Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
Quote Originally Posted by leader of mortals View Post
You're using all of the wrong reasons to call a game dark. How does weather actually make a game darker? That would be like calling the Dark Knight an evil, saddening film just because it takes place at night much of the time.
Weather makes the game darker the same way everything else does: it helps set the mood. Take any scene from a movie, and film it twice. Once in a brightly lit sunshiny area, and again when it is dark and raining, and ask people which one is darker, even if the dialogue and music are exactly the same. There is a reason we describe the tone of a situation as "light" and "dark", you know. The imagery of such things is tied very deeply in with the ambience, including lighting effects, and precipitation. Don't think that weather can't have a very distinct effect in setting the mood of a scene.
Exactly, and Tetsuya Nomura likes gloomy characters with gloomy weather to match. Haven't you noticed that all of the main characters that he designed have named related to weather? In particular, BAD weather, and that's why many of his characters are dark and gloomy (except for perhaps Tidus from FFX).