Regarding Anima (Endwalker Spoilers)

[TheSweetestTart]

Please read at your own risk, you have been warned!

I feel terribly whining about this, given how hard the dev team works, but I did want to make my thoughts on this known.

I am very upset and disappointed with the treatment of Anima in the Endwalker MSQ. FFX was my very first FF game and to this day, it's the dearest to my heart. Since I started playing in the 2.0 beta of FFXIV, I've been eagerly hoping and awaiting the day that they finally added Anima as a trial fight. It's been my number 1 most anticipated thing, as I feel like she is truly THE representative summon of FFX, being that she has the most story relevance to the main plot and she's incredibly cool looking with great backstory.

Imagine my despair to find that she is, in fact, the incredibly underwhelming boss of an early expansion dungeon. No unique music or anything-- I've been dying for Soken to take a crack at some FFX tracks for ages now. Nothing was kept of the tragedy of her existence-- it really feels like they only popped her into place over the "Varis" Tower of Babil fight because she has a frightening appearance. They could've replaced her with any old monster and it would've functioned just as well for the narrative.

Now, I'm heartbroken-- I feel like she's been wasted for FFXIV now, never to see a cool trial or anything more exciting. She was just a footnote in the story. Yojimbo was given a similarly underwhelming treatment in my opinion. I wish that the development team would pay a little more love and affection to the games from later on in the series-- I understand that because of the average age of the dev team, they have the most nostalgia for the earlier games and therefore pay them a lot more love, but it really sucks to be a younger fan and to have no connection to those games.

I would really like to see FFX and FF9, along with FFXIII get the same loving treatment that the other games have received in FFXIV. I mean, we had the entirety of the Omega raids more or less dedicated to individual bosses from FFV and FFVI-- meanwhile Anima gets to be a single dungeon boss. It's very disappointing, and I guess I hope that some other fans of the later games feel the same way.

[Rinoslim]

Feel exactly the same.
They tease for "New threats to overcome, including Anima and the Magus Sisters" just 4 fight down on 3 min each.
We actually lost 2 Epic fight,who could have been the best fights in the game at endwalker, for uninteresting trial .....
Like you say they did the exact same with Yojimbo ...
I have no more motives for this game... i feel scam
Yoshida must remember if he succeeded raise this game it's only beacause he add and best summon of ff licence on trial , not with invocations out of his imaginations that have no charisma. (like hydaelyn)
I'm heartbroken too

(sry for the bad English)
Rino

[ryouma17]

i havent gotten this far yet, does anima atleast still nuleash her flurry of punches via oblivion? was the best summon attack in FF10

[ryouma17]

guess i'll find out when i get there

[Rinoslim]

Anima have this attack on ff14 but she is bad, truly we can defeat this boss with a feet,blind without mouse.
We can maybe call this boss #Scamnima ?

[aveyond-dreams]

To be fair after seeing everything I'm glad that all Trials went to original FFXIV characters as opposed to bosses lifted from other games. I would have loved to see an Anima trial as well but not at the cost of any of the 3 we did receive.

[Sacae]

Yojimbo has a ton of stuff, not sure what the complaint there is.

[Aeliott]

If it was a choice between Anima and Sisters being trials vs the ones we did get, then I'd choose the ones we did get without flinching. That said...it would've been cool to have full trials with them, I get it. Anima especially just seems like such a prime candidate for it. It's a shame we couldn't have just had an extra trial.

As for the lore behind her/him now, well...it doesn't take away from X for me; I don't have any strong opinions about it. Different games, different incarnations; much like Bahamut has very different roles across the series sometimes. It's sort of cool in a way that he's essentially the "Garlean primal".

[Mimilu]

For me, I feel like they delegated Primals to dungeons because, other then a select few, Primals are pretty much not a threat to us and our allies (we can cure and prevent tempering, so now anyone strong enough can take care of them).

[Roda]

Big spoilsies for the first trial:

I, for one, appreciate the HIGHI amount of bamboozle when it comes to these bosses. Though I expect for them to become real trials later on in endgame.