Thread: 6.1 MSQ showcases the narrative problems that continue to plague the game's story

Originally Posted by Lily_Skye

How is this thread bait? It's not even an uncommon belief that EW had a lot of dead periods. The entire segment in Labyrinthos being a huge one. Felt like they sacrificed pacing for making sure we didn't finish too quickly.

Originally Posted by YukikoKurosawa

When I was discussing bloody tax policies with Vrtra, I had almost lost my patience.

This was one of the reasons I never liked Stormblood. The MSQ became almost predictable where every odd patch was weirdly for politics of the nations and every even patch had some really crazy action stuff going on. I was so bored hearing about politics of Ala Mhigo and Doma...

Originally Posted by Roflcopter

It looks like we will probably be tasked with cleaning up the 13th like we did the First. The twelve and the thirteenth are likely Unsundered turned primals like Hydaelyn. Something about cleaning up the 13th to unite the worlds again, etc., etc… I’m sure Emet Selch will show up as our Morgan Freeman to explain the plot at some point.

they could also be beings of power who came from another world. One of the worlds that meteion visited had 'auspices of power' who ruled over the world, but destroyed it in a fit of rage. Perhaps the remnants of that civilization came to Etheirys and were permitted to stay with the condition that they not meddle in the affairs of the mortal races.

I honestly like the fact that they look into logistics and politics involved with the different nations and acknowledge that, no, you can't just instantly bounce back from something like being occupied by a hostile country or experiencing an apocalyptic disaster.

Though I also disliked sections like Labyrinthos part 2 and a lot of Mare Lamentorum that really just felt like they wanted to drag things out for some reason.