First of all, (rant incoming)
I really liked it. From the moment you pick up the stone and “Fray” (or our darkside posing as Fray) teaching you, to the thoughts Fray tells you to listen to and to the story arcs, I’ve liked all of it.
Fray, or Esteem or how they usually use your own name gave me a layer to the WoL that I didn’t think about at first. (I’ll just call them Fray for simplicity).
I didn’t mind all the arr fetch quests, but Fray being angry that we jump at every quest and every ask for help makes so much sense and it boiling over into a fight for the body of the WoL (iirc) was great, because the darker side was so tired of being ignored.
To the quests with Sid and Rielle (who grew on me very quickly), to fighting rielles mother, to the moogles kicking Sid around, to Myste (Haurchefant and Ysayle I miss you) splitting our crystal in half and temporarily bringing back the shades of others, speaking to us during the fight that Fray joined, made me feel things.
When I reached lv80, I was thrilled to see that (supposedly) Fray fights alongside you, I thought that it meant that the WoL finally stopped shoving those feelings away that Fray pops up to help out.
And now I just randomly came across the lv80 quest, and I really liked seeing the people we helped out, and that the guy who yelled at us in La Noscea turned his life around and sent us a letter. And of course, actually seeing Fray again after the lv70 quest. Talking together and standing back to back like in the first confrontation at lv50.
Generally, I loved it. The quest made me cry on some occasions. It made me smile that the Warrior of Light (and Darkness) has a dark side that they accepted in the end, that everything from arr to Shadowbringers (where I am at the end at) wasn’t something to be shrugged off and meaningless.
This is very very high up on the job quests I have done to this point and I don’t think any other job quest line has made me feel like this in general.
And now to the end of the rant and the question;
I saw in the journal that the little trick doesn’t count? Are we not summoning Esteem/Darkside to fight alongside us? Is it just our shadow and not our darkside?
EDIT: some small clarification and adding the journal entry:
Time to go. I don't know when we'll do this again─if we'll ever do this again. The little trick you've learned doesn't count, you know. But even if this is our end, it won't change what we had. I love you more than you'll ever know. Be well.
(Thanks for any answers and please share your own thoughts if you want, I’d love to hear them)
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I really liked it. From the moment you pick up the stone and “Fray” (or our darkside posing as Fray) teaching you, to the thoughts Fray tells you to listen to and to the story arcs, I’ve liked all of it.
Fray, or Esteem or how they usually use your own name gave me a layer to the WoL that I didn’t think about at first. (I’ll just call them Fray for simplicity).
I didn’t mind all the arr fetch quests, but Fray being angry that we jump at every quest and every ask for help makes so much sense and it boiling over into a fight for the body of the WoL (iirc) was great, because the darker side was so tired of being ignored.
To the quests with Sid and Rielle (who grew on me very quickly), to fighting rielles mother, to the moogles kicking Sid around, to Myste (Haurchefant and Ysayle I miss you) splitting our crystal in half and temporarily bringing back the shades of others, speaking to us during the fight that Fray joined, made me feel things.
When I reached lv80, I was thrilled to see that (supposedly) Fray fights alongside you, I thought that it meant that the WoL finally stopped shoving those feelings away that Fray pops up to help out.
And now I just randomly came across the lv80 quest, and I really liked seeing the people we helped out, and that the guy who yelled at us in La Noscea turned his life around and sent us a letter. And of course, actually seeing Fray again after the lv70 quest. Talking together and standing back to back like in the first confrontation at lv50.
Generally, I loved it. The quest made me cry on some occasions. It made me smile that the Warrior of Light (and Darkness) has a dark side that they accepted in the end, that everything from arr to Shadowbringers (where I am at the end at) wasn’t something to be shrugged off and meaningless.
This is very very high up on the job quests I have done to this point and I don’t think any other job quest line has made me feel like this in general.
And now to the end of the rant and the question;
I saw in the journal that the little trick doesn’t count? Are we not summoning Esteem/Darkside to fight alongside us? Is it just our shadow and not our darkside?
EDIT: some small clarification and adding the journal entry:
Time to go. I don't know when we'll do this again─if we'll ever do this again. The little trick you've learned doesn't count, you know. But even if this is our end, it won't change what we had. I love you more than you'll ever know. Be well.
(Thanks for any answers and please share your own thoughts if you want, I’d love to hear them)
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