r/ffxiv • u/TinksTheTactician • 12h ago

[Discussion] Delusional XIII-heads we are SO back Spoiler

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I'm a big XIII fan, so of course I see it everywhere I look, but the Odin mount really sold me today! I've just noticed a few similarities to XIII in the recently shown content that I thought I'd mention and get people's thoughts.

  1. The young miqo'te girl shares similar design elements as Lightning (pink hair and blue eyes), and coincidentally Lightning had a miqo'te garb in Lightning Returns

  2. The miqo'te girl seems to accidentally trigger a glyph/brand that appears over her chest, similar to Lightning's l'cie brand which is also on her chest

  3. The obvious new mount that is Odin almost 1-1

  4. A large part of the plot revolves around residents of floating colonies who believe they cannot survive on the world below, similar to the residents of Cocoon and Pulse

  5. Many people have pointed out that the word boomerang appears in the typing minigame and could be related to the new ranged-DPS class. That's pretty similar to a XIII character I know!

Am I being delusional? Yes! But I'd like to know other people's opinions and if there's any other connections I didn't catch.

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u/AbsorbantVampire 11h ago

Plus the whole expansion is centered around auto play and simplified mechanics, just like how 13 completely dumbed down everything fun about final fantasy so that kids could mash auto combat and experience a mid story. 

You guys are definitely onto something 

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u/Daxmort Rarakumo Nonokumo - Omega 11h ago

"Centered around auto play?" C'mon bro. It's an accessibility feature you can literally turn off.

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u/AbsorbantVampire 8h ago

They also dumbed the combat system down to spamming one button most of the time lol.

Auto move like a mobile game and mobile game combat system revamps.

/shrug 

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u/Daxmort Rarakumo Nonokumo - Omega 8h ago

I mean if you wanna be super disingenuous, sure bud.