Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. I last played now-beloved MMO Final Fantasy 14 in 2014, when it was only a few months old—not counting those first few aborted years prior to its relaunch as A Realm Reborn. I thought it was okay at the time, but it cemented itself as one of the genre's all-time greats with its next few expansions (or so insist several members of the PC Gamer team who still play). I've mostly watched from the sidelines, glad not to be dumping months of my life into an MMO, but the fiery hand of FOMO has gripped me on occasion—like when I learned that Final Fantasy Tactics designer Yasumi Matsuno had designed a raid for the game, or when Yoko Taro went and did some weird Nier stuff in there. Today what I'm feeling is not FOMO, but rather fear of the inexplicable. Trepidation in the face of the profound. A flickering terror deep in my gut that the weirdest and perhaps dopest shit to happen in videogames in 2026 might somehow be a raid in Final Fantasy 14, because the game is doing a crossover with Neon Genesis Evangelion. The anime. "Get in the robot, Shinji," Cruel Angel's Thesis, "I'm so fucked up," Crisis of faith: the show, Depression: the show, cool robots, gross robots, everyone clapping—Evangelion is everything and everything in pop culture in the 30 years since has at least a little bit of Evangelion in it, such is its influence. Even a damn train was Evangelion. It's somehow still as popular as it's ever been, probably because the film series "retelling" of the original show began just a decade later in 2007 and somehow dragged out until 2021. Now Final Fantasy 14's creators have announced "a new alliance raid made with creative input" from the Evangelion filmmakers, called Ghosts of Desire. Will it be just another MMO raid, or