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I'm not gonna lie, I was bored for much of this patch. The dungeon was kind of fun and I always like to see Matoya. It's especially fun to see the back and forth between her and Y'shtola. Alphinaud spilling the beans about how she used Matoya's name on the First was hilarious. We rarely see Y'shtola flustered, but Master Matoya is the only one who can do that to her.

The highlight for me was seeing Ga Bu cured. That was a touching moment. Though in the Navel, it was super weird that the kid's parents were still lying there dead. After all this time? Za Da didn't just kick them into the lava or something? I know it was for dramatic impact when Za Da was cured to see what he had done, but I thought that was really odd.

And speaking of tempering. Curing this HUGE THING that's been plaguing the star from the start of the game so quickly seemed rushed and sudden. I understand the name of this update is Futures Rewritten, and all the major players here are rewriting a new future for Eorzea, but curing tempering so quickly - and with magic pigs - seemed out of left field. But that seemed to be a re-occurring theme here.

Back in ARR, the Lominsans were shown as being the main instigators of the troubles with all the beast tribes in the region. Y'shtola and Merlwyb had a few private chats about that. It was nice to see the admiral take ownership of the wrongs her people had committed, but again, this was so sudden. The last time we saw two races trying to reconcile past sins, it took an entire expansion to resolve. (Heavensward). Which again, was yet another theme. Heavensward. It was all over this patch. Yoshida did say we should brush up on our Heavensward content, and he wasn't kidding. More to come on that, no doubt. Then there was the whole reconciliation with the pirates. Again, that seemed so sudden and was just kind of like "Oh, since we're here we may as well go do this thing.".

And speaking of ARR, we're back to fighting primals again. There was a moment I fully expected Urianger to summon me to the Waking Sands to take down Garuda, Titan, and Ifrit. Fortunately that didn't happen. Because I felt like after all we've dealt with, from the Dragonsong War up till now, fighting primals again seemed so anti-climactic. Though to be sure, Elidibus was a primal and that's what we've essentially been dealing with in Eden. And at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if WE are a primal.

And about us, I feel like my character spent this entire patch doing exactly what I was doing in real life. Just watching. Aside from the dungeon and some fetch quests, we honestly didn't need to be there, and we didn't really do anything. Whether we were there or not, the story would have unfolded exactly the way it did. We had a small part when we gave Alisae some of our aether, but other than that, we really didn't have a purpose here. The main stars here were Alisae, Graha, and Merlwyb. We were just there.
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