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

[aveyond-dreams]

As much as I dislike Y'shtola I am grateful that in 6.2 she is back to being a healer rather than calling upon the likes of Alphinaud, whose next appearance I'm terrified of. Can't say I'm looking forward to any involvement of Urianger in the plot again, I'm quite tired of hearing about him and Moenbryda. The sooner we leave the remnants of the scions behind, the better. I have nothing more to say on Thancred other than to agree with what others have stated previously.

I'd be more than willing to accept a series of simpler, self-contained expansion plots with character arcs matching that length and a cast that is regularly swapped out rather than 10 years of the same characters again. Characters shouldn't stick around so long taking up the spotlight for so long that even their own fans get bored of them or in some cases turned off by them completely.



Looking at the trailer again, I still really like the appearance of both Troia Castle and the ruined city that was also shown. The broken statue of the knight performing Passage of Arms was a nice touch, and helps feed more into the dark fantasy of the Void. If only we could've had a whole expansion set in a beautiful, gothic kingdom of darkness but in that same trailer we see dawn tainting its skies.

Fundamentally, I want and seek out fantasy, and found myself quite at home in back in the days of Ishgard, along with Il Mheg and Lakeland. I have no desire to rob this world of its Void after having only recently slain both of its major deities, though if the trade off for that would be a new kingdom to explore then that would be something of a silver lining.

Maybe they'll have us time travel again. Maybe somehow we end up restoring the Void and restoring humanity to it by the end of 6.5. If it gets us to a better setting full of more magic than the Source, so be it. As far as I'm concerned anything is better than staying there, with my favourite locations stripped of what made them unique and my favourite characters unable to join the party. Let us leave behind this world without gods, with more republics than monarchies, and without any current threats for something better.

I'd certainly prefer the 13th, restored or no, to a New World or Meracydia directly based off their real world counterparts at any rate. A fallen realm overtaken by demons, or a kingdom freed from millenia of darkness - both of these are easier to sell to the FF playerbase than depictions that take too much from the Americas or Australia without sufficiently unique additions to them.