Weakest on story but set the bar for bombastic and epic trials for the future.

i dont think that stormblood is as bad as alot of people say. as a whole it improves GREATLY on gameplay aspects of the game and has the most fun raids and content ive done yet. the story falls short in many places for me. however, it still has some really phenomenal moments and characters. good..just not as good as heavensward was.

After sinking 500 hours into this game, patch 4.1 has got to be the first time I've enjoyed anything about ffxiv's story

Too padded out and a villain that overstayed their welcome.

I like stormblood even if it's the weird middle point of the storyline.
Lots of great fights though.

Over hated & under rated by the community despite having the best raid design & class design to date

The characters are great. End game patches go hard. Yotsuyu is one of my faves ever.

I might be biased because I love the characters, but this was a pretty good expansion. Really liked the story and what they did with the characters, and even though the base msq kinda dragged a little, the raid and post game msq made up for it.

Gameplay-wise, it's solid, it's FF14, the trials and raids and whatnot are always enjoyable.

Story-wise, it's exemplary whenever a villain is on screen, basically a snoozefest otherwise. FF14's story has so many great characters and stories and moments but it genuinely feels like its writers cannot tell the difference between the good characters with depth and the bland characters with one or fewer personality traits.

This "nuanced racism" sucked. "i got mistreated growing up, and one day i saw someone from my race get abused in the street, and it made me horny. now i want to genocide my entire race. the writers want you to feel bad for me" SHUT UP! I cannot believe there are people out there who think this is a good story about racism... because it has the most unrealistic portrayals and reasons behind the character's racism.

Foi meio cansativo na primeira metade, mas depois engrenou bem legal.

Stormblood's story unfortunately doesn't live up to the high standard set by HW, that being said, end game content/set pieces and general trials in Stormblood are miles ahead of HW. It would have been nice to have a better balance between story and aesthetics but the expansion is not bad by any means.

hot take this one is good (It set up the dual storytelling device while also fleshing out the world properly)

I wrapped up FFXIV’s second expansion, Stormblood, right at the beginning of the year. While the main story can get a bit muddy in the middle I loved the liberation arc and eastern-inspired locales. The best part was honestly the post-game story content, delivering a heartbreaking character-driven finale and a ramp-up of incredible intrigue leading into the next expansion: Shadowbringers.

Full Review: https://neoncloudff.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/now-playing-january-2021-edition/

Lyse was kinda being a white savior ngl. But otherwise probably my favorite because of Gosetsu.

About as boring as a realm reborn

needs more doma less lyse

Good music, good dungeons, good environments, so-so characters. It felt like they were waiting until the postgame to make Yotsuyu a compelling character, and Zenos is less complex than a megaman antagonist

GAMEPLAY BECOME BETTER STORY BECOME ARR rip gaius

Weakest expansion after ARR, but still great

5 stars for the music and Zenos

(but please learn how to write female characters)

Enjoyed the Doma half more than Heavensward. The Gyr Albania half falls a little flat for me sometimes but Zenos is hype. Best post story yet. Still killing it on the optional content too.

As messy as the launch was and how fairly standard the story comes across due to previous and later highs, Stormblood was some of the most experimental days of the MMO's years. The modern state of the game would not exist without many of the changes and lessons learned through Stormblood.

This expansion was the first time in this game that I felt the story start to drag. Thankfully, Zenos was a captivating villain, and the climax stuck the landing.

I love me a good rebel story. Cool departure from the established setting that focuses on the down to Earth conflict.

Asahi my beloved.

Doma was cool. Ala mihgo was kinda garbo. Return to ivalice was great (but really it was just because of fan service for a better experience). At the moment of what I've played, Heavensward was a lot better. Hoping Shadowbringers and Endwalker bring it back.

Original thoughts were that Stormblood wasn't quite as exciting for me as Heavensward because I was rushing to try to catch up before Endwalker released at this point, but looking back Stormblood still holds up really well.

Glad I was too late for Raubahn EX.

Yugiri and the domans are cool I guess