tavostator

Wow, amazingly detailed answer, thank you! That definitely explains most of what I found confusing

As a PC gamer who is basically completely new to the FF franchise (my brother recently bullied me into being his paladin in XIV, and I'm loving it, but I haven't played a single-player main line FF ever), what's a good one to pick up during the sale to get me started? After reading up a little bit, I'm kind of overwhelmed with navigating different versions of the same game, the order of the games and if it's important to play some of them first, being wary of some questionable (?) PC ports etc.

Any guidance from the lovely veterans here would be much appreciated!

I agree, Tamsyn Muir really leaned into the weirdness, even more than in the first one. I had to force myself at one or two points to just roll with it, but yes, it does make for quite a satisfying twist/reveal in the end

Just an FYI, I think linking communities like this: [freefolk](/c/freefolk@lemmy.world) allows every user to click it and view the community from their instance, instead of actually moving to the remote instance where they're not logged in :)

freefolk

EDIT: this apparently only works if at least one user from your instance has interacted with the linked community, otherwise you get a "community_not_found" error... Still figuring this federated stuff out