Quote Originally Posted by Basteala View Post
I'm going to agree with this as well. The Devs have no reason to make an article about how DT's had (comparatively) poor reception. They would be better served simply trying to course correct for the future, not unlike what they did--ironically--with ARR.

I'm still mystified as to what happened, though. The writer did the Bard and Black Mage role quests and those are both really friggin solid. I want to hold onto some optimism that the guy can fix things up in post--not even as a "Dawntrail Defender", but as a Black Mage main who holds this guy to better than that.

The rest *is* good, and hell, there were parts of the MSQ that I thought were alright, too. Someone else mentioned that the characters in MSQ felt kind of wooden and I agree with that. and Wuk Lamat (which the character concept is fine) is like a black hole with how much she makes other people and reality bend around her. Dialing that down would go a long way.
Garfield will hopefully fade into the background like Lyse(she had 22% of all voiced dialogue and talking to her was the quest objective 147 fucking times), but I'm less optimistic about them fixing the issues with English VA direction. Yoshida said they went with a different recording studio for DT, which likely means a different director, and the VAs said that they weren't even told what scenes they were recording for.