Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Yeah this totally makes sense. Could you imagine if we could save racism with a couple WWE matches?

If only we had given Garlemald some ice-aspected seeds, all of StB would have been unnecessary. I don't know about you, but I certainly feel silly for missing that obvious solution.

The problem with Gulool Ja is that he doesn't really seem to fill an actual purpose for Alexandria, like Zoraal didn't seem to have any role outside of violence and he can't replace Sphene so he seems odd as a king as there's not need for Alexandria to have a monarchy at this ponit it has a funcational civil service that does all the day to day work anyway

The WoL stabbing a bunch of civil servants in the face would have looked tacky. We needed an evil king and poorly programmed queen for the second and third trial. Beating Bob Euphoria from the Dept of Finance to death would have made for a very questionable battle.

[Nyxs]

With all the "family friendly" treatment in this exoansion, iam surprised we didnt get singing cutscene

I can imagine wuk lamat singing let it go or a whole new world in tuliyollal from her balcony "castle" lol

I didnt even think about this….the castle had a disney balcony with that awful song playing.

Reading through all the comments you can just see all the bad writing and plotholes in DT. So we have a bad character,bad va and horrible writing. I am praying they get told the feedback here and not twitter feedback. This needs a fix before the next msq patch. Please dont make us suffer.

-Alexandria needs a actual leader. Not a kid
- No more Wuk Lamat, or way less
- Make the people less dumb. They should know about their own cultures.

[AnimaAnimus]

- Hiroi comments on what he’d like to focus on as the lead story writer moving forward.

If SE even allows him to maintain his role as lead writer from here on out, after the reception this expac's story has gotten from all regions, it will just prove how inept the ppl making those decisions are and would explain a lot of SE's recent failings.

[Healing-the-things]

This writing is so bad I don't even care to finish pushing the MSQ further and I'm legit going to just wait for the 'tales of adventure' option to come out so I can buy my way out of this garbage story. I'm starting to think that was their intention all along... to get more people to buy-a-nope and get away from this less than mediore storyline.

[gumas]

This writing is so bad I don't even care to finish pushing the MSQ further and I'm legit going to just wait for the 'tales of adventure' option to come out so I can buy my way out of this garbage story. I'm starting to think that was their intention all along... to get more people to buy-a-nope and get away from this less than mediore storyline.

they better be, because this was xpansion is for me probably the worst ever, this is the first time i just speed reading everything because i just want to get over with

Wuk lamat really need to stay in her castle like 80% of the time

[Plumerian_Ariadust]

I suspect/hope Wuk Lamat is going to get kicked in the teeth over it in the patch content. She's naïve enough coming into co-ruling her own country, and then just decided to add an entire second one to her plate because "family!". Like...yes, Gulool Ja is her nephew, he's the rightful king, he's way too young for it, and Alexandria can't exactly go from monarchy to nothing in five minutes, so it tracks as far as necessity goes, but Wuk Lamat isn't even remotely canny enough to navigate that political situation. I hope they do something interesting with it, in any case. They dangled a ton of plot hooks all over the place to pick up on, and that's one of them.

Highly doubt it if it's still the same writing team that did the MSQ.

If SE even allows him to maintain his role as lead writer from here on out, after the reception this expac's story has gotten from all regions, it will just prove how inept the ppl making those decisions are and would explain a lot of SE's recent failings.

This is SE we're talking here. they do bad decisions most of the time. From having console exclusive releases and investing into shitty NFTs.

[gumas]

The only thing i can praise in this expansion is just the OST, the music is good as usual

The rest…. Ugh

[AnimaAnimus]

The only thing i can praise in this expansion is just the OST, the music is good as usual

The rest…. Ugh

I can disprove this statement with only one word. Smile

[Vensaval]

I can disprove this statement with only one word. Smile

To be fair, that's practically the one exception.

It sticks out like a grotesquely sore thumb, but still.

[Zaniel]

This has been a huuuuge issue of mine as well and I can't believe it got past sensitivity consultants. When I got to the reeds part I knew I was in for a rough ride. Why on earth would the Hanu forget their own culture, and why would Wuk Lamat know how to solve it in 10 minutes? I also found the entire Mamook section so hilariously out of touch - the writers earnestly selling the idea that these people would need to be told by outsiders, "Have you tried planting seeds about it instead of doing a eugenics project that kills 99% of your offspring?"

For an expansion that was supposed to be crafted and vetted for cultural sensitivity it's an almost hilariously continuous roll of white saviour + stupid natives + Shah of Iran / CIA operations. I also notice that the underlying motif of "cultural understanding" is food, which is such an oblivious western approach to cultural appreciation "oh those funny brown people, they make a mean curry/taco". In the past of FF14 it would have been something weighty like religion or government or a system of oppression etc etc but food is "Disney-safe".