With FF16 appearing to show abit more blood and gore then normal ( tho I'd debate if it actually does and we'll get to that ). I want to ask everyone reading this if they feel the Final Fantasy series is dark enough. Least from what I've seen is people are super happy 16 appears to be darker than what we've gotten lately. But my question is this.. IS IT REALLY? There's alot of body horror in the PSX FF7 to the point you can mistake it for a Resident Evil game at times, and if not that game PE is RPG RE made by SE. I also seen people compare it to WRPGs like Dragon age ( FF16 anyway ) and I want to say Dragon age isn't as dark as any of the FF titles.. not really.
I think what alot of people are mistaking for tone is the artstyle. Yes most if not all WRPGs look darker then an FF title but the themes and whatnot I say were always darker in Final Fantasy. It looking like a WRPG doesn't make it darker for me.. if anything it makes it look like it's trying too hard when it never needed too. Mass Effect for example doesn't feel darker then FFX.. and FFX feels way darker. For the simple fact the cast is made up of teens, teens who are for the most part going off to kill themselves to maybe give the planet 10 years of sin freedom? That game is literally a cycle of death, it's the main theme.
FF7 again is full of body horror, and FF8's A plot in the beginning is about a group of high schoolers who are trained from pretty much birth to be killers. Thats WAY darker then super solider fighting aliens to maybe save the world in my opinion. Dragon Age's A plot is " We must stop the darkness" But that's it. It only looks darker because it's gritty.
So with FF16 looking more gritty then normal, do you think people are mistaking that for tone? Am I overthinking this and off my base? Let me know, lets talk about it and have a friendly chat instead of fighting about trolls and mogstation items.
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I think what alot of people are mistaking for tone is the artstyle. Yes most if not all WRPGs look darker then an FF title but the themes and whatnot I say were always darker in Final Fantasy. It looking like a WRPG doesn't make it darker for me.. if anything it makes it look like it's trying too hard when it never needed too. Mass Effect for example doesn't feel darker then FFX.. and FFX feels way darker. For the simple fact the cast is made up of teens, teens who are for the most part going off to kill themselves to maybe give the planet 10 years of sin freedom? That game is literally a cycle of death, it's the main theme.
FF7 again is full of body horror, and FF8's A plot in the beginning is about a group of high schoolers who are trained from pretty much birth to be killers. Thats WAY darker then super solider fighting aliens to maybe save the world in my opinion. Dragon Age's A plot is " We must stop the darkness" But that's it. It only looks darker because it's gritty.
So with FF16 looking more gritty then normal, do you think people are mistaking that for tone? Am I overthinking this and off my base? Let me know, lets talk about it and have a friendly chat instead of fighting about trolls and mogstation items.
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