@clarias I DON’T KNOW I’m still so upset by this. I’ve been playing a lot of Final Fantasy and having so many flashbacks to the times I tried to discuss the games with the people that I /knew/ played them and… they just didn’t care about the story or even the characters that much. They would care about the battles, the mechanics, or even the setting, yes; but not the story. Or maybe they refused to talk about that bc it was a ‘nerd thing’ or didn’t want to talk about that with me in particular bc I was a girl, I don’t know (14yo is a difficult time). And I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t just the people I knew back then: every time I read a review of a game that only mentions the plot in passing I know it’s most likely been written by a man.