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minus-squareamio@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoFinal Fantasy doesn’t “look Japanese”, according to this guy. If that’s a joke, I’m not getting it, and if it isn’t… wat?
minus-squareTwilightVulpine@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI can only assume that their point is that Final Fantasy is heavily inspired by western mythology and fantasy.
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoFFs 1-5 were fairly generic DnD style worlds. It wasn’t until 6 that the cyberpunk/fantasy mix came in then I’d argue 8 was the first one where some of the designs in the world looked very Japanese.
Final Fantasy doesn’t “look Japanese”, according to this guy. If that’s a joke, I’m not getting it, and if it isn’t… wat?
I can only assume that their point is that Final Fantasy is heavily inspired by western mythology and fantasy.
FFs 1-5 were fairly generic DnD style worlds. It wasn’t until 6 that the cyberpunk/fantasy mix came in then I’d argue 8 was the first one where some of the designs in the world looked very Japanese.