The ending to Stormblood...

[Yeol]

Stormblood: 6.8/10

[van_arn]

This was such a letdown and doesn't earn a place next to the ending of ARR or Heavensward. If it sits at that table, it sits there out of formality rather than the quality of its plot.

This did not need to be its own patch.

[AxHell]

When the WoL goes to help Hien & Co as quickly as they can.

[Lozza]

I suspect I might like the MSQ for the patch more than most judging how down on it a lot of people posting on the forums seem. Though I think they could have ended it earlier but then I suppose there would have been a lot of complaints about three months of suspense over what was going to happen to the WoL. I didn't like the reveal of the mysterious voice. Up till now it's just be a voice and then bam, full NPC. I'd have preferred a gradual build, voice, vague glimpses, but they jumped straight in.

And as for the saviour - I didn't have an issue with that though I can understand why perhaps others were bothered by it. (As per suggestions I think and RP section for that could have been very cool. But then people might also have complained about how unrealistic it was for a DRG with 4 skills to do something like that.)

It definitely didn't seem long enough for its own patch but the length didn't bother me that greatly.

[Astrus]

It was okay I guess, I definitely don't see the need for the split across two patches aside from saving the "big reveal" for the Fan Fest and in doing so subverting the whole shocking reveal in game for everyone who got the news at the Fan Fest.
What's annoying me a bit is

the part at the end where the Garleans start manufacturing their chemical weapon again (Dun-Dun-DUN) while it's clear we're heading off to traipse around on the First.
Has me worried we're going to do a two-pronged narrative again where we do our business in the First and then head back to the source as an afterthought because apparently there was a war going on and everyone is getting tired of waiting for us to come back in the nick of time.

If you raise the urgency levels while making it clear that there's not a lot I'll be able to do about it I just stop caring.

[AncientCrystal]

It was absolutely terrible in all aspects. Everything is super vague and the game STILL hasn't explained a lot of the mysteries.

[Crysanna]

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

I think you need to press the scroll lock button on your keyboard - i seem to recall having this at the end of heavensward as i'd hidden my UI - may be wrong but i thought it had crashed and i'd have to do it all again back then.

[Alrin]

Things i did like:
WoL vs Elizenos fight
New mystery guy
Tataru scene (stupid onions)
A lot of screenshot / wallpaper worthy moments

Things i didnt like:
Estinien offscreen fight and rescue of WoL
Zenos alive (Ascian bloodline i guess)
MSQ to short
To many open questions left

[Jandor]

It was ok...

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My three problems with it are, the setup feels off. Alliance vs. Empire is a stalemate at the moment, apparently, although that in itself feels rather forced to me to be honest, but whatever.
The stalemate is presumably why we feel like we can go off searching for the Scions, but whether that works is really going to depend on how the transition to the 1st pans out in ShB. The current holding of the line at Ala Mhigo feels way too fragile for us to just voluntarily take ourselves out of the equation and go an otherworldly adventure.

Frankly, the reason why we decided to disappear in the middle of a war and sail off to the other side of this world was one of my least favourite bits of Stormblood. Deciding now is the perfect time to go off gallivanting on a different world altogether currently feels a bit ridiculous to be honest.

Still, this might be a complaint due to lack of info, a lot depends on how exactly things play out at the start of ShB.

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Secondly, feel like we've left some decent plot threads just dangling with no resolution, especially in Gyr Abania.
Off top of my head I'm left wondering what exactly happened with the Ananta and their constant attempts to temper Ala Mhigans and summon their god?
Also, what happened to Fordola? Where did she go? Evil eastern lady got a full story arc, but evil western lady feels like she was forgotten.

I want endings to this stuff, but I also don't want it dragging on into ShB. Would have been nice to wrap some of the loose ends up before 5.0.

Edit: Actually a lack of resolution to things is an issue with Stormblood overall, it doesn't really feel like Stormblood itself got a true ending.
We started the 4.X series fighting the Empire in Gyr Abania, and we have ended 4.X series with us still fighting the Empire in Gyr Abania.

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Third problem is, I really want to see that Estinien vs. AscianZenos fight.

Azure Dragoon, held onto a dragon eye for ages, had two dragon eyes at one point, got possessed by said dragon eyes, even got turned into a dragon. This guy has got to be absolutely juiced up on funky dragon magic at this point, that fight had major epic cutscene potential and we got to see exactly none of it.

[CarnivalNights]

You know, I've been encouraged by everyone I know who plays to pay attention to the story, so I rewatched every cutscene and asked questions to lore I didn't know and was ready for this final sequence.

I don't think I could've watched a more disappointing and mundane lead up to ShB.