Doesn't matter if the guy is right or not. I'm not complaining that he's wrong. I'm complaining that he's lame. Being right has very little to do with being entertaining. Yeah, he's right that final fantasy is unrealistic. I've never encountered a fantasy world that is realistic. I've never even encountered a fantasy world that is internally consistent if you actually stop and try to poke holes into it. That is why pointing these things out about a fantasy world is lame.
Pointing out bad writing is not so bad, (although video games are known for bad writing so even that is kind of lame too). It's kind of funny to do this with Final Fantasy though, because they act like their writing is good, when in fact it's just like any other writing for a video game.
I think a lot of these internal inconsistencies are inseperable from bad writing.
And it may be hard to write a story, particularly a long one, that has no inconsistencies in it, but the less you have the better. The Final Fantasy games are so riddled with them that I find it impossible to keep quiet. This could never, ever, pass for a decent movie.
On that note, I'm not going to let anyone get away with the "it's just a game" comment. Yeah, you know what? If games aren't supposed to have good writing, then people should stop making them
de facto movies. I dislike the now rather old habit of making "games" that seem to be films with the skeleton of gameplay half-heartedly rapped around it. When I want to play a game, it's to
play something. Using videogames as a vehicle to mainly tell a story strikes me as backwards and sort of stupid. But okay,
if someone is going to do that, then of course I expect good writing! If you're going to defeat the purpose of a game so you can tell a story, it had better at least a decent story. Of course, really, I'd say that if you are going to tell a story at all, it should be a decent story.
Can't write well? Don't write at all. Don't put this shit in a game.
This reminds of that time I saw a commercial for a game, don't remember what it was called. It was nothing but terrible cinematic cut-scences of course. And I resentfully grumbled to myself "there are no more good games, only bad movies".