Final Fantasy XIV's Break From Narrative Tradition

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Final Fantasy has a long and storied history of commenting on real-life social, political, and religious issues. But it has a particular way it approaches this subject matter, and Final Fantasy XIV has found massive success in a completely different method. How does it break from the series’ standards to make its points?

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24 thoughts on “Final Fantasy XIV's Break From Narrative Tradition”

  4. Hey remember that one 10min video you did on choice in life is strange? I feel like that game's story, atmosphere, characters and world building would be perfect for your channel's style of dissection. Just a thought..

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  6. Love the video, great job of keeping the spoilers to a minimum – also, yes!, I am watching the Playframe playthrough and can corroborate that Dan Floyd is a treasure.
    Any plans to talk about Echoes of the Eye? 👀

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  7. I mean, I’d be interested in a full analysis of FFXIV not unlike TWEWY’s. Make it an official goal on the Patreon and I’d bet money more people would join to push towards it, I’m just saying. BD

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  10. I cant believe this video exists, FFXIV is honestly my favorite game to date just on its story. I hope that you can make a full analysis on the game, the more you look into it the better it gets as time goes on, things mentioned in ARR come to fruition in SHB

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  18. FF14 feels lke this HUGE phnomenon that I've somhow managed to see little of.
    It's like there being a massive carnival going on on the other side of my tall garden fence. I can hear all the hubbub but I ain't seeing jack.

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  22. Heavensward is one of my favorite FF stories, full stop. Ishgard is such a well-realized city that the question "why is there a seedy bar next to the knights' congregation" has an answer that strikes to the heart of the wealth inequality of the city. I also love Shadowbringers, and one of the ways the fantastical plays with the literal, at least in my mind, is how much the Flood's devastation of Norvrandt kind of mirrors climate change. And when viewed in that lens, Eulmore begins to look more ecofascist.

    Stormblood is a mixed bag. There's a lot of interesting stuff there, but Lyse, the POV character, is kind of flat, and Ala Mhigo is ultimately done a disservice by the expansion's split approach. The patches make it even more mixed. Yotsuyu's plot line makes me cry! I cry when the trial pops up in roulette! It hit me hard and I love it and I hate Asahi so so much. On the other hand, the Ala Mhigo plotline wraps not with Nanamo taxing the rich to help refugees (because that would be favoritism [even though they live so precariously that rape and murder by bandits are accepted as facts of life {god I hate Godbert}]) but with her giving Ala Mhigan land to the Ul'dahn Monetarist that poisoned her. So Ul'dah joined a war in the middle east to depose the government and install one that is more agreeable with sharing the country's natural resources with their corporations. It kind of feels like they might not have thought that plotline through.

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