The ending to Stormblood...

[Bright-Flower]

Sooo....mixed bag for me.

I didn't hate any of the individual plot points except for the Voice guy being annoyingly vague and unhelpful. You can't spare two minutes to give me the cliffnotes version of what's going on here? Because the pitch you're giving me isn't very convincing.

But there was no big moment. Then again maybe that's for the best. 2.X ended with the Ul'dah situation blowing up. 3.0 quickly reigned the status quo back in and it ultimately just resulted in the scions being put on a bus for a while to focus on HW characters and Alph. 3.X ended with Shinryu's summoning and us risking activating Omega to deal with it. But at the end of 4.0 we just uncerimoniously kill Shinryu as if it were any other primal.

So maybe it's for the best they don't pull out some big shocking thing for 5.0 to deflate like an old balloon. But I do wish we knew more. I want to know how many people will be able to travel between the Source and the First. Will it ultimately be viable to visit the First in RP? Or having a new character born on the First come to the Source? I'll have to wait for 5.0 to see if the lore allows for people to travel or if it'll just be the special WoL who gets to.

The benefit to this is it might allow for 5.0 to start off with a bang. 3.0 and 4.0 kind of started off slowly with us chilling in Ishgard for a while before heading out and then getting a tour of the Fringes with Lyse in 4.0. It took a while for things to get moving. So maybe this will leave room for 5.0 to start off with more of a punch to it.

[Conquistadork]

I do felt the ending was kinda "meh" not bad but not awesome either, but I loved...

That they let you play with some of the characters that have been with you so far, the fight with Hien was simple but fun. It was interesting seeing the point of view of your friends while you are on your way to the fight.

The credits scene with the art of some of the characters was really good, whish they let us use some of them as wallpapers, loved the Gosestu and Yotsuyu art, Yugiri was really good too.

And the free outfit was a nice addition too.

Still, wish they gave us more insight of what's going to happen in SHB.

[Nashred]

There was no ending!
left pretty much everything open..
Shadowbringers is Stormblood part 2

[Floortank]

I dunno guys. I think I'm gonna have nightmares from

Varis sos Galvus's face. Like omg please do not zoom up on his face like that ever again!

I thought it was a tad short. But other than that I am ready for ShB.

Reminded me of Tataru's satanic smile from that one cutscene.

[Floortank]

Yeah it was quite good. I loved the part where

all tension was immediately removed by an off-screen deus ex machina

and that final scene was just

extremely disappointing because there was no kind of build-up or cliffhanger that left you wanting more. It was just a big cop-out that just screamed "PLEASE BUY OUR NEW EXPANSION FOR THE GOOD STORY". So I'm pleased to know that our story will lack any kind of risk or challenge and we'll just hop on over to another shard and do everything we normally do but with a different coat of paint. .

Every once in awhile someone on the forums hits the nail on the head. I want to be excited about Shadowbringers but when I compare the end MSQ of Heavensward to what I just saw, well, there's no comparison.

[Floortank]

I felt like Heavensward got a more satisfying send-off personally, since we were left with a clear goal in mind that we were simply waiting to act on, whereas this time we're just left hanging.

Doesn't help that they spent 50 MSQs setting us up to go to Garlemald and exterminate the Ascian corruption there and then swerved it to the shard storyline that got all of five minutes attention during Heavensward.

[Sassychan]

My theory on the guy in the Ala Mhigan soldier gear:

He's the real Zenos and the Zenos you faced since the beginning of the expansion was fake.

[Kuroka]

My theory on the guy in the Ala Mhigan soldier gear:

He's the real Zenos and the Zenos you faced since the beginning of the expansion was fake.

This cant be as he mentions when we see him for the first time, how he remembers being beaten by us and ending his life, but waking up in this body. Elezenos is the Zenos we killed.

[Fangorn]

The most unpredictable twist were credits after seemingly nothing. My face was like:"whaaaat? thats it?"

[Evogolist]

I agree with everyone else. This patch's MSQ was heavily underwhelming. The MSQ itself, ended on such a lighthearted note, that I don't even feel the need for us to become the Warrior of Darkness. Idk, maybe there's something that's going to take place during the opening of ShadowBringers that's going to explain why, but this definitely wasn't it. The battle again Zenos was okay, but compared to ARR and HW, I would've preferred a trial against that Angel thing from the ShB trailer after we supposedly defeated Ascian-Zenos.