What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[KizuyaKatogami]

Yeah, most of the "memorable" stuff from SB seems to only be things which are meme-worthy, such as Scholars catching Susanoo's huge sword with their books, Lakshmi's "bosom", and Gosetsu having a whole death monologue and conversation while he struggles to hold up a collapsing building. Even when I was going through every dungeon in the game while leveling all my classes to 80, I could recount exactly why the WOL had to fight in places like the Aery, the AC Research Center, Holminster Switch, Qitana Ravel and Mt. Gulg...but I was scratching my head trying to remember what the purpose of fighting in the Sirensong Sea or Castrum Abania was.

To its credit, I don't think Endwalker is going to have that problem. For all the faults I have with its story, every dungeon was pretty memorable. The Tower of Zot is probably the least of them, but I don't think it'll be possible to forget why you're there.

Personally i found the doma flooding memorable, the steppes battle when the imperials come and both sides of the steppes work together to fend them off, Yotsuyu in the leading patches and her story and especially her trial. I’d take all of that over the latter points of EW, although yeah they definitely stepped the game up when it comes to dungeons. The only one i really don’t care too much for is zot, which is a shame because i’ve always looked forward to the magus sisters in game. Speaking of which, why did they hype them up so much? Yoshi P and the website stated that this would be the most intense form they’ve ever taken yet but….it’s literally their ff4 iterations.

[CrownySuccubus]

Yotsuyu in the leading patches and her story and especially her trial.

Yeah, I deliberately didn't include any post-SB content, because people almost generally acknowledge it (at least Yotsuyu's story) as good.

Ghimlyt Dark is still pretty "meh" to me, though. Having had to run it so much for leveling characters past 70, it's basically just another generic battlefield against Garlemald like we've fought in dozens times. Hell, the main SB questline had three Garlemald dungeons.

Pretty fitting/hilarious in hindsight, since SB would be the finale of the Empire as an antagonist.