My Halfway Impressions with FFXIV Dawntrail
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
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In today's video, I go over my first impressions with the MSQ of Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail and the formula Square Enix uses for world building !
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"Now that you've discovered what is potentially a gate to another Reflection, I bet you can't wait to visit Xak Tural!"
“Now that you’ve taken out the savior of the Star, I bet you can’t wait to go see some space rabbits!”
“Now that you’ve discovered the truth of the Final Days and recontextualized Answers, I bet I can’t wait to go faffing about Labrynthos to some unnecessarily-intense music!”
@@inspirations365ahaha that music was a lot after a while lol
@@inspirations365 Pacing is a different issue alltogether. I'm talking about imposing opinions on our character. That didn't feel like it used to be a thing.
@@youtousim how is there any practical difference at all in these cases?
@@inspirations365 In both cases, we had a practical motivation. Namely the new targets being our best hope to new information. This time, we're just curious.
Also in the Loporit example, the game at least acknowledges the absurdity of the situation. The thing is, that it would not have taken much to at least acknowledge the situation. Like giving us a third option besides "Yes!" and "Yes, absolutely!" there could be "What about that gate we just discovered" and the simple answer: "We can't open it yet, dummy!" Would have been enough to give the player at least the illusion of agency.
Thirdly: How does similar stuff making no sense before make it any better now?
This entire expansion feels like a anime filler arc staring Naruto for he will be the best Dawn Servant and his super power is Talk-no-jutsu.
Curb your expectations, some things get better and it feels like the writer changed for the final act but well its still the Wuk Lamat show and if you found her grating for the first half it only gets worse.
Funnily enough Texas was my fav zone because Wuk wasn't there.
THANK YOU... I thought I was alone in feeling a sense of relief that she was just gone. I have never wanted a character to die more in this entire game.
at around lv 98 msq i was telling people around that lv 97 msq was far more interesting. then i got to the ending, i feel i should go find and delete those comments.
Same. That was about the only time that we got to explore without having to babysit and it was pretty liberating.
@@amecoeur Yeah "that" moment, that spoiled an otherwise fun Trial.
Man I was so excited leaving tuli, just the wol and erenville going on an adventure maybe we join up with estinien who's having a brilliant vacation, but no we got go back to the fucking cat some more. 😢
I relate so much with feeling like you got blue balled for not being able to enter the city of gold. I was so pissed I did not give a fuck about shaaolani but it did feel like a vacation from welcome mat.
It's like showing the elevator entrance to amaurot and then having us go through the trolley arc before we get back there lol, also multiple cutscenes could be done via gameplay using vehicles, turrets or playing as other characters, but instead we just sit there and watch like visual novel.
@@ShoteR_Omega Yeah the train section should have 100% been a gameplay bit where we use the turret. Had easy potential to be really cool but its just a cutscene. Kind of feels like they didn't want to do anything outside normal combat after some of the reaction to scenes like the garlemald escape bit from Endwalker, but I wish they would have leaned into sections like that instead
Agree. like... lv90-94 msq, wuk lamat is okay... afterwards, she is tiring and i find myself disinterested. Promos have all been about the Scions, enjoy your vacay with the Scions, but did we? It felt more like they just show the scions but we're stuck with Wuk Lamat. So I'm excited to see your take on the second part.
Will def make a final wrap up vid when I beat the MSQ in the next couple days, but so far so good imo. Wuk Lamat isn't nearly as annoying as she was in the first half and Heritage Found has been a beautiful zone with a theme far more up my alley than what's been in the expac up to now
It was originally meant to be like that, but the people that gave Square Enix the ESG loans forced them to make Wuk Lamat a larger part of the story.
@@TeemoTemosson And you based that on what? Your dead aunt's spirit lingering in SE's office?
@@Eiensakura There was a person familiar with Square's inner workings sharing details on Reddit.
Vacation my ass, I was an unpaid babysitter and there was a lot of poop going on.
Stale and one dimensional indeed. All in all a lot of cool analysis. The pacing is indeed off.
After finishing the story. I feel that this expansion is basically a setup for future expansions.
Big surprise.
That's the intention. What they are doing is a repeat of ARR or Heavensward, Stormblood. Leaving bread crumbs of reflections, multiple ways of getting there. Yet, it needs to have a slow burn first.
Yeah but that didn't mean it had to suck
But it still could have been good
@captainpositivenegro2854 true! Literally, you could have changed the characters and the setting, so long at you get the (spoiler) at the ending. None of it really mattered.
We went from the dark Knight quality to an episode of Barney for kids quality writing...
Its been advertised for being a chill adventure and the setup for future expansions for months now. But of course you silly kids need everything to be some over the top action story to be considered good. This game really needs people like you to leave lol all you do is cry and want action 24/7
Calm down gramps, take your meds ya 1.0 Dino. Us silly kids will be playing long after you’re in the retirement home. 😂🎉
@@craigtrish2011 Well, a chill adventure was what I wanted. But instead we got duped into babysitting Wuk Lamat and watching her repeat the same drivel over and over until the very end of the msq. That's not a vacation adventure, lol. More power to you if you enjoyed it. But I wanted something a little more than a glorified beast tribe quest with a new character that's a broken record. The dungeons and trials were great though. Game's still fun despite the msq.
@@craigtrish2011 ff7 rebirth did it better with costa. The hojo fight is hilarious.
@@craigtrish2011 oh please uncle, chill adventure and bad writing are two different things. toxic positivity and excusing this level of quality is not going to bode well for the future of the game. I know your kind are okay with anything yoshi-p feed you, but not everyone enjoy shit.
Honestly in the whole expansion koana was the only character who got a mild ammount of development.
yeah i 100% agree that wuk lamat is the worst character in the game
One thing I wished for Wuk Lamat was for the voice actor to play into the into the race some more. She's a lion girl, so why not have a bit of fun with it?
For example, when the Alpaca spat at her, the "Aaargh" could have ended with a disgusted growl. Nothing that needs to be prominent but personal flares that would make the character more lively and at the very least more entertaining to listen to.
My hot take is that this expansion feels like 2 endwalker patches bundled and sold as an expansion. Each half feels like it’s own patch. Half one was continuation of island of haam adventuring. Half two was a mirror of 13th reflection stuff, which was far more interesting.
Lyse was a FAR better character than this Naruto Shadow Clone.
I totally agree with this why are we sitting there watching Gulool Ja Ja get killed when we could solo Zoraal Ja right then and there? Like we were even with him way back in level 92 and now at 96 we've long surpassed him but they have us all just go to Gulool Ja Ja? I question why we even bothered going on this journey when we don't get to do anything cool. This story is the Raiders of the Lost Ark gimmick where whether the WoL is there or not it doesn't matter and things will have played out the same.
Wuk Lamat goes from mildly annoying to just looking like an incompetent moron, to becoming the most grating character in all of FF, not just 14 for me. The writing was horrible, the voice acting is bad and to say she overstays her welcome in the story is an understatement. By the end of the MSQ I was skipping her scenes because I was so over her. This is the first expansion and first character, that has annoyed me to the point where I care more about hearing less of her than I do about potentially missing a lore drop.
wuk is basicly if naruto became hokage in the first season. no character development at all
Slight spoilers but at the begining they sayed that this was the area where the sundering has happened. So i was kind of speculationg that the golden city was like where the actual ruins of amarot was at. which would have been a cool idea. kind of disappointed that another shard is just locked to one zone
Making a lovely fur coat and rug for my Goblet house with Wuk Lamat's hide!
Normal and sane thing to say
I feel like where FF14 normally underteases, overdelivers in its story, this time the exact opposite happened.
The gameplay trailer basically spoils the whole story, while the carrot on the stick at the end wasn't even real.
Why would they show the Scions and Meteor and place a question of sacrefice, if not as misleading marketing.
I'm going to be completely honest here, it took me a good 10 minutes to realize the thumbnail said "soured" and not "sword", I really should stop pulling all nighters on SOTE😅
LOL
I liked the early world building part, I loved the Texas zone because it was something I wish we had more of. Afterwards I was tired of Wuk Lamat, despite her voice actress in German being incredibly good. Zone 6's later half was also one of my favorites, but he finale was pretty much ruined for me.
I would have liked it more if we had traveled with Erenvile, Krile and Estinien learning about the land and its people in our own pace and met Wuk Lamat and the other contesters once in a while helping them out, building bridges with each of them. As for the death of Gulool Ja Ja, it would have been better if it was a solo duty where we fought outside, holding off the enemies, strong officers, etc... and then afterwards we get a cutscene "Meanwhile in the Palace" and then we see what happened inside and that we as the WoL weren't there to stop it.
I love cowboy land because it felt like we finished with Wut Lamak and we can move on to doing adventure things, I hate cowboy land because the VAs was a bad off southern ascent and it ended up just looping back to Wuk Lamak, I didnt mind Wuk Lamak till then she had some issues but i was ok with it, when she got shoved back in the story i started to hate her,
(spoilers)I understand the dislike for maybe the slower tone of the initial half of dawntrail but to call Wuk Lamat boring or unfit to rule is not a fair analysis of the character in my opinion. The whole point of the first part of the story was to enrich you in different aspects of Tural’s culture, and to teach Wuk Lamt on how diverse her culture was so she be able to rule and appreciate all aspects of her people lives. To be fair I do agree that maybe at the start Wuk Lamat seemed inadequate when it came to battle or doing anything without us(to be fair kinda of a dumb point since we need to be there as the player character unless u wanted to play as Wuk Lamat the whole time) but the second half of the first part of the story helped demonstrate her greatest strength which was the love for her people and her willingness to work with them to build a better nation unlike Zoraal Ja who failed cause of his unwillingness to to work with or try to understand his culture. I do think her fights later help also demonstrate her physical prowess, like a rlly cool instance where she fights a certain someone who deserved it, and once again in the last trail where she has one of the coolest entrances in a trail I’ve seen. If I were to criticize anything I wish they could have mixed both parts of the story earlier on (even though I thought the passage of time from Mayan civilization to western to futuristic to be cool) and that maybe the writers showed some of Wuk Lamat’s strengths at the beginning of the story(even though I enjoyed watching her grow to the great leader she became).
The thing I didn't like about Dawntrail was the MSQ, ironically. It really boils down to if you like Wuk Lamat or not and sadly, even after finishing MSQ, all I felt was "Yeah no, Zero felt like a better character and she was flat as hell."
Everything else about Dawntrail is great. The zones, the music, the dungeons, the trials. The whole "healer strike" is pretty pointless given how balls to the walls crazy the mechanics bosses have in Dawntrail dungeons, it's so much fun and you can really die from flubbing 1-2 mechanics alone.
I agree, I've loved every boss I've fought so far in Dawntrail and actually had to pay attention and learn mechanics even in dungeons with trusts, I love that personally. And yeah, i've always had a softer spot for Zero than most others I feel. I was always under the impression that she is going to be one of the crucial characters going forward and I was fine with a slowish burn for her because the scenes like in Garlemald, while being kind of basic let's be honest, felt heartwarming because they played on stuff we already experienced and cared about so transitioning those lessons to Zero felt more natural imo than Wuk Lamat's various shonen esque "power of friendship" yap sessions in each zones, but the more I delve into Heritage found, the more she's not as annoying and grating as she was in the first half for me, still don't like the character and am not looking forward to seeing more of her though, but I feel with a character like Zero, all the setup for her is basically done so we can just go full steam ahead when they bring her back into the story
Dawn$h1t gets worse all the way to the end. It's one redeemable quality is saying goodbye to Wuk Jarjar Lamat.
The thing to understand is that it's a Japanese summer vacation. It 100% follows how those stories and real life experiences go, down to collecting the dumb stamps along every step. They are far more structured around seeing specific sights instead of a european/western style vacation, which is all about following whims and a lack of structure.
Interesting point. I do agree, and for all the people asking where our vacation was: it's the entire first half of just touring the country and having a good, low-stakes time. The Rite of Succession is our vacation, because putting someone on a throne is just the casual display of power we're capable of now.
On personal level, I really enjoyed doing all the sidequests in the areas as they popped up. There's some good lore and enjoyable scenes and perhaps it gave me that break from the MSQ to make everything flow nicer.
I get that but I couldn't care less how accurate it is if the actual story beats are largely uninteresting and rely on telling not showing while the dialogue is repetitively written. At the end of the day, it's a video game and you need something interesting to happen, now that I've gotten to zone 5 tho, I am getting those interesting things, just it took way too long for engaging stuff to consistently happen and for them to show things happening instead of just yapping a bunch of history lessons back to back.
See I thought it was a tale of two halves but thought the first half was better and post the tour you do in solution 9 the whole story spirals.
Though all this being said so much is being set up even pathways to different territories are currently closed off to us. There's more to see and more to learn.
Im Skipping everything now and just watch a story recap video or something. I got bored way to hard that i came down to this... and i have read and watched everything in the story up to Dawntrail.
ngl at first I liked wuk lamat, but as you said she just sort of repeats the same thing over and over again it started getting annoying so when I finally got to the the level 95 area and was free of the constant repeating I was actually happy I don't hate wuk lamat but my god she got insanely annoying quite fast.
Also dawntrail was sponsored by Amazon, attach an echo dot to your head like a Futurama brain slug. Alexa cast raise.
90-95 My enjoyment overall: 6/10. There was a lot of eye-rolling and pointless cutscenes, padding, and boring content. However, the overall arc of the rite of succession I thought was very good, and I think they did the Lyse thing way better with Wuk Lamat. I actually believe that Wuk has grown and learned things. She is a more competent leader by the end of it. I do hate the voice acting from Wuk though. She sounds perpetually clueless and I don't know why.
96-100 overall: 8/10.
I agree with the ratings but I fail to see how wuk lamat grew at all
@captainpositivenegro2854 she goes from a person that doesn't believe in herself, to a person that does believe in herself. She is a Shonen anime character.
@@captainpositivenegro2854 She travels to each region and learns something from the people there. No matter how corny you think it is, she genuinely is influenced by the various cultures she meets along the way. Also, unlike the other promises, she is interested in who the people are for the sake of it, rather than in order to win the competition. She is rewarded for her genuine curiosity, above the others who are only playing along for the sake of the competition.
@adognamedsally
Is that really growth though?
As you said she was always curious.
None of her beliefs were challenged or recontextualized.
@@SuperRamos619
That may be my issue Shonen protagonists suck generally
I just got to the invasion part too, finally it’s not Ascians!!! I like them, don’t get me wrong, but I’m ready to take on another villain who’s not trying to “destroy our world to save theirs.”
Well...
When the MSQ reception is negative, you know they are just going to reheat the Ascian bullshit.
Yeah so much for the lower stakes we were promised. The last act feels like something that should have happened at the end of Dawntrail's MSQ patches honestly?
@@captainpositivenegro2854LMFAO. Poor guy
I enjoyed the story once we got out to Texas and stopped babysitting Whak Lameat. That and Whak’s voice just is terrible.
This was the only expansion I had to keep skipping cutscenes because Wuk is soooooo bad
Lyse in 4.0 was Eisenhower compared to Wuk Lamat. I appreciated the talk with Dad that none of them were ready to run a taco stand, let alone the nation - but somehow they ended up ready in short order. Yay. And I don't hate Wuk Lamat - she, and the other three contestants, are just far far away from leadership material.
Yeah I found Story #1 dull as well. Maybe, just maybe, there's a payoff coming that the duo really are NOT ready to rule and they make a big ol' mistake or three. But it seems on the surface that they are now capable leaders because they just are, shush.
Story #2 - I'm fine with
I have so many gripes with DT
I was expecting ARR 2.0, slow pacing, maybe a little boring as my WoL went incognito in a SOLO trip, doing menial stuff for the first level or so but discovering interesting things, and people along the way. I also hoped for a little of clarity in stuff like, do we still have the Echo? How strong we are now that Hydaelyn is no more? The Echo things was even worse when Kryle got to sense something but my WoL didn't?
Instead, I got to be just an animated wallpaper, standing around, noding, and smiling. My WoL is a male Au Ra, smiling is not his forte
I stopped paying attention to the scenary or reading quests after a while, and then started skipping anything I could because I was bored out of my mind but, then how to know if this trash really improves later on as some people say?
So I'm not playing DT anymore, I'll do old content until my sub rans out
I'm mad because even if reliable people tells me it improves later on, and it's worth getting back, the long boring part will stay forever, and this is not a free trial, I paid for this garbage
Cya! the game doesnt need little kids like you playing anyway. Its literally the first part of a new story of expansions and you're crying because you didnt get every single answer right away. Go play wow or cod or something
Bruh just fucking skip if the story hurts you so much.
“Going back and play old content”
Fucking what? I hope you mean replaying old story because if not, you’re genuinely missing out on the good battle content DT has put out. That’s literally the one thing everyone agrees on right now.
The WoL is super powerful, if you pay good attention to the details of the story, basically, the WoL doesn't need Echo anymore (he has it, remember he still sees visions), instead what the WoL has is Dynamis and that's something that he learned how to use it in the Endsinger fight. Now you might ask: why hasn't he used it? It's the plot, the WoL is super strong now and he needs to be nerfed somehow by making him NOT using his powers.
The whole Dawntrail story could've been soloed by the WoL. The only menace was the final boss since it was in a virtual dimension where she had full control of everything. Other than that Gulool Ja ja? the WoL was being polite right there. Zoraal Ja? he could've been killed easily by the WoL. Instead...the WoL just played along with Wu lamat since it's her story, not ours.
Krile's echo does NOT work the way ours does. We see the past, but Krile sees into the soul of people around her, and senses their intent. That's why she got a vision when you didn't.
Yawntrail is more like it. This has been the most stale expansion to date.
Uh buddy it is only gonna get worse. You really shouldn't have bothered doing a story review until the end. You think the first half is boring.... it may be less boring for the start of the half way point but trust me, it is going to strike you back like the worst acid reflux you have ever had. You will remember your line about "There is payoff when Wuk Lamat realizes you gotta go to war..."
Its the worst expansion by far
For MSQ only? Possibly but if you don't include ARR.
@@CL-jq1xs im including ARR patches. DT is that bad
@@Cadugaming hm i consider them pretty close when it comes to the story but ARR is worse because it takes longer to complete the MSQ than dawntrail. Being bad longer is worse than being bad for a shorter time.
@@CL-jq1xs at least the story dont revolve around a single insuferable character
@@Cadugaming both are bad. So the one that last shorter is honestly better. Not to mention how horrible classes feel to play at the beginning. Really made me reinstall ffxiv 3 times before i completed ARR.
Ain't wrong about Wuk Lamat.
The story is fine, nothing spectacular, but it's good. What kills the first half of the story is that the story is ALL ABOUT Wuk Lamat and the Scions of course, with US being just Wuk Lamat personal body guard. Other than that, the story is fine and much better than Stormblood or ARR in general.
I think they should focus more on the WoL since it was SUPPOSED to be the WoL's get away vacation, but instead we became like a third character (even npcs barely recognized us in the story or talk to us). Instead this is the story of WUK LAMAT path to ascencion with Erenville being the secondary main character and the Scions getting the spotlight whenever the former mentioned are not around.
Yeah anybody preaching the cope enough to say “This is setting up all the upcoming expansions!”, yeah no one one is going to play a story that is grown from the crap they gave us in this expansion.
In fact; I truly believe that Square absolutely needs to give the players a full and sincere apology about what they did with the MSQ for an expansion we all paid for.
If I don’t get assurance from Square that they have decided to drop everything they did in this expac and go in an entirely different direction with a new story, I just am not going to bother playing anymore.
I have no faith in this story and these writers that wrote this. If they are doing the Alliance Raid, the extreme trials and the Savage tier- yeah you all can enjoy this crap. I am good, and square got me for my time and money enough.
This was substandard. FF14 needs to get better
And anybody (like you) throwing this much of a fuss over an expansion that is meant to reset, calm down and set up a new story of events, should just leave. Maybe you can all go to a meeting where you can cry all you want and leave the actual adults to do the playing :)
Yeah anybody preaching the cope enough to say “1.0 is just the start. They’re promised 2.0 is going to overhaul the game and be better”, yeah no one is going to play a game that is grown from the crap they gave us in this launch.
I sincerely hope Square Enix apologizes and brings me my bottle while I throw a tantrum about how entitled I am that the game didn’t meet my expectations.
See you later, nerd.
The thing with Wuk Lamat is Teacher (Warrior of Light) Student (Wuk Lamat) and we are suppose to Teach her. Now I get that yes we went to the moon and everything but that is the issue we are too powerful. So yes thinking like what happen why are we not the main Lead because we can't be
Which is fine, but they did a terrible job with us being the teacher, with all the experiances the WoL + scions have, no of us sit down and talk about the struggles we went through to try and teach Wuk Lamat any lessions, like Alphy learning from his exp from the crystal braves and the grwoth from traveling with Ysale/Estinien. Every growth Wut Gets feels out of no where or just because to me.
@@AvRiku Then you miss the point She learn of her Country that she would rule, Fight for her Father, and Became part Leader of her Country then Fight for her Country.
@@mattstansbeary3068 This only works if you literally don‘t think about it for a second. Wuk Lamat is a supposed heir and she never traveled her own land before as preperation to be groomed as such? Had no teacher her entire life teaching her her own realm’s traditions and history? Yet she traveled all the way to Sharlayan? She lived there her whole life and she literally knows nothing about the people she wants to protect so badly. Why does she even care then? Where does even this need to protect come from if she seemingly never in her life even left Turioyollal? Her character is so 1-dimensional that it hurts. She reminded me if Dominic Toretto with her yapping about family constantly.
@@thenameisalreadyused5046 She was Sheltered her whole life and only when her Dad wanted her to see the world was she allowed out in it. She starts loving the people after she visit them by working for them.
@@thenameisalreadyused5046 finally, someone has said it 😂
I really enjoyed Wuk Lamat. Reminds me of Naruto and Luffy. A positive force thats then tested in the second half. The first half of the story reminds me of some classic films like the great race. Its comical and fun but still fines ways to scratch at issues beneath its surface to explore some darker issues. I will say that it did feel like it dragged on a bit, but that might be on me. Im used to modern cinematic story telling which is to get to the plot points as quick as possible, and it often kept me from enjoying the deep aspects of the story. I mean who can really say they did all the side quest content as they leveled in this modern era of meta gaming.
I think people set really bizarre expectations for DT after seeing S9 and the trailer. Imo the pacing for the first half was perfect, it gave time for new characters to breath and allowed me to care about the four contestants plus Galool ja ja. I never expected to care about mamool ja characters but DT pulled it off.
With Wuk Lamat, I was 100% of the same opinion going into DT, she would never make a good leader etc etc but they did a really great, realistic job of building her up from an admittedly pathetic leader to the only person in the running I could ever see being dawnservant save for maybe koana lol.
Shalooani was my favorite part of the entire expansion I think because it was just pure WoL adventure for the first time (save for part of 6.1) in AGES. Wanting a payoff with the golden city immediately again just seems like a victim of strange expectations.
I know you're only just getting to the last half but the pacing imo gets significantly faster to the point where it suffers. Very cool battles and music though!
Bad takes all around.
Pacing was dreadful.
Wuk lamat didn't grow
I mean I dont blame people for having weird expectations, the dev team promised a "vacation episode", exploring the new world and going back to our adventuring roots, as well as some possible conflict between the scions over the trials, but like none of that happened.
-The Vacation Episode we were promised is abandoned fairly quickly and the final quarter
retreads way too much ground from a previous expansion
-We only get to explore on our own without some big dumb cat on a leash for ONE short zone. (Funnily enough my fav one of the lot) The rest of the time she never leaves us alone until some actual work needs to be done then she randomly farts off waiting to take the credit when the WoL gets back from what ever busy work the devs decided needs to be done to stretch out this MSQ play time.
-The conflict between the scions they promised amounted to Thancred causing a cave in on the fist dungeon then after that we were constantly teaming up till Koana got fed up of trying to be an important character in Dawntrail and just let his attention hog of a sister take over.
as for Wuk Lamat shes literally the same character she was at the start, she didn't change or grow everyone else around her were forced to accept HER toddler level views of the world, she made the whole expansion MSQ a slog for me. Pushing my character into the background as nothing more than a babysitter was infuriating to say nothing of the bullshit she pulls in the final Trial to not even allow me to have the final boss to myself.
The one positive I can really say about this expansion so far is the actual Zone/Dungeon and Trial design was fun, and the music was great as always. But there needs to be some serious course correction going forward for the MSQ , lets hope the patches push Wuk Lamat far into the background and let some other people shine, removing the Stormblood writer would also be a good first step.
@@rueceless7580 "The one positive I can really say about this expansion so far is the actual Zone/Dungeon and Trial design was fun, and the music was great as always."
ooh the thing that we all wanted compared to prior expansions. Oh wait but at the sacrifice of the MSQ :3
@@lostvayne9146"we all wanted" Huh?
Okay I'm going to need to see evidence of you contacting every single player across Final Fantasy 14, every country too to back that wild claim up. XD
In all seriousness how about we just have both the MSQ narrative AND the game play design be of equal quality, you know whats expected from game development on a basic level?
@@rueceless7580 Most complaints have been on a personal level I feel. All these people saying theyll stop plus the healer strikes makes me laugh lol
Dawntrail pretty much feels like ARR all over again. It's a slow burn, as ARR was as there are expositions to every major plot, and not just the world building, but to the overall arch of the storyline, as we can forsee where the story is going. And I agree with you....first half, to me, was quite boring and ridiculously long and arduous. I felt like I was "returning to the Waking Sands" all over again by doing all those "chores" for Wuk Lamat. The 2nd half felt more in line with the better parts of Stormblood and I really think it picked up storywise. So completely agree with how Dawntrail came to be. Plus, I'm not sure if Square Enix's involvement with Sweet Baby Inc has anything to do with it, but it focused way too much on Wuk Lamat rather than the Scions and the WoL. Also Ishikawa-san did not write 7.0. Someone on her writing team wrote 7.0. She is just spearheading the writing team. Wuk Lamat is the new Minfilia. There, I said it. And we all know how much everyone hated Minfilia.
This is one of the worst takes I’ve heard every point you mentioned is the reasons I am hearing people like it
Have you played it and if so what parts of it did you like specifically?