Revelations from Patch 4.56

[Iscah]

I think it's a pity they haven't made the Rising Stones infirmary an actual set piece, at least for cutscenes. Twice now we've had other characters go in to check on the sleeping Scions, while we have to stay outside.

It's one thing to talk about them all lying there comatose, but it would be quite potent to actually see them like that.

It would also make that "waking up after the battle" cutscene a lot stronger. Instead of the bewildered "why am I in Ishgard?" feeling, you wake up and realise you're in the infirmary and can see all the other Scions around you. You were taken, and now you are the only one to have returned.

Which would, I suppose, be a good way to get around the one body at a time structure - that Emet-Selch might in fact be two Ascians.

Much to ponder.

That would be a very interesting way around Solus's slightly-too-fast reincarnation after Varis shot him....

(not spoiler-tagging this because we've wandered off "patch 4.56" spoilers and into loosely-related conjecture.)

[Naria]

I think it's a pity they haven't made the Rising Stones infirmary an actual set piece, at least for cutscenes. Twice now we've had other characters go in to check on the sleeping Scions, while we have to stay outside.

It's one thing to talk about them all lying there comatose, but it would be quite potent to actually see them like that.

It would also make that "waking up after the battle" cutscene a lot stronger. Instead of the bewildered "why am I in Ishgard?" feeling, you wake up and realise you're in the infirmary and can see all the other Scions around you. You were taken, and now you are the only one to have returned.

This is something new outside the box.

THB my first thought in that scene was: "I guess this is the only infirmary model they have . . . wait, doesn't Rhalgar's Reach have an infirmary model?" It seems like it would make sense to wake up there as it is closer to the battlefield than Ishgard and if we had been unconscious long enough to be moved to long term care then why aren't we at the Rising Stones? Did Estinien take us all the way to Ishgard for medical treatment? Wouldn't we have to pass Mor Dhona to get to Ishgard anyways? I guess they stuck us on an airship. How long were we out? something something time bubble.

Maybe it is suppose to be a thematic call back to 4.3? That might have worked better if we had seen Estinien fight Elidizenos.

I mean yay more Aymeric and House Fortemps but taking everything else into account in retrospect it does seem like they were a bit rushed when trying to finish up the story patch. That combined with some of the interviews coming out of the JP Fanfest has me trying to temper my expectations for Shadowbrings.

@Kalise

I'm assuming with what Banri Oda said about Estinen absorbing so much of Nidhogg's aether has made him ridiculously powerful is why he been a get-out-of-the-plot-free coupon in SB. On the other hand he did not seem that overpowered in the SB DRG questline. I do hope he gets some more character development, hopefully as part of the-lets-get-the-band-back-together and restore Ishgard in 5.0.