Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Kolsykol]

I never allowed any irritation with the need to return to Vesper Bay to blossom into a hatred of Minfilia Warde, and I never wanted her to leave, even after Shadowbringers made the desire for her return into a moral enormity.

Hating Minfillia because she was the quest NPC is just really bizarre and petty.
She wasn't a bad character at all.

I also don't buy into this bs about how she was '' useless '', just because she wasn't a fighter doesn't mean she was useless and ofc she'd be the target for kidnapping as essentially the leader...
It's true I think to some extent that we didn't see her do much on screen, but if you paid attention to the story it was clear that she did do stuff.
Getting mad at her for making you '' do stuff '' instead is just dumb too, ofc she did rofl?
You're the fighter out in the field and she's not why the hell would she put herself at risk?

It's like getting mad at a general for sending soldiers out to do stuff or not going scouting themselves.
It makes no sense.

[Raoabolic]

I never allowed any irritation with the need to return to Vesper Bay to blossom into a hatred of Minfilia Warde, and I never wanted her to leave, even after Shadowbringers made the desire for her return into a moral enormity.

Same. Meanwhile people go crazy over Zenos (evil goku) and yshtola (haha little sun! now brb coming back from the dead again!). At least Minfilia got a proper end and farewell (ShB and that one dungeon in EW), Zenos was just a tool to send the player to Garlamand and yshtola has become nothing but a mascot for XIV. Feels real good to be a minfilia fan imo.

[Caurcas]

Magnai is a better character than Y'shtola.

[Firlont]

Another hot take I have is that while I loved the stories of Endwalker and Shadowbringers, constantly being told to move on makes me miss the thematics of Stormblood. There's a point where acceptance starts to taste like surrender, and if we had chosen in that instance to meekly accept that the past was past we'd never have freed Doma or Ala Mhigo from the Empire.

[SeverianLyonesse]

Hating Minfillia because she was the quest NPC is just really bizarre and petty.
She wasn't a bad character at all.

Eh she was kind of a damsel in distress, got a disproportionate amount of screentime to her actual impact on the story, and generally lacked for character traits. I think her character rested too much on being well-intentioned and pretty, and it does read like the writers expected her to just skate by on being your in-game girlfriend.

I don't really hate Minfilia so much as the fact that she was poorly handled. I am disappointed in how she was written, when if we *had* to have that archetype in FFXIV she could have been given more agency and personality. Leaving the plot like she did was probably the best thing that could have happened to her.

[Seiori]

I find it funny that lore wise Amdapor White Mages sound awesome but we get the Job crystal memories of a person who was just given a trial pamphlet of the incantations and dropped out early on.

[Kolsykol]

Eh she was kind of a damsel in distress, got a disproportionate amount of screentime to her actual impact on the story, and generally lacked for character traits. I think her character rested too much on being well-intentioned and pretty, and it does read like the writers expected her to just skate by on being your in-game girlfriend.

I don't really hate Minfilia so much as the fact that she was poorly handled. I am disappointed in how she was written, when if we *had* to have that archetype in FFXIV she could have been given more agency and personality. Leaving the plot like she did was probably the best thing that could have happened to her.

Ofc when she's essentially the quest giver she'll get a lot of screentime.
Being a damsel in distress doesn't make you inherently a bad character either, and like I said it makes sense why she'd be put in that position.
The whole waifu thing really applies significantly more to Y'shtola and tbh she's less of a character than Minfillia at this point.

In regards to the damsel part I would've found it even dumber if she suddenly became some badass and got out herself.
It made perfect sense why she'd become a target and the first time she also wasn't the only one who was captured.
But much like Y'shtola and the whole '' fake death '' thing people have a tendency to ignore the other characters in the scene or who the same thing happens to.

[Tilandros]

Endwalker may have had a good to great story and finality to it but the sheer lack of non-instance end game content at launch (WHERE IS MY DAMN ISLAND SANCTUARY) has soured me on the game completely.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Some people need to learn the difference between tackling an argument and tackling the arguer.

No, I'm not aiming this at any one person or thread in particular, just a general observation.

[Izar_Chillen]

Magnai is a better character than Y'shtola.

The resident of the Steppes are more interesting



We got 10 more years of Cataracts Shtola - I foresee a few quest in later expansion which we have to take Shtola to Specsavers (a UK Glasses Shop franchise)


Its a shame that Shtola has become so vague , her English VA Robyn Addison is a great actor , and has great range , if anyone played Dragon Age Inquisition and loved Sera the crazy Elf you will know what I mean , yet she is slowly becoming explanation'Shtola at key moments and not much else. I hope they can write a better character over the next few years.

Please Shtola find a way to get back to Runar its the only thing you ever seemed to really care about