I really DO hope Alexander's story steps up, but I don't think it can top Coil's.

[Phireblast]

This post is chock full of spoilers. Avoid at your own discretion. tl;dr on the bottom

The major contributing factor with Coil is that it tied in with the game's main story pretty well. Let's have a bullet point summary of that along with 1.0/2.0's story. Since i'm an idiot who can't find bullet points with this forum's markup, I'll be using hyphens instead.:

-You defeated the villain of 1.0, but that wasn't really enough to stop the world from ending
-You're forced to watch in shame for a week or two the world end right before your eyes
-Right before Bahamut destroys the servers for a few years, Louisiox pulls a Samurai Jack by tearing open a portal in time, flinging you into the future, where Yoshi-P's evil producing is law.
-You don't know what the hell happened, but you continue adventuring anyway since that's all you can do.
-Things happened such as refighting old enemies such as the primals which all led up to you challenging the Garleans(and winning) again.

Now where Coil comes in.

-Alphonse(i hate spelling his name, so i'm calling him this)'s irrelevant twin sister along with the outdated language Arcanist report to you about a lead with the aftermath of 5 years ago
-Eventually you stumble upon an Allagan structure underground with a letmotif of the main theme playing in all variations of its music, which gives the vibe of a real final dungeon even though it's really hard to pinpoint where Coil's story happened if it were part of the MSQ
-A good amount of the challenges you faced were memorable such as fighting its defense systems, or fighting Meracydian trash on the fucking Right claw of Bahamut, or fighting an empowered version of the final boss from 1.0(kinda)
-You finally reach Bahamut, but there's a twist!
-The last line of defense was a primal, something that you may or may not have expected, and the Primal was Louisiox himself?!
-After you defeat it, the children say their heartfelt goodbyes to their grandfather, and all three entrusts finishing the job to you -You the player while having feels, probably thought deep down the fight was a bit too easy, but there was a reason..
-Because right after the fight, you thrown inside Bahamut for the final showdown
-Not only the main theme plays and intensifies, his attacks actually synced with the music on the final phase
-You win, you saved the world, and you kept this a secret between the siblings since you didn't want to cause a panic making you a hardcore unsung hero.

Okay, so it's not a summary. Now so far with Alexander:

-Suddenly at the end of 3.0's main story, Alexander's appearance is shoved into canon despite it being a raid thing
-It was all the doing of the cheese masterminds!
-Aura mch who does nothing to help you in combat touches her scar reminder her about a lost loved one

I understand this is only the first part of the story, but with how they set things up, could they really make Alexander memorable when it looks like it might turn into a love story with slapstick villains? The entire first wing of the raid didn't have memorable encounters or let alone any that made sense story wise outside of A2. Are the Oppressor and Manipulator just glorified defense mechanisms with no purposes? What the HELL is the Living Liquid?

One thing coil did was further expand on its story a bit more between the turns while indirectly explaining encounters(dalamud spawns, allagan experiments). Correct me if i'm wrong here, but Alexander did poorly of that so far except maybe around the end. I do admit that with Coil being fueled by 1.0's story helped a bit, but as someone who never bothered looking into 1.0's story extensively before finishing coil, I don't think you even need to previously experience it to enjoy it.



tldr: Coil was good because things actually made sense and was memorable. Alexander did not do that, but I hope it does.