Luckily, it's not the g𝓀raphics that made me love FFT, so I'm not concerned if they're a little too smooth for some people's liking. They could have done literally nothing to the game, or changed a million things. As long as it still plays the same, I'll want to play it. It's been unavailable on modern PlayStation consoles for something like 12 years or more.

I can only assume their 'diverse' team of writers included mostly atheists. I've never been much of a believer myself, but lately I've started to see that the growing disdain for religion is creating problems like this. Stories that should feel like they're rooted in realism and history (which any good fantasy should) end up lacking any kind of identity in the vain attempt to erase 'problematic' content. It's like they've forgotten that stories need problems! Religion is a fantastic source of conflict, whether you personally like it or not. And whether you like it or not, religion is and historically has always been important to people of🗹 both our world and Thedas.

I🔜 think these writers need to practice writing characters who are different from them; I'm getting the feeling maybe they need to talk to different people in real life too.

I think ripping off Pokemon is a little different than ripping off Horizon, given that one is a cultural juggernaut several decades old, with many diverse titles, and the other is a recent series with two basically identical games. That's like copying James Bond vs whatever last year's most popular♔ new movie was.