Have you even played the other Final Fantasies?

GUNS:

FF7 - Shinra soldiers + ONE OF THE MAIN FRIKKEN CHARACTERS HAS A GUN FOR AN ARM

FF8 - Laguna (again, possibly the most important character) uses a gun. Estar soldiers use them. Irvine uses a gun too. Sh*t loads of guns.


The point is it IS fantasy. In any of the FF games if it was reality then the swords would be cutting heads off. A strange dog creature attacking would just get sliced in half, it would never get an attack in.

That's not how FF works. It works because Square use their magic on it to make all the FF games fantastic.

Why shouldn't they be different?
If you think about it - times change. Change occurs because people want it to. Things don't change just for the sake of changing so really you need to take a step back and maybe think that it's time you tried something new.