Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Players Call Moogles "Creepy" And "Hideous"
What if moogles looked like koala bears... with human teeth? I'm so glad you asked, because Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth gives us the answer. Horrifying. They would look horrifying.
"I follow both Japanese and American people here, and I love how both cultures agree that Rebirth moogle looks cursed [as fu**]," Twitch streamer celina_0801 tweeted. "I see people ACTUALLY being disappointed in this but hell nah I love this chaotic look AWESOME JOB Square Enix, keep it like this".
"FF7 Rebirth Moogle has been trending in Japan with users saying it looks super creepy," YouTuber Genki Gamer said. "Some users are comparing it to the FF16 Moogle and saying it’s like the one in the online profile picture vs the one in real life!"
Not only have they drawn comparisons to koala bears, but someone even likened them to Jack Frost from the equally as cursed 1998 movie. "I just realised why the moogles in FF7 Rebirth are so unsettling to me," StillNeedleworkker611 posted on the Vinesauce subreddit.
"They look unsettling for me because they remind me of that period when people insisted on doing photorealistic versions of cartoon characters for live-action movies, like Scooby Doo, Garfield, Smurfs, and Woody Woodpecker," guil13st commented.
Granted, this isn't the first time we've seen this moogle design. Crisis Core Reunion, the remaster of the PSP spin-off, was the first game to update moogles and make them look more like koala bears. It was controversial then, and it's controversial now.
We're just normal mogs. We're just innocent mogs.
"I feel like moogle designs and personalities have slowly degraded over time," OperattivePiGuy said.
"Jeeze, glad it's not just me - they were so off-putting when I first saw them; I think part of it was the teeth?!" Lyude7 added.
Luckily, you can't torture moogles like you can Koroks in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, so as nightmarish as these koala bears might be, they're at least left to their own devices.
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