Review of 6.3 Story Content

[aveyond-dreams]

I 100% prefer everything in shadowbringers but I don't think they can always write something as good as that (I know some people will like another FF14 Story expansion story better), I felt a bit underwhelmed by Endwalker, that being said I still somewhat enjoyed Endwalker in general it had really high moments.

With the 6.1-6.3 I've actually been liking it more then the main Endwalker plot (6.0) generally, I feel like it's actually going into a Interesting direction, I personally don't see how it's "going down hill" but others might? I mean we've had A realm reborn and Stormblood which can be considered writing "low points", while I actually think Sormblood was decent people will have differing opinions on what they like, I know a lot of my friends who I've played the game with and talked about the game actually like the recent story.

I'll definitely take Golbez the FFXIV version of the Jailer over Meteion and Hermes any day, at least. No previous expansion story to date has tried and failed to get the point across the way Endwalker did with its botched attempt at philosophical messaging and retroactively damaging the game's foundational lore.

At any rate - I do not believe there is a single EW enjoyer who would really lose out if 7.0 sees us return to the style of Heavensward with a fresh cast that has flaws/growth and yes even death so as to tell a mature enough story without the need for excessive padding with slice of life nonsense and fluff. The Scions had 10 years to make the case for themselves sticking around and although Shb started to make them somewhat tolerable, an entire expansion in EW of stagnant or in some case backwards growth just shows me that they really cannot be salvaged.

Better to have the Ysayles of the game die before they live long enough to become Y'shtolas.