#... kind of i have half a headache i'm not the most coherent rn

[icharchivist]

no but those shittakes about “ff15 is bad because it’s too modern” annoys me because it hits right on the thing i actually love about ff15 about how, modernity cannot protect you from nature, from the past sins you inherit from your ancestors, from the fact the world is still large and impossible to conquer. 

It’s something i think is extremely effective in ff15 with the whole night mechanism and how it’s genuinely TERRIFYING to be out at night especially during low level, and the gameplay pushes it a little further by having Ignis refusing to drive at night. 

No matter the advancement of technology or modernity, magic and nature are still the primordial forces you cannot control. 

And it’s driven home by the whole deal with the Daemon, re: that it’s people who’s been infected with the Starscrouge becoming those monsters, and how much it’s directly tied to the prophecy the Gods pushed on the Lucis Caelum and specifically on how they screwed over Ardyn and how Ardyn is willing to use it against those who wronged him, and, to the extend, of how the Empire is exploiting this past suffering to weaponize it in their own expansion.

And in a sense i think it’s extremely effective in the sense of, you cannot run away from the past forever. You cannot just ignore the plague humanity, via the empire, is unleashing, and how it destroys humanity and nature alike.

The modernity of ff15 i think serve in contrast about how the primeval elements of this world can be so easily ignored when walled down in Insomnia City but will end up crawling their way and crush this modernity and stuff.

And i mean it’s the whole irony in the narrative structure of the arcs in ff15 in general.

idk i do think the game mostly went modern for the aesthetic, and, let’s be real, so many FF have been a balanced mix of modern and fantasy, each with their own themes associated to this balance, but the specific slack ff15 is getting while i specifically like how the modernity is challenged in a way, is annoying meeeeee.