The Sims 4 is continuing its train of Final Fantasy 14 references, and the latest Easter egg implies that Sim children cannot get over the story-driven MMORPG's most traumatizing spoiler.
The next Sims 4 expansion pack, Growing Together, is due out on March 16, but before launch, the devs have given some of the community's most popular content creators an early look at the new content. YouTuber MsGryphi posted a video breaking down the new build and buy mode items, and one particular object - which you can see at the 27:54 mark below - quickly caught some crossover attention.
This art board features several different designs that swap the drawings around, but they're mostly made in the image of children's crayon drawings. In the corner of one design set, there's a drawing of a blue swallow soaring through space in search of unknown worlds.
If you're a Final Fantasy 14 fan who's up to date on the story, you may already be crying. If you're not, be warned that Endwalker spoilers will follow.
Endwalker ultimately centers on a character called Meteion. To simplify a 400-hour-long story arc, Meteion is a creature from the ancient past who alternately takes the form of a blue swallow or a young girl. She's sent into the cosmos to seek out new worlds and discover how different alien societies have determined the meaning of life. But she finds only the remains of civilizations that have destroyed themselves, and seeing the survivors despair at the meaninglessness of existence, Meteion triggers the events that lead to the apocalypse players spend Endwalker trying to prevent.
As you'd expect from most Final Fantasy stories, the plot of Endwalker ultimately ends in a more hopeful place than that, but that's a pretty heavy set of
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