We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Ameela]

And when you think about that, if you remove all the water you get Azys La 2.0 but with islands instead floating ones. Big pieces of land with not much on them and a ton of other little pieces of land randomly placed that have no purpose.

Azys Lla is one of the best designed areas in the game and I'm not about to sit here without defnding it.

On the surface they do look kinda similar yes, but there are many things you miss by simply comparing the maps side by side, namely the fact that Ruby Sea, for the most part, is pretty barren, aside from the odd cave the different islands don't offer nuch aside from what you can see at surface level. Azys Lla on the other hand has each island being absolutely packed with different structures, each with various levels of verticality and density. Seriously, take the time to actually explore the zone instead of flying over it and you'll see for yourself, each island in Azys Lla could have probably been an area of its own with how much is crammed in there.

In fact I'd even go as far as to say that it's completely wasted on this game, considering once you're done with the story there's no reason to go back there. It'd work really well as a stage in an action or 3D Metroidvania game or something.

[Magic-Mal]

In fact I'd even go as far as to say that it's completely wasted on this game, considering once you're done with the story there's no reason to go back there. It'd work really well as a stage in an action or 3D Metroidvania game or something.

That was actually my point lol. In my OP, I talk about Azys Lla and how it has a bunch of little places and those bunker/storage-like buildings with opening doors that I liked. But in the end, there's still nothing in it besides the sightseeing log. :/