Quote Originally Posted by Midare View Post
I think they were trying to achieve the same effect as the moment when everyone in Norvrandt comes together thanks to us to get the Talos going to grab onto Mt. Gulg but boy, did they miss the mark.
The entire expansion is just Member Berries in narrative form.

'Member the treacherous boat ride before getting to the new zone in Stormblood?
'Member the 'two half' story structure of Doma and Ala Mhigo?
'Member travelling with a wet-eared would-be leader of a nation as she learns what it means to take charge?
'Member racism from and between the beast tribes?
'Member Azem's crystal that was supposed to be non-functioning three uses ago?
'Member when Erenville having an Icelandic accent made sense until they gave him a backstory where he would talk like an American?
'Member the trolley? I loved the trolley.
'Member when everyone got together to make the golem?
'Member the callback moment in EW where older characters got their moment in the Ilsabard Contingent? Let's do that again with Vrtra because he's the only one who can fly.
'Member how mysterious Estinien is?
'Member how G'raha got the Crystal Tower to the First and how similar that is to Heritage Found?
'Member when he wasn't reduced to a dude that REALLY loves food and was actually a very intelligent and inward-feeling person?
'Member Princess Garnet and Steiner?
'Member FF9 locations? 'Meeeeeeember?
'Member 'I Want To Be Your Canary'?
'Member the Twelveswood tree monsters?
'Member the entire moral dilemma Emet-Selch already offered in a much better way?
'Member how much you love adventure?
'Member the Dawntrail trailer where we had cool vignettes that were just crammed into the final credits?

Yeah, sorry Hiroi, but you'll get no applause from me for banking so hard on better stories that came before to score cheap nostalgia-based emotion that are clearly plugging in the vacuum of your own lack of competency.

As I've said before, Wuk Lamat is a glaring symptom of a much deeper issue. Much better FF stories are being pillaged to make up for the lack of substance the original work possesses and I find that kind of depressing.