By far the most boring and disappointing expansion trailer this game has had

[Sotaris]

Eh, I thought the trailer was pretty hype. Looking forward to expansions enter updated trailers in EU and JP fanfests

[CKNovel]

Not the worst but far below HW, ShB and EW.
Even Shadowbringers first trailer was insane and just got more and more insane as it was completed.

We only saw the Scions on vacations and the WoL fighting some lizard king just because.
It also doesn't help that the trailer is heavily disconnected from the ongoing events.

[Renathras]

Well, I'm not a fan of the music. I don't know what that style is called, but "nasaly boy band beech song" is not only one of my least favorite genres of music, for some reason I can't explain, it makes me mildly annoyed/agitated/almost angry. I have no idea why (I don't just mean this, I mean ALL songs like that do), but it just grates on me in a way I find particularly unpleasant. ShB's theme I was iffy on (not a fan of screamo, either), which made EW's theme all the more interesting to me because it had a SB screamo section but for some reason that didn't bother me too much, probably because it was followed up by "On wings up hope, we rise up through the night, HIGH-er, O! High-er~!" and I LOVE that kind of music. It flows like ribbon made from silk and lifts the spirit to soar. And when that beat dropped in the Endsinger fight... /cheff'skiss. I kinda want to go que up for it now just to do that again, ngl. The orchestral version mixed with the WoL theme is just so epic from the final phase of that fight.

That said, the ShB one, while I didn't love it, either, won me over due to that riff starting when "Take it. We fight as one." hits the screen at the climax of the story. It's still not my favorite theme, but it did redeem itself via story events to where I find it enjoyable (it's also good running music; good cadence for my steps and a good build up climax for sprints). So it's...guh...POSSIBLE that this one could somehow win me over, though I see it unlikely since the stakes aren't high enough to generate a scene like ShB/EW, like as not.

...but at present...it annoys the hell out of me other than the segment where the STOP SINGING and just play the music. That's the only part I somewhat like.

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As for the trailer itself - I'm not a big fan of "slice of life". I like bits of it, but there's only so much of that I can take, and if the expansion's story is MOSTLY that, I'm going to find it less than interesting. I've also never cared for "manufactured drama", which is why I hate reality TV and a lot of modern "drama" shows. "Let's insert this unnecessary drama for no good reason to make the show dramatic!". So I'm kind of iffy about this "disagreement" among the Scions.

I can't imagine NOTHING will happen with the story, but I'm not sure I find interfering in the leadership process of another culture with random slice of life moments of eating every new dish we run across us with each new food item having twice the polygons of the last will be something I find overly enjoyable.

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I'm hopeful for the expansion, but I can understand the people not sold on it by the trailer.

[Elissar]

Random person: WE are tired of cosmic menace, we want something more simple
SE: here, go there

Random person: NOOOOOOOOOO

[Fawkes]

You can really tell who wasn't around for the Stormblood teaser trailer, huh?

Wait for the complete thing before you start crying.

Yup. There's a whole other half of it.



Yoshi P five months ago: Krile is gong to have a big part in 7.0

Krile in the teaser trailer:

[Jojoya]

I don't understand the kind of person who sees Urianger kicking back with a tropical drink and isn't immediately satisfied.

That he's becoming an alcoholic?

Which actually could be an interesting side plot that a good chunk of the player base would loathe because they would see it as SE lecturing on real life issues.

Well, I'm not a fan of the music.

That's Soken's extremely rough draft of a work in progress. The final version will be much better (though possibly still not to your taste).

EU FanFest might get a version with finished instrumentals. The final version won't be heard until JP FanFest.

[FairyDJ]

I am glad we can make a decision on how boring something can be based off a 30 second teaser.

[Listrella]

i'll admit it's not up to shadowbringers or endwalkers but then this expansion has a different tone, you couldn't really do a trailer like those. I do think it's a better trailer than the stormblood one though, can't speak to to the heavensward trailer, never saw it.

[Listrella]

This is actually true. The community has been wanting low-stakes slice of life adventure for a long time and it grew even more widespread as of patch 6.1 with Newfound Adventures. Which didn't deliver the way people had hoped it would.

If we follow the plot pyramid, Endwalker was the Climax, Dawntrail is the start of the Falling Action. It's not impossible for there to be a second Rising Action but we have to suffer through the falling action first to get there.

I do believe we're going to be seeing the beginnings of a rising action by the end of this story, as well as this expansion being a fun adventure i believe it's also setting up a larger story.

[FlatLined]

This was a make or break for me...The game has been going in a direction that I don't particularly like and from seeing the teaser trailer its more or less cemented my decision to unsub for good . I'm tired of the same crew and the setting is not my cup of tea. Nothing in that teaser stood out. Stormblood even with all its faults was at least able to peak my interest...This just fell so flat....