#like i understand (sigh) why the devs think the *player* needs a rundown but. clive? huh?

[queenlua]

are there any Final Fantasy 16 enjoyers among my followers here? how we feelin about Final Fantasy 16, gang?

i ask because, ngl, i am cringing pretty hard at how excessively/on-the-nose-ly/tediously the game keeps driving home the "[Fantasy] Slavery Is Bad" theme. i understand is kind of ridiculous of me, given i've written many hundreds of thousands of words of fanfiction about The Other Video Game With A Cringey Fantasy-Slavery Theme, like, surely i'd be inured against this kind of cringe by now, but, hmmm. at least fire emblem por/rd didn't have 18 different sidequests all hitting the EXACT SAME "you help someone and they call you a bunch of slurs" beats over and over, yaknow

anyway! i'm hoping the game eventually assumes i got the message on Slavery Is Bad and moves on to explore other themes, i'm VERY interested in learning more about Cid's whole deal, but who knows

also i've only seen like 0.8 seconds of Dion so far which seems improbable given how much fanart i've seen of the gentleman. hope we see more of him at some point

#also: if i owe you a reply anywhere please know i got back from my international flight #and immediately fell violently ill #all i have been up for is crawling to the couch and playing lil bits and pieces of ff16. #and uh. not playing it particularly quickly lol #i might feel like a human later this week #it has been hell on earth booking appointments with the specialists i need let me tell you #ETA: ok yeah i think what's throwing me the most is how the game seems to think CLIVE is unaware Slavery Is Bad??? #idk man he was human canon fodder for 13 years. you'd assume the man has some notion #like i understand (sigh) why the devs think the *player* needs a rundown but. clive? huh?