(04-30-2014, 04:00 PM)Ignacius Wrote:(04-30-2014, 03:55 PM)thesunalsorises Wrote:(04-30-2014, 12:29 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Little Ala Mhigo has some rather disturbing quests, for instance, and the city-states are definitely not unambiguously good. In fact, most of them engage in some pretty ugly realpolitik.
XIV's politics reminds me of the politics in Ivalice games, mainly XII and Tactics. Those two games had some brutal politics where the mode of operation was the ends justifying the means. I find that XIV's politics isn't as complicated as Ivalice's, in XII there's multiple factions and everyone has their own agenda and Tactics is well... even more complicated.
TBH, I don't think XIV is the darkest or the grittiest of the series, in IV Cecil destroys a village and runs away when he realizes what he's doing is wrong, and in VII Cloud's working with what is essentially a terrorist organization. So being dark, having mature themes and moral ambiguity aren't new to the series.
Yeah, FFXIV looks like Candyland compared to Final Fantasy Tactics. Â That world was horrifying, considering it was mostly people's ignorance and ambition that led to its evil. Â At least now, we've got people in black robes with evil intentions to hate.
I know, there's no supernatural forces at work, it's humanity's inherent flaws that was the true evil in Ivalice. If you accept the theory that the events of XII lead to the formation of the church of Glabados and the destruction of the sun-cryst leading to the cataclysm, then it's even more apparent that they sort of wrote their own fate.
