This story is really underwhelming - it's opened to mixed reviews.

[Tethan]

I'm roughly halfway and there's been 0 dynamic between Krile and Alphinaud.

Just finished up to first trial and frankly, there is no dynamic between ANYONE. This is the story of "Wuk Lamat does stuff and everyone else claps".

Why are the twins even here? You could replace them both with cardbord cutouts and nothing would change. I genuinely forget Krile was here, she's had like 5 spoken lines so far. Erenville is just here to point us to next objective. Koana is okay, but once again, everything he does is in service to glorifying Wuk Lamat.

My poor WoL has been completely lobotomized, all he can do is smile and nod and agree with whatever Wuk Lamat wants. Like I know the nodding is a joke but like... I've never felt so out of sync with my own character before?

[Aniise]

Just finished up to first trial and frankly, there is no dynamic between ANYONE. This is the story of "Wuk Lamat does stuff and everyone else claps".

Why are the twins even here? You could replace them both with cardbord cutouts and nothing would change. I genuinely forget Krile was here, she's had like 5 spoken lines so far. Erenville is just here to point us to next objective. Koana is okay, but once again, everything he does is in service to glorifying Wuk Lamat.

My poor WoL has been completely lobotomized, all he can do is smile and nod and agree with whatever Wuk Lamat wants. Like I know the nodding is a joke but like... I've never felt so out of sync with my own character before?

THIS. It's so dumb. Why would they even bother to make the scions join us in Tural when they don't really serve ANY purpose at all? (except being present to please some of their fans I guess..) All they and our WoL are is just this: Decoration. Which is sad, after everything those characters have been through.

The amounts of time I've forgotten that the twins were present, or Krile was present...because it's literally just the Wuk Lamat One Man Show....

[DarkMasamune]

To be honest, I'm really not enjoying this one. I hope it picks up the pace at one point. I'm only at the second dungeon so perhaps I'm judging a bit too quickly here.

But after ShB and EW, it feels strange to just... close a book and start another. Our WoL went throught hell and back, experienced a lot of things, heck, went throught traumatizing stuff, and...
It's like nothing happened.

I don't know how I feel about that.

I'm not thrilled but I guess we'll see.

[Somnolence]

So after 99 trial IMO story gets worse, because it feels villain is being villain just for the purpose of story having one, there is no proper justification for its actions.

Also there is some ass-pull shenanigans going on and ofc. you know which scion comes into play to move plot forward.

At this point I do not feel any engagement with the story or reason to care, just waiting for this to be over so I can get artifacts and unlock extremes.

[Azureskies01]

The game needed to keep or maintain the momentum it had built in Endwalker. While this would be hard to do it is far from impossible.

Giving up momentum is a very bad decision.

They had momentum going from StB to ShB, that is what good storytelling is. EW was high on StBs amazing MSQ and WoW being in the worse state it has ever been in.

If anything I would say DT is falling right in line to what EW was, a disappointment

[SillyCrow]

Just finished up to first trial and frankly, there is no dynamic between ANYONE. This is the story of "Wuk Lamat does stuff and everyone else claps".

Why are the twins even here? You could replace them both with cardbord cutouts and nothing would change. I genuinely forget Krile was here, she's had like 5 spoken lines so far. Erenville is just here to point us to next objective. Koana is okay, but once again, everything he does is in service to glorifying Wuk Lamat.

My poor WoL has been completely lobotomized, all he can do is smile and nod and agree with whatever Wuk Lamat wants. Like I know the nodding is a joke but like... I've never felt so out of sync with my own character before?

I think you hit the nail on the head. I thought something was off and it's really the Scions not having much reaction to anything except Wuk Lamat's antics.

[Loggos]

You mean to say you're not finding Yawntrail an engaging delight. I'm truly shocked surely the holy one Yoshi-P didn't make an cosmic blunder in spending his budget on a mid graphics overhaul instead of engaging story and decent job design/gameplay.

Huh? I'm confused by this reply because the post of mine you are quoting was about a completely different topic (somebody saying people only liked the old story bc of the Ascians).

[Rufalus]

Narrative jumped the shark a while ago. The important stuff in the XIV universe has all been told by this point. System-wise it's brutally outdated linear design, following quest markers point to point for dozens of hours, watching cutscenes and having no real choices.

Just wanted to say bye in case I don't come back this time. I'm here giving my reasons.
(1) outdated formulaic design
(2) costs more than anything else I play with triple-dip licenses, subscriptions and item store
(3) sometimes people harass me for being slow to learn battle mechanics. I'm getting old and won't take people treating me like garbage any more.

Just planning to use my final month to wrap up as many loose ends as I can, then move on. I loved this game when it was new and fresh (V1/ARR/HW). I had big hopes for the future which were not fulfilled. I don't agree with Creative Studio 3's game design philosophy. I made my character in 2012.

[Larom]

Just finished up to first trial and frankly, there is no dynamic between ANYONE. This is the story of "Wuk Lamat does stuff and everyone else claps".

Why are the twins even here? You could replace them both with cardbord cutouts and nothing would change. I genuinely forget Krile was here, she's had like 5 spoken lines so far. Erenville is just here to point us to next objective. Koana is okay, but once again, everything he does is in service to glorifying Wuk Lamat.

My poor WoL has been completely lobotomized, all he can do is smile and nod and agree with whatever Wuk Lamat wants. Like I know the nodding is a joke but like... I've never felt so out of sync with my own character before?

I feel the exact same way dude.

[Wyssahtyn]

i think it's kinda telling for how engaging the story is when i ended up just opening swtor to pvp while in the middle of a cutscene