Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's 'Creepy' Moogles Are Giving Players the Ick | Push Square

10.03.2024 - 10:50 / pushsquare.com / Matthew Macconaughey

A series constant, Final Fantasy's Moogle is a familiar sight to many, and along with the Chocobo, serves as a mascot of sorts for the franchise. But the busted-looking Moogle we got in the recently released Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has been rejected by a particular segment of the community, who are convinced the gritty redesign looks more like Matthew McConaughey playing a drug mule named Miguel than a fantastical portmanteau of mole and bat.

Corraled by Eurogamer, a vocal minority is calling for a return to the cuddly, classic Moogle of yesteryear, rejecting the cracked-out koala bear Square Enix ultimately decided to go with. In fact, the Japanese combination developer-publisher weighed in on the discourse as it reached a fever pitch, proclaiming: «We love all of our Moogles and will not stand for this, kupo!»

How do you feel about Square Enix's decision to depict Moogles like this in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth? Do you like this new look, or would you rather something a little less haunting? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Alright, alright, alright, kupo.

Funny these are the same four tweets EG had on their article hours before. Lazy work guys (could've at least searched for 3-4 more tweets).

Also, for a Playstation website it is weird y'all haven't covered the new Ronin trailer yet but I guess talking about a FO tv show is more important. Odd that the reddit community argument between a dev and reddit for HD2 hasn't been covered either

Honestly… I don't mind 'em. Moogles have always stayed roughly the same with minor changes, these really aren't that different. I mean why stop at FF7 Rebirth Moogles vs. FF16 Moogles? Why not compare all Moogle versions?

I like the FF XVI look better but the FF VII Rebirth design isn't that bad.

FF9 still has the best Moogles, followed by 12

I thought they looked fine until I saw a post comparing them to the weird taxidermized fox from memes — now I always laugh when I visit the moogles.

I am sorry, not trying to be disrespectful, but how little entitled bratts some members of the gaming community are. Now they are trying to dictate how the style design for a minor «character» looks? What's next? Their names on the credits? Geez ..

Sweatband moogles are to cool to care about what twitter weirdos think.

They do kind of look like a cuddly toy that was put in the wash, came out worse for wear… and then was possessed by a ghost.

FFXIV and XII have the best moogles. Kupo.

Yeah honestly