Dawntrail Armor designs

[Cygnia]

Reportedly the guiding principle with the original Star Wars films was to avoid anything looking like it would not be out of place on Earth. XIV could do with the same rule of thumb to reel it in - get they wanted Sphene's outfit to appear like a holdover from the past, but why then is there nothing left of Alexandria's past style for civilians when you have an eternal queen to preside over it *and* what seems a society very slow to innovate/change due to their soul cell technology etc?

[Shistar]

I think the issue is not really that it's modern gear, it's that it's always the same kind of modern gear. It's a streetwear set, always with a jacket of some kind on top (usually baggy and with a bunch of straps and belts) and then either a late allagan-like top underneath or a sweater/simple shirt. It'd be cool if we saw different types of modern gear, there's a big variety of people living in S9 to justify it. Farmers and hunters in Heritage Found, civilians (which is the gear we ended up getting, but I feel like there's not much variation for people living in the nicer part of S9 vs the area leading up to the Arcadion building), people in administrative/political positions (fancier civilian variants, scientists, police-like, officewear, etc) and even outfits for the characters that decided to marry their Turali roots with S9's culture. Introducing Turali patterns and colors in what would otherwise be a purely S9 outfit could have been cool.


The issue is not that it's modern gear, it's that it's the same top regurgitated over and over again. With all the new fancy materials they've added in DT, where's the transparency, the glowing bits, the latex, the metals? Although they are there, it feels like they're scared of going all out and giving us different silhouettes and vibes besides streetwear.

[Cidel]

Probably gonna make some folks angry but this aggressive push for modern street-wear is really offputting in the general setting.

A lot of people are tired of the streetwear... It feels like gear designed for phantasy star instead of final fantasy...

+1 To these.

I also felt especially that this whole sci-fi + streetwear pop culture push largely came out of nowhere. Of course, it didn't come out of nowhere, because Solution Nine... But honestly, the whole Solution Nine felt more like a shoehorned excuse to justify cranking out so many modern streetwear and modern sci-fi outfits that really clashes with a lot of the rest of the game up until now. Like it was created just because the designers are simply bored with high fantasy and all that and have been repressed or something at designing outfits better suited for a Phantasy Star game and this was the only way the devs could placate them from jumping ship somewhere else.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy some of the modern gear myself, dedicating at least one gear set that utilizes some of my favorite pieces from various sets but after seeing it pop up all over, even creeping into basically being the PvP rewards; it's quite frankly getting a little out of hand.

It's part of the reason I'm convinced Yoshi-P went ahead and unlocked all glamour restrictions, because there really isn't any "class fantasy" excuse anymore to speak of when you can main tank in a summer tanga bikini, your healer is in a mascot suit, monk is dressed like a French maid, and dancer wouldn't be out of place in a K-pop group.