Need more Hildibrand

SE.. can you please make more Hildibrand adventures.. i loved story and want more..

There was going to be on in Shadowbringers. You can see the places where it was going to be, people in towns talking about a great detective, and a GENTLEMAN, and other such things.

Then it got cut for time, and because they thought we were bored of it.

I hope we end up with it eventually, just like DSW got finished, eventually.

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Originally Posted by ICountFrom0

Then it got cut for time, and because they thought we were bored of it.

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Correction:
It was cut because they were burned out on making Hildebrand storylines.
It was the Deep Dungeon that was cut because they thought we were bored of it.

We will probably get him back in Endwalker, was definitely disappointed that they had everything set up (Gil dragging him to another world) and all we got was a rare appearance in Heroes' Gauntlet.

They did say they've already got ideas for Hildibrand in 6.x so we should be seeing his return.

I stumbled across this questline and had no idea it would be so fun - would be great to see more.

He does sometimes make a cameo in the Hero's Gauntlet dungeon. Dunno if OP has gotten to it yet, so possible spoiler.

Specifically, he sometimes appears in the place of one of the summoned hero spirits in the background. It's a callback to a wordplay joke in the ARR quests that was lost in translation, where an NPC confuses "Warrior of Light" ("Hikari no Senshi") with "Gentleman of Light" ("Hikari no Shinshi").

i'd gladly sacrifice blu mage to get more hildi

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Originally Posted by Acelyn

i'd gladly sacrifice blu mage to get more hildi

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Considering they're both developed by different departments, such a tradeoff isn't really even an option.

My guess they planned Hildibrand for ShB but then government lockdowns happened.

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Originally Posted by rxantos

My guess they planned Hildibrand for ShB but then government lockdowns happened.

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They said they thought he was getting stale and couldn't find any story ideas that made sense in context with Shadowbringers. While they gave it thought, I wouldn't say it was actually planned then abandoned.

They also seem to keep underestimating just how much a large part of the player base enjoy him. He's a nice piece of comic relief to offset what sometimes gets dark.

I was a bit disappointed to not have a Hildibrand storyline with Shadowbringers. Though I guess I can see the reason why from a story telling perspective. We didnt really get a new region in our world and instead crossed over to another shard. While alot of the Hildibrand story contains a fair amount of nonsense having them end up on another shard would probably have pushed it a bit too far.

Then again one version of Gilgamesh that we saw in their mobile game FF Mobius was able to break the 4th wall and appeared to know about events, locations, and characters from every game in the series lol. When asked about how long the stories are he says something like "Oh its about 15 chapters not counting spin offs and side stories"

He's traveling with Gilgamesh, this is the same greg that was in the other final fantasy games. Not a different version of him THIS one, all the games, same greg. He's a known shard hopper, they set that up in advance so they COULD have an excuse he'd be on the first. And yes, that includes the mobius one, so that means all of the gregs are 4th wall aware as well.

They said the reason for not doing it was they didn't have any good ideas for it and didn't want to force it. SB Hildy already felt a bit forced and doing something more forced and half assed would only irritate players. I'm glad they postponed it so we could get more quality Hildy quests in EW.