The Negative Impact of Poor Character Writing on the Quality of Dawntrail's MSQ

[ReynTime]

Yep! There's another one! To be honest, I probably didn't give Otis the respect he deserved. He was actually entertaining. I was just falling asleep when I got to his part of the MSQ. He came across as just another overly likeable characters like Wuk Lamat, Sphene, Cahciua where the writing doesn't know how to give them texture or depth so they just pile on as many positive traits/quirks as possible.

Usually just to kill them off later...

I realized later that was the point, and he was supposed to be the overly chivalrous Steiner character, but at that point it just felt like a rip-off and I was just exhausted from the writing too much to have fun with it.

The way Yoshida advertised Dawntrail as having a lot of connections to IX was almost as overhyped as the Scions being divided. Apart from the motivation of the final antagonist faction all the callbacks to IX are extremely surface level, with the song rips being egregious in how randomly chosen they are, with no connection to their original purpose. So even in the classic FF tie-in Dawntrail falls short, when you look back at how better Final Fantasy 1 through 6, plus 8, were integrated into the game.
I'm sure some overzealous fan has been trying really hard somewhere on r/ffxiv or twitter, to convince everyone that

the last area is "basically memoria" even though by that logic Shadowbringers was doing a callback to Memoria through the ruins of Amaurot

All the Final Fantasy IX names and terms could be replaced by any random made up name and nothing would change.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The way Yoshida advertised Dawntrail as having a lot of connections to IX was almost as overhyped as the Scions being divided. Apart from the motivation of the final antagonist faction all the callbacks to IX are extremely surface level, with the song rips being egregious in how randomly chosen they are, with no connection to their original purpose. So even in the classic FF tie-in Dawntrail falls short, when you look back at how better Final Fantasy 1 through 6, plus 8, were integrated into the game.
I'm sure some overzealous fan has been trying really hard somewhere on r/ffxiv or twitter, to convince everyone that

the last area is "basically memoria" even though by that logic Shadowbringers was doing a callback to Memoria through the ruins of Amaurot

All the Final Fantasy IX names and terms could be replaced by any random made up name and nothing would change.

Yea they really didn't use much of IX, mostly just names and visuals. It's not retelling the story of IX or taking plotlines from it directly. It's at least trying to stand on it's own merits, even if it doesn't really do an amazing job at it...