Dawntrail Launch Trailer

[AnimaAnimus]

Problem with xiv's msq the last few expansions is that it turns too anime at random spots, as well as the stagnant cast. For an ongoing game using the same cast is getting old and stale.
Seeing alphinaud and the rest "struggle" in those cutscenes and whatever did nothing to me. Anyone else have this reaction? Like, eh, saturday morning cartoon.

It's not necessarily the cast themselves. It's that SE uses them to explain everything, they tell us where to go, when and why. We don't get to learn anything on our own, from the locals or by seeing it for ourselves. When it comes to the Scions, SE uses them to repeatedly make the cardinal sin of writing by constantly telling us instead of showing us. The Leveilleur and Co. guided tour will squeak all the excitement out of what we could have had.

And the scion plot armor being so thick showing them as being in danger is just boring. We know they are all going to come out the other side in a better place then when we started. Unless they add real stakes by offing a couple of them, those things are never to be believed, something they wouldn't have to do if there wouldn't have been so many fake outs with no consequences. But they have gone so far with it that they need to do something drastic, hance offing a couple scions. So why even include the obligatory, "omg the scions are in trouble" scenes anymore. In fact I bet dollars to donuts that they will not only come out better than when they started, but they will bring everyone together with the power of friendship and maybe instead of electing a leader, they will instead form a council to rule Tural or some other malarkey.