Review of 6.3 Story Content

[Momo_Kozuki]

My takes:


1) The Myth raid continuation is okay. The big revealing seemingly goads players to believe a certain individual on the moon has something to do with The Twelve, which leads to speculations about the The Twelve's true origin. I think NPCs will be revealed to be wrong by the next raid release. In the other hand, I enjoy how the five deities introduced this patch, as they warm up to players significantly after the facade in the first raid. Menphina has her spotlight with character development, which I think cuz she is Oschon's lover, who is suspected to be Deryk, who may play the major part next raid.



2) MSQ feels short this time, mainly cuz there are not much happening in between the dungeon boss and the trial boss. I feel like meeting the twin again should let players explore a bit more about the Garlean instead of just briefing "Ay, we are doing better than before!". Also, when the group is back to Radz-at-hans, instead of just immediately going to fight trial boss, perhaps there should be moments alone between WoL and Zero, so that the later can discuss in-depth about what she has gone through in Garlemald and tell WoL about her past more, instead of just spamming "the fire in my breast". Also, no one knows about what she has gone through, not even WoL, cuz it was her own reminisce, not an echo vision.



Still, despite of Garlemald section being short, I will give a thumb up on including dialogue about players being a Reaper and there are changes in NPC dialogue before the solo duty. I wish to see more this level of details in future contents.

3) The dungeon itself is cool, but only cool if you play Reaper. Otherwise, the second boss' test messages don't echo well to non-Reaper players when it mentions Reaper-related NPC names.


4) I think the post-trial story does justice with the character development of Rubicante. He is known as the charismatic Archfiend of Fire in FF4 who fight fair, and his counterpart in FF14 is well done, despite being very brief. However, the trial is named "Mount Ordeals", which is a mountain that doesn't exist in The Source (it was training place of pre-Rubicante in the Thirteenth pre-Flood of Darkness). The fight with Rubycante happens in The Source, which doesn't have this mountain. This feels like a rare oversight of FF14 story writer.

5) I love Tataru story involving the Four Lords. It is played light-heartedly, not unlike the Four Lord trial story itself, and it ends with a cool glam!



It is not strange to see FF14 have up and down when it comes to story. 6.3 is a "down" moment for me. I enjoy the story of side contents, but MSQ feels rushed.