Quote Originally Posted by CNitsah View Post
So what are your takes and the MSQ? Try to stay civil please.
Kinda bland and cheap tbh. I'll elaborate the things that kinda turned me off:

- The kid is the smartest person in the room. Terrible trope idk why Japan is like this, maybe my "western" sentiments can't comprehend the "peak content" when a kid is so smart and wise and the adults aren't??? (this happened in the raid questline too when that catgirl kid suddenly had a doctorate in medicine on a disease that we only just learned existed). I can't suspend my disbelief for that it turned me off on the plot point related to those scenes because they felt inauthentic
- While I'm on the subject of the kid, there was no purpose in having him or Wuk Lamat with us in Solution 9 while we wandered around. All they said was really bland "flavor text" and did not contribute to the propulsion of the plot in any way
- We get struck with a big lightning bolt when Calyx and not-Speen tries to kill us, and then we STAND THERE and Wuk Lamat STANDS THERE while they exposition and Speen is all smug at us and shit talks us? We just stand there and do nothing? Goodbye immersion. Don't try to defend this as "you were too weak" because in the scenes immediately after this we walk and move around just fine as if it didn't happen and no one shows any concern that all the power in Sol9 was redirected into our dome
- Calyx is introduced like he's some mighty force and he literally says the same Garlean-human-advancement-evolution shit that we've heard 90 times already from other villains. His motivations were not made clear or believable at all - he just comes off as a bad guy that the plot needed to have because we have to have a villain or the story magically vacuum implodes
- Right before the trial we once again stand around and do nothing while the villains 2 feet away from us take their time to do something evil and terrible. If this didn't happen every expac then FF14 wouldn't have a story ever tbh
- They couldn't just call the trial boss Beatrix could they
- It also messed up the cadence of the story to be like "here's your government mandated dungeon. Oh yeah you're supposed to get a trial too here have that right after lol"
- "Huge event" of literally all the security in Sol9 turning on everyone and the place catching on fire, and then the patch ends and you can just walk around Solution 9 as if nothing happened till 7.3? Like really? The whole place descended into chaos but now it's just ok as we wander around the place for the next patch? Not exactly good for immersing someone in a story. It's like it never even happened

Honestly I'm giving it an "actually mid" 5/10. Gameplay content was fun. Story was better than 7.0 but so are a lot of fanfics on AO3.