Rating the end patches separately because most of them are, indeed, peak. The feeling of utter hopelessness as your allies are whisked away and the Garleans bear down, all the while with another phenomenal capstone dungeon where you tear through Garlean lines accompanied by various heroes you've met in your adventure thus far.
What a banger of a patch. Probably has one of my favorite sequences in the entire game so far, which is pretty nice considering I started losing faith in the story during Stormblood.
Finally, Stormblood is done.
Absolute high-point of 4.x: seeing Varis absolutely destroying the Eorzean Alliance's rhetoric of "we're 100% always the good guys". The Emperor does have some very funny ideas about what is going to happen to the world once the Ascians get what they want—but, then again, when has eugenics been remotely logic?
This final patch is also narratively very well-crafted: the dwindling Scions together with the formal return of Zenos builds up to a quick and satisfying climax, which itself leads us smoothly into the doors of 5.0.
Absolute high-point of 4.x: seeing Varis absolutely destroying the Eorzean Alliance's rhetoric of "we're 100% always the good guys". The Emperor does have some very funny ideas about what is going to happen to the world once the Ascians get what they want—but, then again, when has eugenics been remotely logic?
This final patch is also narratively very well-crafted: the dwindling Scions together with the formal return of Zenos builds up to a quick and satisfying climax, which itself leads us smoothly into the doors of 5.0.
BRING ON SHADOWBRINGERS.
besides that, holy fuck the post-patch content has been cracked, the raids, the quests, even MSQ, everything was just phenomenal.
besides that, holy fuck the post-patch content has been cracked, the raids, the quests, even MSQ, everything was just phenomenal.
God damn what an ending to Stormblood's patches, onward to shadowbringers and god damn am I excited to see where things go from here
10/10
10/10