Quote Originally Posted by fusional View Post
also, a lot of you here are confusing the meanings of the words "similar" and "identical"

even if two things look very similar, they don't look identical unless they are... get this... actually identical, like identical twins. IE: amaljaa and mamoolja look very similar, with differences in skin color, skeletal structure and bulk. you could say they're cousins. maybe one evolved from the other. but do they look exactly the same? no, they do not. no matter how you try to slice it- whether minor or not, there are aesthetical differences.
That's what I meant, actually. Similarities. The Amalj'aa looks similar to the Mamool'ja, along with their names. To me, I think FFXI had a ton of monsters, but I'm not sure compared to past games. FFXI was my first main Final Fantasy game, but my first spin-off of sorts was Tactics Advance.