Hydaelyn is amazing enough... Why is there a need to break it apart both in and outside lore. Aside just serving as glorified marketing that is...?
Don't get me wrong, i know Nier is amazing and we all love it, but Nier is Nier, Final Fantasy XIV should take that XIV a bit more seriously, is after all a main entry. And is starting to feel like it has less and less of "original".
"Until our friend returns."
We might be leaving Eorzea for good, or at least our version of it.... To go and be a Warrior of Darkness somewhere else. A perfect justification to split everything even further, as Hydaelyn is starting to feel less like a universe and more like a metaverse. Are we some forgotten library of Record Keeper?
Sorry, this is just sad.
We could be going to Meracydia, visit Tavnair, explore Nagxia, Dalmasca proper, there is a lot of areas we haven't really explored in Eorzea itself. We could go to the north towards Garlemald, we could go towards sharlayan, there is always the northern isles and aside Meracydia to the southern emisphere (i think it's above the equator?) and the whole new world thats aparently being reached by both eorzean and othardian explorers from two completely diferent coasts.... Hydaelyn looks really cool on it's own. Ivallician architecture was familiar enough for most of us, and it was reinterpreted in a good way which was basically only thanks to it being so closely tied to the main story towards the end... I think it was good but shouldn't be repeated, maybe it should keep as our fill of Final Fantasy "fan servicing" good enough already, lets be XIV.
The Binding Coil, Crystal Tower were both praised as very indepth related to our lore, and the emotional bagage of Bahamut and it's fitting in XIV is just too much. We will probably get anything like that again.
Void Ark tried to be Hydaelyn, and i honestly loved it, all voidsent stuff is amazing really and i feel like we could be exploring all those avenues a lot more. But it also was underwhelming in many aspects, because exploration is a huge part in RPGs. And exploring whole "regions" as small, time limited duties, is bad in general... We need more exploration, more maps.
Hydaelyn is huge, we should be exploring what we have instead of giving our backs to that and fighting things that are so alien... No matter the writting mind you, it's just so unfitting... I'm so torn with this whole expansion.


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