This review contains spoilers
i found out that you can review each individual patch so redoing this one for just 6.0
if not for the incredible emotional payoff brought about by the story (yes, I AM a sucker for the same 3 songs being played over and over again in cutscenes but with a sad piano melody this time), this expansion would be a 2/5. completely throws the entire world into the garbage in favor of a blank slate for 7.0 in literally every aspect. there is countless plot threads that COULD be explored in greater detail which are dismissed with no effort. every mystery of the world was solved in the blink of an eye. incredibly disappointing
dungeons are universally "Walk Down A Hallway And Pull 2 Packs Of Monsters Two Or Three Times And Then Fight A Boss, Repeat This Three Times", trials are... fine? and the first raid tier has some of the best armor/weapon designs in the game. all in all, each individual part of endwalker is either some of the best there has ever been for XIV, or the absolute worst. and as we get further into the individual patches, we lean more towards "the absolute worst"
but again, good emotional payoff and I am a sucker for that
if not for the incredible emotional payoff brought about by the story (yes, I AM a sucker for the same 3 songs being played over and over again in cutscenes but with a sad piano melody this time), this expansion would be a 2/5. completely throws the entire world into the garbage in favor of a blank slate for 7.0 in literally every aspect. there is countless plot threads that COULD be explored in greater detail which are dismissed with no effort. every mystery of the world was solved in the blink of an eye. incredibly disappointing
dungeons are universally "Walk Down A Hallway And Pull 2 Packs Of Monsters Two Or Three Times And Then Fight A Boss, Repeat This Three Times", trials are... fine? and the first raid tier has some of the best armor/weapon designs in the game. all in all, each individual part of endwalker is either some of the best there has ever been for XIV, or the absolute worst. and as we get further into the individual patches, we lean more towards "the absolute worst"
but again, good emotional payoff and I am a sucker for that