Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Fawkes]

I love Prishe.

[GrizzlyTank]

The music while an obvious homage to original XI, felt a bit flat for the fights.

The fights themselves were fine.

Cutscenes still should have had voice acting.

Neat to see the most interesting villain in the expansion survive, for now.

[Fawkes]

Cutscenes still should have had voice acting.

I'm glad they didn't, I don't like the english voice for Prishe in the raid. It wouldn't have fit any of the post-raid cutscenes with her at all.

[Mecia]

Alright lets start this early, Prishes hair when?

[Fawkes]

Alright lets start this early, Prishes hair when?

Probably with her outfit on the mogstation in 3 years. :X

[Powercow]

Plus some of these areas such as Sky in full HD looks incredible. The flavor text in both Jeuno (Mea... 1K... Can i have) and also the journal in Sky of taking the wrong teleporter are good.

There's a hidden note behind the first set of stairs in Sky too.

Overall, I grinned like a big dork the whole raid. But I do want to know for the people who haven't played FFXI -- did the multitude of references trigger that "I know that's a reference to something, but I don't know what it is." part of your brain or was it fine enough as-is? To me it felt fanservicey, but I'm the fan being serviced so I'm happy with it.

My personal favorite being

a group of adventurers showing up just like 2 seconds too late to claim Aquarius. Get rekt nerds try again another time!

Also the fights are cool, though I wonder how well they'll hold up after a couple weeks. Certainly a step up from the Twelve raid series though.

[Andevom]

I loved the brief moment in the Aery where there was no background music, only the battle theme - really reminded me how quiet many areas in FFXI were.

[DynnDiablos]

The difficulty has definitely been ramped up. I have now had the worst luck with two different alliance groups abandoning at the final fight with 10 minutes left. Three hours wasted now.

[EchoingPulse]

The difficulty has definitely been ramped up. I have now had the worst luck with two different alliance groups abandoning at the final fight with 10 minutes left. Three hours wasted now.

Damn, that sucks. My first group wiped on every boss but kept going, even throwing up call signs. It was amazing. We completed it.

[Fawkes]

A "Royal Damask" material can drop from the raid for crafting a Royal Bed.