Do you prefer Final Fantasy games to be in a heroic fantasy setting or an urban fantasy setting?
New trailer just came out for the new Final Fantasy 16 game coming out ... probably earlier than Nomura and his development teams could release a Final Fantasy game (That's what I at least hope for with Yoshida's involvement) and there comes a tone and setting relatively different from the recently released numbered Final Fantasy games (15 and the first part of the remake of Final Fantasy 7).
Heroic Fantasy by definition is:
"A subgenre of fantasy in which events occur in a world where magic is prevalent and modern technology is non-existent. The setting may be entirely fictitious in nature or based upon earth with some additions. Unlike dark fiction, it provides a setting in which "all men are strong, all women beautiful, all life adventurous, and all problems simple".
Wikipedia, taken from de Camp's Introduction of Swords And Fantasy
It's basically a fantasy world that plays more loosely with it's settings in contrary to Urban Fantasy, on the other hand is defined as :
"a subgenre of fantasy in which the narrative uses supernatural elements in a 19th-century to 21st-century (or equivalent) urban society. It usually takes place in the present day (or the equivalent of the "present day").
Wikipedia, taken from Holmes' "Writing Urban Fantasy" Part 1 and Datlow's Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy."
Which entails concepts in our modern world such as the idea of automobiles and technology found in our present day society coexisting with a number of fantasy concepts.
Basically, in a Final Fantasy game, which sub-genre of fantasy do you prefer the games to take more inspiration from. Final Fantasy 6 is like that weird hybrid child about the prominently shows the concept of "Magic vs Technology" that I show most favoritism towards.
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