Revelations from Dawntrail (7.0)

[Rannie]

So i finished the msq a few days ago I've been half disgusted of it to even finish up my thoughts on it. However I decided to go ahead and try to. And if people agree with me they agree if they disagree they disagree.

so i stopped off basically with the first half of it. Which was some of the most boring parts of the game mostly and that is by much either. I still stand by the fact that Wuk Lamat is this worst character I have ever come across in any game, book, or movie that I've laid my eyes upon and took in. People like to tout that she had character growth during the game, however, there was little if any... absolutely none in my estimation. She's an over powered unlikeable Mary Sue/Blackhole Sue and quite honestly looks she's someone's OC character that was put into the game. Her English voice actress from from the previous patches caused me to play it in Japanese which while she was better that doesn't even save the character. Her comedy also fell flat and looked like it tried to emulate Sailor Moon... No Tsukino Usagi had better silly slap stick comedy than what the character Wuk Lamat has. Also she was better written than that cat person.

The whole portion with us going to the wild west version of the world was while better than the beginning of the game still had the plot jacked by something that involved Wuk Lamat and killed any enjoyment that I would have had with it. That's also not mentioning the whole it's the "lawless" wild west but using rubber bullets. I mean even Mch uses an aetherically created bullets for their guns. All in all even though i was running around with Erenville, the enjoyment just wasn't there.

the last areas and last parts of the game... I don't even know where to begin. They took, SHB, Endwalker, as well as pieces of the Matrix and decided to smush it all together in a rewrite... it was horrible. Honestly this is the portion where I'm sitting here holding my head in my hands saying what the.... the whole time. I mean using souls as batteries and putting the memories in a VR system to they can "live on". It kills me to see people constantly go on about the Endless and our characters turning off the computers but not one person is saying a peep about the whole they're using souls as fricken batteries!!!! Like seriously if souls with the memories were going to be going to the aetherial sea when they died the MEMORIES are going to be erased to begin with. What exactly is happening with the actual Soul portion that they're using to raise themselves. are they destroying the souls or what?!?

Then there was what looked like the ass pull of them just so happening to create a treaty between Radz at Han and Tural? All because of Alphinaud and Estinien...

I'm not going to even get started on that "azem" Key Mcguffin... no... just no...

I just really don't know what the writers where thinking when they wrote this....

I've been playing this game since 1.0 Closed Beta... and having to repeatedly start in Limsa in beta didn't even make me hate this game this much. I get that a story can start out slow. Even then a story can be slow but still have hooks in it. This one had absolutely none and quite frankly I'm really starting to wonder if i should even keep my sub.


One more Edit:

I forgot to mention... Krile got shafted HARD in this expansion especially after they said that she would be more of a focus on it. Like i said in another thread... Damn near ever time she dared to asked about her grandfather she was rebuffed with a "we can't talk about it" .... like seriously i'd rather be drip fed and had little parts of the story told as we went along... no we get an echo scene that was narrated and not even a true echo with what happened. The show don't tell is completely lacking in this story.