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think I'm gonna move onto this after ffix
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I actually think sometimes videogames get way too into worldbuilding at the expense of telling a good story. like there's a point where it just becomes self-indulgent and you do at the expense (or sometimes even in place of) the larger vision that the game is based around. there are some games where it feels fetishistic. I think it's something where you can get away with just enough to support the story you're telling in a way that makes the world more coherent, and prevents further lines of questioning from the player

dark souls actually uses world building techniques almost exclusively to tell its story and I feel like it does so excellently, because every piece of lore does directly relate to the plot of the game, but often in not particularly obvious ways.

unrelated but I haven't touched final fantasy x in years but I remember the entire game having like, the vibe of a sugar ray music video. I kind of feel like that undermined anything else the game had going for it, though I thought the battle system and character development were both quite good.
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also I've revised my opinion of ffix that it sucks because the music sucks. and the game and the story are quite good but the music is just so flat and emotionless and forgettable, and the entire experience loses energy and life as a result

I also feel like it's the aesthetic father of kingdom hearts...
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well, it's got easily the most cohesive and well developed plot of any final fantasy games, despite how ugly and garish the whole thing is

like it's the first final fantasy game I've played where I actually cared about the love story

(ffiv doesn't count, because it's ffiv)
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I think worldbuilding serves a different purpose in a videogame than it does in a work of fiction, in addition to working somewhat differently
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