people being slow to adopt new technologies as well.

But I’m personally not finding this game’s introduction of the “sci fi” aesthetic to be strange when considering the context. To me the main offenders are Solution 9 (from a different shard) and anything involving Loporrits (an ancient, advanced, and isolated group) so they make sense. The sci fi aesthetic can show up in other Final Fantasy games. From the ones I’ve played FF8 has Esthar, and Stranger of Paradise has the areas in its third dlc. It makes sense for someone to not like the aesthetic though since it’s so jarring compared to everything else.