Revelations from Patch 3.56

[CyrilLucifer]

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Sums up my thoughts entirely. It felt like a flashy action movie. Pretty and enjoyable in the moment, but without a lot of content to get me hooked for the sequel - or next expansion in this case.

What I'm most excited for in Stormblood isn't the MSQ, but the Omega raid and Ivalice.

[Rokke]

Well that was kinda anticlimactic. I expected quite a bit more considering the alliance is finally going off to war. Kept hoping one of the MSQs would trigger one of those "several cutscenes will be played in succession" warnings. In the end, while it cleaned up some lose ends, it didn't really give me anything to chew on for the next few months :c

Kudos to Aymeric for admitting that throwing the eyeballs off the bridge was a halfbaked idea though lol

[Rocl]

Given that there's only one storyline this patch I'm not going to do my spoiler within a spoiler thread.

Yda/Lyse (SOUNDS LIKE IVALICE, COINCIDENCE?) was ... okay. It mucks up some of the 1.0 stuff, but I can live with that because a lot of 1.0 stuff is a jumbled mess.

Gynewaht was very disappointing, though I'm glad he's not Arvina. I suspect we'll see him again since Nero recognized him. Perhaps his lack of respect for subordinates is supposed to indicate he's one of Zenos'.

Nero feels weird to me, though I do enjoy his cheekiness. I hope he gets ample screentime.

Why/how did the Domans instantly know "oh it's Shinryu!" and how did Zenos know the Domans knew this? A SPY? (Other than a convenient handwave because WE, the players, would know it as Shinryu)

Gosetsu was a little weird to me. Maybe it's some trope I'm unfamiliar with.

No Ascians. Really? That's very weird. This is like all of their doing--not even a "damn, Bahamut v2 didn't work!"? Elidibus where you at boy?

[KageTokage]

I was hoping we'd get more of a clue as to why we're going to be heading to the Far East presumably in the middle of our Ala Mhigo liberation effort, but all they did was imply that something is going on over in Doma there with no specifics.

[Ceasaria]

Edit: Also, Thancred was mysteriously missing the entire patch. Remember what happened the last time Thancred went missing?

Maybe he is following Omega and Shinryu during their fall to see where they will land ?

Overall I think the only highlight of this story patch was seeing it was Shinryu and the fight between him and Omega. Everything else felt like it was just dragging on... Even Nero was wondering why we haven't gone to Omega yet. In my opinion 3/4 of the story was just running around then the last bit was the only important part. Honestly it feels really rushed from what I played.

There wasn't much that surprised me this patch, the ending to this expansion was just meh and didn't really make me feel excited for what will happen next.

Completely agree !

[Mholito]

Why/how did the Domans instantly know "oh it's Shinryu!" and how did Zenos know the Domans knew this? A SPY? (Other than a convenient handwave because WE, the players, would know it as Shinryu)

I'm inclined to believe that the domans only called him Shinryu because he resembled a similar dragon from their own stories, rather than them knowing exactly what it was.

[Anonymoose]

Kudos to Aymeric for admitting that throwing the eyeballs off the bridge was a halfbaked idea though lol

Seeing as they were in the same place as the same time, Aymeric should have talked to Cid about it for a few.

Mr. "Give the 'Worthless' Tomestone to Gaius van Baelsar" probably could have told him to keep his chin up.

[Kogekigami]

I have my audio in japanese and I swear I heard Nero call omega Kawaii omega-chan.... please tell me this is a thing XD

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

Oh my, we're all kinda bummers here, aren't we?

Although, sure, it lacked the punch that 2.55 did. But I dunno - I almost prefer that the game has given us reason to continue our everyday routine, rather than hang us on a knife's edge perpetually for 3 months. We do lack the immediate impetus to go into Ala Mhigo, true, but...well, we're not going to Ala Mhigo immediately, are we? The story was fine. I'm expecting Stormblood to open with a bang.

Stray thoughts:
-Shinryu was a surprise. I'll admit I was hoping for Rhalgr, but I suppose they justified its form well enough (and I don't think we're to believe the Domans "knew what it was" so much as "they're connecting it to something they know from legend").

-I was 50/50 on there being a group instance, but figured there'd be at least a solo instance, and I wasn't wrong! I even died a couple times - I suppose Ryuji doesn't have what it takes to be a Magitek armor pilot.

-Our new Roe friend was...well, he was something. I completely agree we haven't seen the last of him, although I don't know how to feel about that at all. On the other hand, as a huge Nero fan, I'm really glad he didn't go all psycho on us. I enjoy his slimy presence too much; something about him having qualities that are objectively pretty negative and being so unrepentant about it, and yet still being allowed to ally with us, really endears him to me. As for his apparent change of heart after Crystal Tower...I dunno, but I'm kinda glad he's not gone all soft. He's developed in that he seems to have largely moved past his obsession with Cid, but he still gets to be smarmy. I'm calling it a win.

-The Empire has let the Wall go, then? Or perhaps we're playing into Zenos' hand. That dialog definitely implied a spy...

-Gosetsu came off as kind of...I dunno. A very particularly kind of Japanese slapstick. I'm not sure he translates great. I'm on the fence about him. Speaking of him, though - do we know what race he is? He's doing Roe emotes, but I'm not sure how much into that I should be reading.

-Speaking of: Gosetsu seems convinced that it's time for Yugiri to return home. For what, I wonder? He never really elaborated. Nor did Yugiri - does she consider her debt repaid, her time in Eorzea done? She didn't outright agree to go with Gosetsu. Prediction: they'll stick around just long enough for us to need to go to Othard as well, and everything will sync up nice and dandy and we'll hitch a ride. Get some reeeeeal good bonding time on Gosetsu's little boat.

-A lack of Ascians was pretty surprising, even if we knew they'd be taking a breather.

So yeah. Certainly not the same insanity of the Ul'Dahn Banquet, , but plenty to wonder and speculate about as it is, and lots of reasons to justify lollygagging about Eorzea and working on my crafting in the meantime.

[fantasticm]

Underwhelming. What didn't feel rushed felt forced.