Since you can already tell I am not too pleased with my purchase this expansion -- the first time ever for me in a mainline Final Fantasy -- I'll start off with what I liked.
Graphics: wonderful
Battle mechanics: huge improvement, very fun
Landscapes: cool, varied, interesting, beautiful
Themes: mmm I'm not a huge fan of so closely mirroring Mayan/Incan legends and real world lore but it was well done. The FF9 theme.. have to save that part for later
vocals: amazingly well done
On it's own as some random freemium MMO, I wouldn't have anything to complain about but I wouldn't pay more than $20 on lifetime premiums before moving on either.
First of all I'm going to be brutally honest, knowing that many will be too scared to voice this opinion, but Square, there is a line between catgirl and furry and you done crossed it and she had no other redeeming qualities. Now for a few sure great, do your thing not trying to stop ya but I mean lets be real the appeal is not broad. Wuk Lamat is perhaps the worst character ever conceived not just in appearance but in a complete lack of substance.
Yet that lack of substance is not to blame on character design, but holistically exists to the entire franchise lately. You can't be friends with everyone. You can't just constantly nonstop re-use this pattern:
- We're the "good guys" we don't believe in fighting
- We're going to unite the tribes!
- Anyone standing in our way is gonna die
- Yey bad guys are all converted or dead! Let's dance
- By the way, everyone interesting is going to die to give the story weight, because we have no real stakes.
shut up. seriously stop it. this is not story telling. this is lazy.
this is most definitely NOT NEW. and NOT happy go lucky. after the llamas, which had some funny moments, everything was just constantly shoving down your throat how you are the arbiters of what is natural and not, and boy everyone is gonna die - in fact YOU go be the one to genocide them WoL
great. great. fun times???? wut????
oh cause it's some rabbit's wish. guess what I don't care about her dumb wish.
This is supposed to be a fantasy game not a constant lecture in entropy. I thought Endwalker was well done but not if you can't let go of that constant freaking nihilism. It wasn't enough to destroy the stories like this, but it's been creeping more and more and more into every FF release since ff10. Good grief! get over yourself whoever has a crush on the heat death of the universe. get a room already. We have reality for that crap. This world is for us to feel like epic, adventuring, fate destroying legends. Fantasy. Escapism.
Hear, Think and Feel what I'm saying cause you are losing the plot and pandering to a loud 2% of your player base. I rarely speak up but when I do, you can bet your butts that if you A/B test my mentality vs lets make bahamut a ... well never mind just you will make more money, better stories and happier fans.
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Graphics: wonderful
Battle mechanics: huge improvement, very fun
Landscapes: cool, varied, interesting, beautiful
Themes: mmm I'm not a huge fan of so closely mirroring Mayan/Incan legends and real world lore but it was well done. The FF9 theme.. have to save that part for later
vocals: amazingly well done
On it's own as some random freemium MMO, I wouldn't have anything to complain about but I wouldn't pay more than $20 on lifetime premiums before moving on either.
First of all I'm going to be brutally honest, knowing that many will be too scared to voice this opinion, but Square, there is a line between catgirl and furry and you done crossed it and she had no other redeeming qualities. Now for a few sure great, do your thing not trying to stop ya but I mean lets be real the appeal is not broad. Wuk Lamat is perhaps the worst character ever conceived not just in appearance but in a complete lack of substance.
Yet that lack of substance is not to blame on character design, but holistically exists to the entire franchise lately. You can't be friends with everyone. You can't just constantly nonstop re-use this pattern:
- We're the "good guys" we don't believe in fighting
- We're going to unite the tribes!
- Anyone standing in our way is gonna die
- Yey bad guys are all converted or dead! Let's dance
- By the way, everyone interesting is going to die to give the story weight, because we have no real stakes.
shut up. seriously stop it. this is not story telling. this is lazy.
this is most definitely NOT NEW. and NOT happy go lucky. after the llamas, which had some funny moments, everything was just constantly shoving down your throat how you are the arbiters of what is natural and not, and boy everyone is gonna die - in fact YOU go be the one to genocide them WoL
great. great. fun times???? wut????
oh cause it's some rabbit's wish. guess what I don't care about her dumb wish.
This is supposed to be a fantasy game not a constant lecture in entropy. I thought Endwalker was well done but not if you can't let go of that constant freaking nihilism. It wasn't enough to destroy the stories like this, but it's been creeping more and more and more into every FF release since ff10. Good grief! get over yourself whoever has a crush on the heat death of the universe. get a room already. We have reality for that crap. This world is for us to feel like epic, adventuring, fate destroying legends. Fantasy. Escapism.
Hear, Think and Feel what I'm saying cause you are losing the plot and pandering to a loud 2% of your player base. I rarely speak up but when I do, you can bet your butts that if you A/B test my mentality vs lets make bahamut a ... well never mind just you will make more money, better stories and happier fans.
Continue reading...