Final Fantasy XIV
Video Game Report
Yes
14
No
3
3
lifesnotasong
There are cat-like enemies that must be killed in various dungeons and quests.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
16
No
4
6
PenguinZero
Certain canine enemies are referred to as dogs, though they look somewhat different from real dogs. The first dungeon, Sastasha, has jackal-like 'Scurvy Dogs,' while Stormblood-era Garlean dungeons have 'Canis Pugnax,' which look like monstrous bulldogs. The dungeons are mandatory, and the players must kill at least some of the canines to proceed.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
20
No
0
4
user19962
Various animals populate the game world as hostile mobs. Quests often task the player with killing one or more of these animals. Hunting animals for their hide, meat, or other body parts is often required to support a crafting job.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
8
0
pmuean
animal are used as rides and mounts. some might consider this animal abuse.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
9
No
0
Yes
5
No
9
3
catsquire
In a main story level 60 dungeon, one of the bosses is a large hostile pegasus which must be defeated to continue. In the lvl 86-87 zone in Endwalker there are unicorn enemies called monoceros which can be killed, and in the endgame Endwalker raids there is a boss thats a version of hippocampus, however it is more monstrous and dragonic than horselike.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
1
Shiromisa
In the town of Tailfeather where they raise chocobos (large horse-birds), there's a questline that involves a villain character killing and cooking a side character's pet chocobo chick
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
26
No
0
6
user19962
The unprovoked murder of a dragon in the backstory is the cause of an ongoing war; your efforts to end this war peacefully form a major story arc. One antagonist of this arc is another dragon who, consumed by his desire for revenge, wishes this war to continue until humanity is destroyed; this forces you to fight and kill him.
Various lesser dragons populate the game world as hostile mobs. Quests occasionally task the player with killing one or more of these dragons, and hunting them for their hide, meat, and other body parts is occasionally required to support a crafting job.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
18
No
0
3
user19962
An early-game dungeon is an abandoned jail which has been infested with various large arachnids, ending with a boss fight against a large scorpion. An optional late-game dungeon contains several spider enemies, including one boss fight.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
16
No
0
2
catsquire
There are several snake enemies in the game, many resembling cobras. There is also an optional boss fight againt a god resembling a snake, who transforms into half-man-half-snake during the fight, and summons several large snakes as a repeated knockback attack.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
17
No
0
4
user19962
Various large insects populate the world as hostile mobs. Several dungeons have insectoid boss fights.
1 comment | Add comment
0
NanaseRiku
several, but most prominently two main characters get temporarily disowned (lol)
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
2
No
0
1
pmuean
Female antagonist in Stormblood expansion
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
18
No
0
3
user19962
A major antagonist is shown to have been abused as a child, which forms a major part of her motivation. Even now that she is an adult, her parents are entirely unrepentant and willing to abuse her further up until the moment they die.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
11
No
0
Yes
10
No
0
3
KupoNuts
This is a tactic used by some of the game's antagonists towards the player, and also towards npc characters like Yotsuyu. It may also be part of flavor text for quests once you become more self aware of the fetch quests in the writing.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
8
No
0
2
shadg
During an optional series of sidequests, a male character stalks a female character. This is framed as comedic.
1 comment | Add comment
3
catsquire
One of the optional repeatable quests for the Gnath tribe (Heavensward content) requires delivering a fictional plant to several npcs, highly implied to be equivalent to marijuana.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
17
No
0
4
Liatai
Various characters throughout the game, both PCs and NPCs, use alcohol. Some NPCs do so to the point where it impacts their ability to function or fulfill their daily tasks, especially in Limsa Lominsa. At one point in the gap between A Realm Reborn and Heavensward, Thancred is absolutely sloshed and slumped over the table in Scion HQ, but it's easy to miss since it's an optional interaction in a side room. Moenbryda and Yda are both at the table when it happens, if you want to keep a watch for that and avoid it.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
12
No
1
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
3
No
0
Yes
2
No
0
1
KolbyJack
You get drugged unconscious at one point. It's just to get you out of the way for a moment for a plot, nothing happens to your character while they are unconscious.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
16
No
0
6
mistersandman
It is never explicitly stated but heavily implied to happen to many young girls in Ishgard.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Yes
10
No
0
Yes
2
No
5
Yes
4
No
5
1
IsabelVelasco
It is stated in the optional but recommended to complete Shadowbringers sidequest “Village Of Woe” that a the town’s old mayor - and father of the quest giver - hung himself from guilt of not protecting his town a year ago. The Sidequest also features a character who has been unable to accept the death of the man, and it is implied he believes the man is still alive.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
14
No
2
3
shadg
Two dragons get their eyes torn out. One of them gets one of their eyes gored by a lance. None of this is shown but the resulting wounds are.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
11
No
0
1
Excaliburs
Sorrow of Werlyt quests / The Weapons questline that unlocks Ruby, Sapphire, etc features this heavily. There is onscreen branding/burning cutscenes where the character is visibly in pain as others are forced to watch. Participants in the project were tortured for science/weapon advancement if not killed by it.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
8
No
5
4
pooka
A major cutscene in Endwalker depicts a young victim having their head (and body) squashed on screen.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
10
No
0
1
cherry
loss of an arm, definitely, unsure if others
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
0
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
1
No
0
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
3
No
0
2
NanaseRiku
shadowbringers in particular. like the premise
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
1
4
beagle454
In the cutscene after the level 60 dungeon Baelsar's Wall, someone willingly falls to their death.
6 comments | Add comment
1
pooka
In the finale of Endwalker, a major event occurs within the story leaving many characters and the player character unable to breathe. Said inability is audibly addressed and lasts several seconds in the cutscene.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
0
3
RachelWilkes94
Mentioned, but not shown, in journal entries that can be found in an optional sidequest dungeon in the Heavensward expansion called "Dusk Vigil."
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
2
No
0
1
IzuruKamukura
In Brayflox's Longstop, an earlier dungeon, an enemy is shown to be crushed to death by another enemy.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
4
No
2
1
Enronin
The player classes Dragoon, Ninja, Machinist, Black Mage, Summoner, Blue Mage, Red Mage, and possibly some other classes I can't think of have fire-based spells and attacks that they use to damage and kill enemies. Additionally, many enemies attack players with fire-based attacks, which can kill the player. I don't believe any of them act as though they're burning to death though, they just play out a standard death animation.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
3
Yes
2
No
0
-1
NanaseRiku
naked dragon loli
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
13
No
1
3
juke
though not on screen, some quests are explicit about child death and some major characters have this as a motivator for their actions.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
0
Yes
1
No
0
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
5
No
5
2
catsquire
There are some conversations between npcs that mention or imply unfaithfulness, however are easily missed and does not go into detail. As far as I remember there isn't a mention in the main story.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
18
No
0
4
beagle454
In 4.3 a woman murders her abusive step-parents with a knife.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
14
No
0
3
UnagioLucio
One character is kidnapped twice before the story of the first expansion
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
20
No
0
3
user20391
There are many lesser mobs/fiends in the game that are ghosts/undead/spirits in deserted areas that you can explore through dungeons or raids such as Amdapor, Palace of the Dead and Mhach. In Palace of the Dead you see npcs (non playable characters) within it that you have encountered and died at some point during the events of the game. These npc mobs can be randomly found within the floors of the palace.
The level 50 dungeon, Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard) also has a lot of creepy themes revolving around ghosts, undead and spirits consistently throughout it, including boss fights. The last cutscene upon leaving this dungeon features a ghost in it, with a character that you know should be dead. The camera shakes, glitches and zooms in as it tries to focus on this character/ghost then the sound effects and music comes to a hault as it reveals the ghost's face.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
24
No
0
3
TrizzaTethis
Yes. Towards the end of the base game ("A Realm Reborn"), one of the NPC protagonists (who went missing around the middle of the story) is revealed to be possessed by the antagonist. In early portions of the expansion "Heavensward", you find out one of the NPC protagonists has been permanently possessed by the FFXIV universe's equivalent of God. During later portions of that same expansion, one character is shown to become possessed by the lingering anger of the main antagonist (which temporarily transforms him into the antagonist). Throughout the after-story content in the expansion "Stormblood", it is shown the body of Stormblood's main antagonist has been possessed after death, and that same antagonist himself is possessing someone else's body. At one point in the early story of the expansion "Shadowbringers", one of the NPC protagonists is shown to be briefly possessed by the NPC mentioned earlier that had been possessed by God.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
12
No
2
4
KupoNuts
In the expansion Shadowbringers, there comes a point where you, the player, and Alphinaud have to take showers and spray on perfume liberally to rid a terrible stench you have. None of your body parts are shown during the events, and it isn't sexualized in any manner. There IS one NPC who has flesh toned pants on while standing in one of the other showers, however, which is played for laughs.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
13
No
3
3
catsquire
Throughout the final Nier alliance raid, there are several instances of the screen briefly flashing with static and a girl's face, and is intended to be creepy.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
0
1
KolbyJack
They feature prominently during the Nier 24-man raids in Shadowbringers.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
17
No
0
3
RachelWilkes94
One recurring enemy, Ferdiad, has a jester-like appearance and a Joker-like cackle; he first appears in the Amdapor Keep (Hard) dungeon in A Realm Reborn, and returns as a secondary antagonist and boss in the Shadow of Mhach questline of Heavensward.
Additionally, Kefka Palazzo of Final Fantasy VI appears as a boss in the eighth encounter of the Omega raid series in Stormblood.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
13
No
0
3
TrizzaTethis
It is usually cut away from or only mentioned in dialogue boxes. In the expansion "Shadowbringers", however, two characters are shown in close up shots vomiting some sort of white goop.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
9
No
0
2
catsquire
There are some moments where the camera cuts away/to black and squelching, crunching or cracking is heard, implied by the context to be gory, however such moments are very brief and are not common.
2 comments | Add comment
0
magiamugi
Passing mentions, but never shown or expanded on.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
4
No
5
0
Enronin
There is one cutscene where the Emperor of the enemy empire spits on the tomb of his deceased father. The spit is visible very briefly.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
1
No
6
1
ArauthSeyr
The Samurai job quest from levels 60-70 has you supporting the police of a city.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
1
No
12
2
catsquire
While there is no cancer, there are some side npcs that have terminal illnesses or know/are related to someone with terminal illness or has died from terminal illness. As far as I remember the names of these terminal illnesses are all fantasy and don't use the names of irl terminal illnesses.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
4
No
6
1
Shiromisa
There are some dungeons that use needle/syringe imagery for mechanics
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
11
No
1
3
juke
more of infirmaries, yes, there are scenes where characters are treated for injuries, and the player can typically explore these areas as well.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
12
2
cherry
no canonically autistic characters
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
0
Yes
21
No
0
4
mistersandman
(vague spoilers) Characters sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Notably, there is a disturbing scene following Baelsar’s Wall where a character commits suicide by falling to their death on-screen. The aftermath is shown— there is no blood, but the character’s face is shown in a very grotesque and frightening way.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
5
No
0
2
Shiromisa
Multiple instances of attempted/completed suicide
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
9
No
0
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
9
No
0
2
Holgast
A major antagonist in Endwalker is gleefully suicidal and expresses their wishes multiple times.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
12
No
0
3
beagle454
The post-A Realm Reborn dungeon Amdapor Keep (Hard) has a fight in which you must kill a room of multiple enemies, as demon walls close in on you. Notifications appear over time to inform you how long you have until the walls close. You can see the walls slowly close in the room. Failure to kill enemies in a timely manner results in the orb in the middle of the room repeatedly spamming an attack until death.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
1
spacebees
The major antagonists of Stormblood and Endwalker. The former has the other has *some* sort of issues resulting in anhedonia; violence and risking his life is the only way he feels something. The latter is suicidally depressed and trying to end the world over it.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
5
No
0
2
magiamugi
In major cities and the Firmament you more often than not will hear other players crafting. The crafting noises usually consist of repetitive noises that can get grating really, really fast.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
7
No
3
2
catsquire
In Endwalker, during around lvl 84-85 story quests, it is a big plot point where people get overwhelmed by anxiety and despair.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
6
No
0
Yes
9
No
3
1
pooka
Is most pronounced in Endwalker--where some cutscenes are shot from first person point of view. Most scenes are typically of dire context and feature a mild case of shaky movement for the player.
2 comments | Add comment
2
spacebees
The third Nier alliance raid is heavy on the flashy/staticky visual effects (and was formerly even more so, before Square Enix toned it down in response to feedback.)
4 comments | Add comment
0
KolbyJack
Nothing too major, but there are sometimes references to genitalia and sex in NPC dialogue, but usually minor NPCs. At one point a major character is referred to as a "whore" while being kicked repeatedly by a despicable antagonist.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
3
MagitekVai
Comedic text, such as item descriptions, the Hidibrand quests or the Astrologian questline sometimes feature self-aware comments on game mechanics
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
6
No
4
3
IzuruKamukura
There are no stillborn human infants, but there are stillborn dragons in Endwalker.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
2
spacebees
Midway through Endwalker's main plot.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
2
cherry
no- multiple characters of color die, but they are not the first or only characters to do so
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
6
No
1
Yes
1
No
1
Yes
19
No
0
3
crying over smash ultimate
Fictional racism, speciesism and misogyny happen occasionally in-game. If your player character uses she/her pronouns, she is called a b***h at certain points in the story.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
6
No
2
1
KolbyJack
There aren't any Jewish people in this fantasy world, and no race exhibits antisemitic stereotypes. Goblins are a race of beings in the game, but they are primarily depicted as gifted engineers, they can be friendly or villainous, and there is no special prejudice against specifically them by any characters.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
0
No
9
2
catsquire
No outright slurs, however some gay background npcs from an optional dungeon unlock questline mention that they were outcast from their home because of their relationship.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
10
No
4
3
juke
sexuality isn't a particular hot topic in the story, and whether not some npcs view your character in a possible romantic light is up for debate. there is, however, definitely death of characters with very strong inclinations towards the PC, regardless of their gender, and their interest is made MUCH more apparent in other translations.
3 comments | Add comment
3
Chubark
In the Hildibrand storyline, intentionally made as comedic, the main character of the storyline dresses up as a bride-to-be and disgusts the groom.
3 comments | Add comment
3
cherry
a character is mistaken for her twin brother- while this is just an accident, she is very annoyed by this.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
0
cherry
implied relationship between a woman and the older man who took her in as a child.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
5
No
2
2
RachelWilkes94
A minor antagonist in the base game is in love with her adoptive father, the main antagonist; in one dungeon cutscene, she claims ownership of both his body and soul. This is in conjunction with a line of dialogue where, at the end of a meeting, her father waits until all other persons present have left, and then orders her to meet him in his private quarters; these facts taken together imply that he reciprocates her, and that they have a physical relationship.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
18
No
1
2
UnagioLucio
Nothing visually explicit, but there are a lot of lewd jokes and references to brothels and the like.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
3
No
0
1
MagitekVai
A few characters are shown nude, but are framed so we conveniently can't see their private areas
1 comment | Add comment
1
IzuruKamukura
In the major cities there are scantily-clad female dancers. Additionally, in Stormblood, a major antagonist named Yotsuyu has massive trauma due to her relationships with men and the sexual objectification she experienced throughout her entire life. There are also the players who intentionally create scantily-clad female avatars, which is its own kind of sexual objectification.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
1
KolbyJack
One comedic side story involves very elderly antagonists with a lot of age-based humor, some of which involves senility.
1 comment | Add comment
0
PsiStrike
One of the MSQ quests of Endwalker in Garlemald involve a young sickly child in need of medicine.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
6
No
0
1
magiamugi
Ishgard especially has a very bad homelessness problem. Dialogue regarding this is often unavoidable.
However, upon completing Patch 3.3 and attaining Level 60, you can start the Ishgardian Restoration sidequest which will help build new homes for the homeless.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
7
No
2
2
IzuruKamukura
The endings of each expansion are relatively upbeat but are also achieved by the loss of many friends and allies. The end of Endwalker is an all-around triumphant victory for humanity. The endings are not outright sad but the sacrifices made to get there are immensely bittersweet.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
12
1
lesbianvenat
No! In fact, he is presented as a very real entity during the game’s yearly Christmas event “Starlight Celebration”.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
8
No
5
4
Liatai
No cars exactly, but various machines, ships, and airships do crash, burn, explode, or otherwise sustain catastrophic damage throughout the game, so use your own discretion.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
15
No
1
3
UnagioLucio
Air ships, the game's equivalent to planes, crash.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
16
No
0
2
Shiromisa
Machinist players aside, there are multiple scenes where npcs are shot, including main characters
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
7
2
TrizzaTethis
There are zombie enemies and bosses throughout the game that are depicted as drowned seafarers. One boss has a "drowning" mechanic that kills you if you don't catch air bubbles (no drowning animation is shown, and if you die only the standard "falling to the ground" animation is shown) There is also mention of drowning in some of the dialogue and some boss fights have an instant-death state if you fall into the water under/around the stage (implicated drowning), though no actual drowning is ever shown on-screen.
However, in the middle of the expansion "Shadowbringers", you are confronted with a race of frogmen that attempt to drown people to turn them into more frogmen. Some drowning-esque imagery is shown. You come out of the cutscene underwater, but you cannot drown due to having been given the ability to breathe underwater in the previous expansion ("Stormblood").
Additionally, the story cutscene after defeating the final boss of Shadowbringers shows the NPC protagonists wash up on a beach, some of which appear to have almost drowned (don't worry, everyone is basically conscious or dazed - you can speak to all of them and they'll have dialogue).
5 comments | Add comment
2
catsquire
While not nuclear, there are several large explosions, some directly caused by bombings, with assumed (off-screen) casualties.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
17
No
0
5
user19962
Game combat does not graphically depict blood, but bleeding is implied via text. Several abilities and status effects reference blood. Certain enemies drop their blood as random loot.
Brief splashes of blood are occasionally shown in cutscenes; this generally does not linger, but one major arc is noted for an important character being covered in blood early on, which stains his armor red for the remainder of that story.
Engine limitations generally prohibit gore, but one major plot event results in an important character losing an arm.
2 comments | Add comment