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(10-08-2014, 12:21 PM)Kinono Wrote: I honestly don't get the hang-up. I mean, I could see it if this game were based at all on realistic fiction, but it's not. It's Final Fantasy. It's anime fantasy at the absolute best. Watching a little girl punch a huge buff dude and he rolls backwards into a wall isn't that uncommon in this genre. I understand the want for realism, but looking for it in Final Fantasy? You're gonna have a bad time.
Even then, there are so many examples of "short" strong races. Dwarves aren't always portrayed as muscle-bound, but the label nearly always removes any doubt of strength. Halfling fighters aren't unheard of. Nobody raises their eyebrows at gnome warriors.
If we weren't in a grim setting rife with trying to survive one near-apocalypse, I'd agree with you. Eorzea's a serious place, and while the comedic aside is alright from time to time, there's not a single part of the main story that's cartoonish (that isn't fetch quests).
Maybe it's my fault for being overly serious, but it's impossible for me to consider lalafell on the level of pure physical strength. Halfling fighters exist (as do their strength penalty and AC bonus due to size difference, which reflects exactly what I'm talking about here). Dwarves are short but incredibly stocky and muscular (though I'm open to seeing one where they aren't, but are strong like they are regardless if you've got a source). Gnome warriors are similar to the halfling one: Sure, you can clas into it, but you're preternaturally at a "handicap" because you're trading damage for dodge.
Calling it anime fantasy seems a little off to me. The only FF I can think of that's overtly anime-styled is FF7, and even then only AFTER the Advent Children nightmare that completely <opinions here>.
It also hurts my brain when people say physics don't apply as we know them. Everything else does, gravity does, elements do, but this one point which unravels my argument doesn't.
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