Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
Most of the background info is really about the regions themselves. Like we know that Lestallum is based around a power plant using the heat of the meteor to power the region. This was old in the OG as well, but the new info expands this to talk about how the person who pioneered this was a woman, and she pioneered the new town and had the factory built. It's the reason why there are more female NPCs wandering around too, because the founder made it a female centric vocation. Likewise, a lot of the dungeons get expansions too from these books you can find or reading the bestiary. The Goblin Daemons in the Balouve Mines are actually the corrupted miners that formally worked there.

The Datalogs just give you character bios and will slowly expand as the story unfolds. It also gives you info on the monsters of the game and the Astrals as well. Pretty neat. It's a lot of little things that add up to make the experience more smooth than the OG version.
I find it interesting that so many of these games, or rather in how they are presented in the media, get so preoccupied with gender, the gender of the characters, and arbitrary distinctions in and around not just parentage and whatnot, but who created what race, whether the protagonist is male or female, and so on. Surely with the advances of feminism where they currently are, even in videogame media, specifically in a series better known, supposedly, for somewhat better representation, we wouldn't still be hung up on whether a character is male or female.