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Very mixed but looking forward to Dawntrail and Lightbringers, (the alliance story was decent I thought the raid story was better)
I liked the beginning quests (the ones in the first), I also really enjoyed the trial and the dungeon. The dawntrail setup after the zero arc concludes is really interesting and funny that its just ffxiv hxh succession war.
I think this might be the worst story arc in the game post ARR and its really a shame because I really like 6.1 and 6.2 I think they were super solid catch up and setup. I really love how 6.2 introduces you properly to the voidsent and how they work learning about them was so fun and exciting. I feel like the rest of the story should have been more of a look at the void with a lot more writing and lore given to the arc-specific characters. this whole arc in its entirety feels really hollow and empty.
I feel like XIV has a lot of hokey positive characters in its cast, its made a lot of sense in the past and for some it almost felt like payoff in a way due to some growing into it. in this later half of the arc something about how they were like there powah of friendship felt really hollow and felt like a story geared towards children. I feel like Zero's character growth was especially jarring and I personally found how she was self serving when we met her was really interesting and a nice change of pace, I'm not saying I wanted her to stay that way but it would have been cool if they made more moments of her changing her old ways more subtle with a big moment to really push it at the end akin to something like Vincent FF7. I think I like golbez more but still almost all of the depth here feels like something relegated to a decent alliance/trial/raid series story (it seriously feels like this would have been better off as a side trial story) ALSO if anything the raid series story has felt like more of a proper MSQ payoff than anything in the actual p-patch MSQ
also everyone whos doomer storywise needs to chill the fuck out, this is like a single instance of the story sucking to this degree, there's legitimately a possibility for Zero, Golbez and the entire void Shadowbringers 2 setup that's been laidout these patches to be great and have really good payoff for when the time comes for the spotlight to be shining on the void again.
Anyways gaia O_O
I liked the beginning quests (the ones in the first), I also really enjoyed the trial and the dungeon. The dawntrail setup after the zero arc concludes is really interesting and funny that its just ffxiv hxh succession war.
I think this might be the worst story arc in the game post ARR and its really a shame because I really like 6.1 and 6.2 I think they were super solid catch up and setup. I really love how 6.2 introduces you properly to the voidsent and how they work learning about them was so fun and exciting. I feel like the rest of the story should have been more of a look at the void with a lot more writing and lore given to the arc-specific characters. this whole arc in its entirety feels really hollow and empty.
I feel like XIV has a lot of hokey positive characters in its cast, its made a lot of sense in the past and for some it almost felt like payoff in a way due to some growing into it. in this later half of the arc something about how they were like there powah of friendship felt really hollow and felt like a story geared towards children. I feel like Zero's character growth was especially jarring and I personally found how she was self serving when we met her was really interesting and a nice change of pace, I'm not saying I wanted her to stay that way but it would have been cool if they made more moments of her changing her old ways more subtle with a big moment to really push it at the end akin to something like Vincent FF7. I think I like golbez more but still almost all of the depth here feels like something relegated to a decent alliance/trial/raid series story (it seriously feels like this would have been better off as a side trial story) ALSO if anything the raid series story has felt like more of a proper MSQ payoff than anything in the actual p-patch MSQ
also everyone whos doomer storywise needs to chill the fuck out, this is like a single instance of the story sucking to this degree, there's legitimately a possibility for Zero, Golbez and the entire void Shadowbringers 2 setup that's been laidout these patches to be great and have really good payoff for when the time comes for the spotlight to be shining on the void again.
Anyways gaia O_O