Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Review
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Sit back as I delve into the world of Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, exploring the rich narrative, stunning visuals, and immersive gameplay that brings this expansion to life. Discover the journey of your Warrior of Light as they face new challenges and adventures in this ever-evolving world. Whether you're a fan of MMORPGs or just love a compelling story, this review will give you an in-depth look at what makes Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail an experience to witness.
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It's been fantastic to read everyones comments and thoughts on Dawntrail so far - I hope to see much more and I appreciate all the growing support on the hard work that goes into creating these videos 💙
Natsuko Ishikawa, the writer of the MSQ from the Doma half of stormblood through all of Shadowbringers and Endwalker moved into some sort of "supervisory" role. The MSQ for Dawntrail was written by the team that wrote the Sky Pirates alliance raids in Heavensward and the Werlyt trial series in Shadowbringers.
The whole story was written like a young adult novel, targeting an 11 - 14 year old audience. The age of the average gamer is 35 (I'm a good bit above this) and it's a 37 year old series. The previous expansion was written with this in mind. DT did not know its target audience. In this expansion, we offer help and friendship to people with generations old grudges who are in a struggle for their survival and real reasoning behind their strife and they just drop everything and have a love in because Wuk Lamat said something naïve and corny. One expansion back, we offer help and friendship to people with generations old grudges who are in a struggle for their survival and immediately two children run away to get mauled by animals and die rather than accept help and Quintus literally puts a gun in his mouth. This new direction was not the call.
Also, the voice acting direction was very sub par. It was the worst directed and ill fitting voice acting since A Realm Reborn. This wasn't because of the voice actors at all, they were poorly directed.
My friend and I are almost certain the Hildebrand team had a big hand in the MSQ. Due to the little joke emotes and so on. It’s distracting.
I mean in this expansion people used souls as a currency, I think that's more fucked up than quintus as well as the mamool ja part where they literally killed many mamool ja babies just to create a two headed mamool ja
I feel like it’s unfair to compare Garlemald to well… anywhere. 😂
Garlemald had layers of indoctrination and xenophobic propaganda baked into just about every aspect of their society. “Old grudges” is an oversimplification of the situation happening there lol.
I’d say you’re being too kind. Some of the early succession trials writing felt on par with children’s educational programming, ie Sesame Street and the like
I don't usually mind flawed characters if I can understand and empathize with them. Dawntrail's flawed characters are written in such a way where they don't feel like real people at all but instead walking plot devices with questionable-at-best decision making capabilities that even
sometimes directly contradict with their personalities (in other words, doing some "huh?!" thing instead of what the player expects them to naturally do).
All this made worse by the WoL suffering "silent protagonist syndrome" where in conflicts in cutscenes, we are limited to drawing our weapons and glaring but practically doing nothing at all while watching people die. And no, not all conflicts were about respecting 1v1 dueling honor or anything, those moments I do understand if we stand and watch.
The expansion really feels like it should take place around Lv 14 of the ARR MSQ
I started off DT really liking wuk lamat, however by the time I really got going on act 2 I despised her simply because she is forced on us so much I felt less like a mentor and more like a damn babysitter. So much so that...spoilers...when she came in in the final trial I was pissed and hoping she dies. Especially with that flat voice acting in the trial. I love the new world and am excited for the patch content as long as wuk is involved as little as possible.
Pray return to the Wuking Lysemat.
😂😂😂😂
I love Koana more than Wuk, I don't hate Wuk, I just think this expansion has a lot of unnecessary talking and tbh, most of the cutscene in DT can be skip without any problem to the story..... and the pacing is bad and not make sense, we are at the door of the city of gold and then, "Hey, you found city of gold, so you can leave now", WTF? Also, at the last zone when Sphene is going to kill people for souls, what are we doing? Sightseeing, watching Mirage music fountain and having ice-cream at living memory....
Not just the worst FFXIV expansion, the worst expansion of any MMO I've played in the last 25 years. What's not getting mentioned anywhere is that crafting is dead compared to where it was a small number of years ago. The Market Boards are owned by a cartel who will instantly undercut you within minutes literally 24 / 7 on the large majority of things you can make to sell. Each item has the name of the crafter who made it. I spent a lot of time monitoring it. What looks like a random series of people selling items is a co-ordinated operation. They are working across all servers. The quickest way to spot them, which works most of the time, is that they will lower prices by a small amount to a random number eg set their price at 36,874, then the next of their accounts to 36,871, whereas most regular players will keep it rounded up to say 36,000 or 35,999. You put an item up and within a short time 4 of these have undercut you and they rotate which gets to set the lowest price. Finally you can tell when they do shift changes. At specific times of the day every day undercutting will stop for around 8 minutes. This is 24/7 365.
Most of the MSQ was basically wacky races, but I enjoyed it for what it is. It never really felt like the stakes are high or there is any real threat, which is a step down from previous expansions imho.
The power scaling is so weird lol
I have an alternative take on the four contestants.
Wuk Lamat: Hufflepuff
Koana: Ravenclaw
Bakool Ja Ja: Griffindor
Zoraal Ja: Slitherin
Yeah happlepuff we gonna make wuk lameat into sup lamat and eat her good
Thank you for the review
Yeah I disagree, We are the main character and letting us be a side character ruins the story and if this continues I don't know if i'll keep up with the story.
Blud didn't pay attention to 500 hours of story, half of the story isn't even focused on us 😂😂 havensward focused on ishgard and its people, stormblood was about liberation, shadowbringers was about saving the people of the first, end walker was the conclusion of hydalean and zodiarks fate, what are u blabbering on about. We are simply there to advance the story.
@@adamahmad8800 You're a troll
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I don't mind taking a backseat at all this time around, I loved this expansion!
Lots of other games you can go play, lots of the people posting comments on reviews don’t even play it.
that sage killed you on purpose
Time stamp?
Good review. Thanks.
I think of DT as the Scion’s summer vacation. Just a classic Rick & Morty adventure. The ending was fantastic even if the first half dragged on for a bit longer than I’d like. I loved the twist on the Golden City. I love the Viper class, I haven’t had too much of an opportunity to try Pictomancer but I love the aesthetic. Really excited to see the Arcadion. 😁
unbearable story in this one. Im not a fan of any of the ff14 story i just feel way too old for it and it doesnt click with me at all but this story and pacing is horrendous in this expac