Quote Originally Posted by Lurina View Post
The fact that they keep returning to this kind of story (right down to the Amaurot-esque imagery of Living Memory and the final dungeon where you run through the memories of a dying civilization...) while seemingly having nothing new to say is just dire.
It really feels like they're trying to recapture what Shadowbringers did well, but every time they try again they do it weirdly, and it just retrospectively dilutes the potency of the one time they did it well.

Honestly, it's kind of what I was dreading we'd get ever since the early broad-strokes promotion of "a story about values" and "difficult choices". Obviously the details were unpredictable, but coming out of Endwalker where "both side have a point" boils down to "both sides have reasons for you to dislike them but the story requires you to side with one now that we've made you uncomfortable about it" which they seem to intend as profound and high-concept but just feels unenjoyable.

There's a balance to be found, no doubt, but at this point I really hope they can find some other type of storyline for 8.0 and not make it be all about life and death and remembrance again.