Are y'all expecting too much from Dawntrail's story?

Truth? Like looking deep within sort of truth?

Yea, I definitely expected too much. That's totally on me and I have since tempered my expectations. I was truly expecting Heavensward\Shadowbringers. Since it's an 'off' expac, and that's been their tradition. Launch and ARR were meh. Heavensward was absolutely epic. Stormblood was meh. Shadowbringers raised the bar - I still get chills thinking about what an amazing take it was on our traditional dark versus light battles when going in I wasn't expecting much more than a cheesy XI Dynamis rip off. Endwalker tried valiantly to continue and felt in many ways like a DLC for Shadowbringers, but even using the same score for literally everything couldn't carry a weaker overall story. So, I give that a meh.

Which by my count should have put Dawntrail back at that epic level. But, instead of being logged in and playing, I'm here, seriously contemplating whether it's worth the sub anymore when it seems there's much more about the game that I dislike, than like. Even discovering a new land feels forced, like I don't get to just hop outside and check things out at my leisure, no I have to follow the main character all over the starting city. It's taking a crazy long time to get to a point where I feel like I'm playing the game rather than just watching a movie, and that's not interesting or compelling to me. I like cutscenes, but we have too many. FAR too many, and in too many inopportune places. And unskippable cutscenes in solo content, no, that's not acceptable. That just makes me want to get up and literally walk away from the game.

Sigh. I miss Final Fantasy. I'm not sure I recognize what this is.

I cant really say why without spoiling the story for you, so unless you dont care about the story, this thread is a bit difficult to respond to.

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Originally Posted by Aneshda

I think SE should apologize for this bad written Story and give all Players who bought the Expansion at least 30 Days Free Gametime as compensation.
If Yoshi has more Quests with Wuk Lamat, then trash them and let others write something new. Cause 2 - 2.5 Years with this Story is not acceptable.

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They should take away my 3 month sub I bought instead because I am quickly losing my interest to play. The story has made my mood so foul that the gameplay is the only saving grace and now they're threatening to take away my fun with Viper.

Some of the zone songs are either just straight up not new or a remix of old songs, I dont think that ever happened before, they just got lazy

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Originally Posted by genuine_stranger

Now that you mention it, I can't remember any music from the songs, except the chill beats from the 2nd hub city and espescially 2nd trial, that one is probably one of the best themes they have made.

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I still remember the absurd Lion King music that occasionally popped in out of nowhere in a couple of cutscenes, like the Rite of Succession.
"It's the ciiiiiircle of liiiiiiife!"