What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[EagleDynamics]

came here to say that EW was a pretty disappointing story. the final villain was a little girl who was a failed science experiment? i feel like square enix couldve done a lot more with this. at first i thought it was an alien race who attacked the ancients because i thought meteion was being controlled by something else. but nope. just a really sad really powerful child. lame imo.

[Katori96]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...gree_with_the/

Thank you for the link. Honestly I had a hard time understanding what I was not exactly understanding about endwalker n why it was "lackluster" or "controversial" n this did shed some light on it.

[TheGrimace]

Bozja story and gameplay is great, though Delubrum Reginae needs to be adjusted to make it easier for casuals to queue into. Endwalker story is good.

[Caurcas]

The Ivalice narrative in XIV was better than the main line narrative in XIX outside the Misijia parts. Certainly better than EW.

[aveyond-dreams]

Return to Ivalice is still probably the best of the Alliance Raid stories, but it appears that both its fight design and its story content were underappreciated by many.

[Skyborne]

Return to Ivalice is still probably the best of the Alliance Raid stories, but it appears that both its fight design and its story content were underappreciated by many.

Yes.

The only thing that killed it for me was our lad Ramza being hit by a lobotomy beam to change his personality. Guess no one is allowed to be spicy or mildly dickish...

[Brill_]

My biggest issue with Endwalker is it didn't feel dire. We're supposedly in the final days and we're sitting around sipping tea with our comrads before running off to the final zone. I would liked to have seen something that gives you more of feeling like the end of 1.0 had just before the servers went down. I enjoyed the story, but the reason I just mentioned is what keeps it from beating Shadowbringers.

[Lucida3b]

My biggest issue with Endwalker is it didn't feel dire. We're supposedly in the final days and we're sitting around sipping tea with our comrads before running off to the final zone. I would liked to have seen something that gives you more of feeling like the end of 1.0 had just before the servers went down. I enjoyed the story, but the reason I just mentioned is what keeps it from beating Shadowbringers.

Yeah this is a big issue for me, the pacing as well is messed up which also drags it down. Even barring all the issues people have with elpis and such

Plus the moon zone being a bloody afterthought is a big stand out to me

[AmpelioB]

Plus the moon zone being a bloody afterthought is a big stand out to me

wait, what makes you think that as an afterthought?

[kpxmanifesto]

Plus the moon zone being a bloody afterthought is a big stand out to me

Yeah, you'd think the moon would have a played a bigger role from how it was advertised in the trailer and how its a part of the game's logo. But no, after we kill Zodiark (who played a much smaller role than I had originally thought) we never really see the moon again.