The ending to Stormblood...

[Fynlar]

Man, I don't know how to use the spoiler tags on these forums.


I also don't get why this had to be split into two parts; this felt excessively short. Even Hildibrand got more attention than this.


The "roleplaying" fights are all extremely watered down versions of the classes' usual kits so that people who don't play the classes themselves aren't overwhelmed; don't know why people are so surprised by that by now. It's no real different than when you do something like hop into a magitek armor or gobmachine; you get at most 4 different commands to use, a very simplified setup of your usual 30-40 hotbar buttons or whatever it is people roll these days.

[Nariel]

I'm so disapointed by this ending...

Like for real its bad. reaaaaaaally bad. And not bad in the "haha its going bad for the world mouahahaha" way, no its bad like its not even ending anything. There is no conclusion, they sure need to tease Shadowbringer but as it is for me Stormblood ended with Tsukuyomi and the rest is shadowbringer teasing.

Two scene made me genuinely facepalm because of how lame it was...

Last second save by Estinien its so damn cliché and infuriating to once again having our victory on Zenos denied because plot, give us a break, he's not that cool of an antagonist, time to turn that damn page and have some fresh air.

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Flash news : garlemald emperor is a bad guy. wow. WOW. No shit Sherlock of the years, just miss a tad more dramatic music and some lightning to make him look even more look like he is evil.

Oh I almost forgot :

Playing Hien is piss poor gameplay experience, 3 skill... what a warrior... what a leader... Playing Y'shtola was fun because it was fresh, playing Alphinaud was already so damn boring "look at me I'm spamming ruin cause I can't do anything remotely usefull please kill me" and now the worst SAM ever. If its for ARR lv 5 class gameplay you can make it a cutscene and spare us that lame attempt at fan-service for uninspired Dev's

[Gihwezi]

The "roleplaying" fights are all extremely watered down versions of the classes' usual kits so that people who don't play the classes themselves aren't overwhelmed; don't know why people are so surprised by that by now. It's no real different than when you do something like hop into a magitek armor or gobmachine; you get at most 4 different commands to use, a very simplified setup of your usual 30-40 hotbar buttons or whatever it is people roll these days.

Yeah the roleplaying fights are bare bones but Y'shtola and Alphinaud's fights felt way more organic for what they were and had unique points to it ( off the top of my head, Y'shtola's 'sending-esque' dance at the end, Alphinaud's carbuncle ) -- they didn't even try with Hien.

[Tsukino]

He definitely seems more competent than what you can do while playing him in his other portrayals. And while I can agree with people potentially being overwhelmed, I think this might have been a good use case of the autocombo system PvP has. Even if hitting that basic melee attack button would have had the same damage, it would seem less immersion breaking if it at least varied up the visuals.

Oh yeah, they should definitely use the auto-combo thing.

[Allegor]

It felt...underwhelming, tbh. In ARR, we're fugitives and run to the literal one place that would receive us, in HW, we prepare to retake previously conquered land because someone reignited the war and we had a lost world-ending dragon to catch/kill, now in SB...

it kinda just ends. Literally it just ends. 'go to Crystal Tower' *rolls credits*. There's no tension, no proper climax, no connection to ShB or becoming a WoD, nada.
Sure, you could start ShB with tons of exposition cinematics about how or why we're doing what we're about to do, but this cliffhanger ending - unlike the others - didn't really felt like an expansion finale hyping the next one, more like a 'next patch' type of ending

[Silica-chan]

I dunno guys. I think I'm gonna have nightmares from

Varis sos Galvus's face. Like omg please do not zoom up on his face like that ever again!

Same here but it's not like I wanted to sleep anyway though...

[Evraeh]

Same like a lot of people here, I just didn't like at all the ending of Stormblood, could be in the first patch and would be more interesting.

First,

I so wanted to kick ass off Zenos/Elidibus but no, the fate didn't want it or it was just for one moment. Well ok, maybe later.

But after,

to be saved from ZenoEli by Estinien... I was thinking, why Estinien can save us from everything ( aka the time with the cannon on Peaks ). Why can't we just be a real hero at the end.

Then,

Why Varis' face looks so crazy ? I could really like that plot, but why Varis can't just hint us with something ? When we are seeing him in Garlemald, he is never sitting on the throne, just watching it.

To Shadowbringers;

I don't like the end at all, getting up and Aymeric saying we don't need to go back on battle, just rest (in peace). I feel like taking vacancies from everthing in our world. Even accepting to go with the enigmatic figure is "ok we don't know you, but we'll go with you, np".

Real Zenos,

it's the only thing I liked. To see back Zenos who still want to fight with us.

And, yes, the reward is nice at least.

[Crushnight]

Honestly i thought:

The ending should've had us trying to go to the 1st and fail but during the failure we see either Thancred/Y'shtola or Urianger facing a Sin eater it would give us urgency to go to the 1st and with a failure they could use the excuse we need more time to build up power to send you.

What do people think?

[AxHell]

Sorry guys can't post my thoughts because I've been stuck on the credits phase since this morning. Any tips?

[Seraphor]

Short and anticlimactic... didn't feel like an ending in any sense, and seems to be leading into Shadowbringers like sone kind of sidequest.
"The Garlean threat is exactly where you left off, imminent, impending doom, meanwhile lets go to another world and help them out..."