Which Might and Magic universe are you referring to?

It's fantasy, after all. Ple-Sen, do you have anything against breastplates? Although, it's the height of absurdity. What's the point of looking for beauty in armor when you can just imagine the amount of labor or the complexity of the manufacturing process that a blacksmith would have to go through to create even a single piece? Therefore, the fact that they are practical, and the difficulty of manufacturing them, is a priori dismissed, replaced by the statement "because that's how it is." It's similar to how in Star Wars, guys can communicate with each other in real-time, even though they are hundreds of light-years apart. How is that possible? The answer is simple: because that's how it is, because of an ancient, lost technology. Fan service works – everything is taken to the extreme, to the maximum, and to the absurd, as a tribute to visual beauty, at the expense of common sense. These are the laws of the genre.