Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
Eh. I feel that Endwalker wasn't dark enough. And the urgency wasn't really there. By the time we head out into space, the Final Days had hit 2 zones in the entire world. Fire in the sky and everything. I think that it should have gotten more widespread as the story progressed. Even if the story's events weren't taking place in certain areas, I feel that the skybox should have at least been changed to reflect the coming apocalypse. Maybe set some random trees in the Black Shroud on fire too while they were at it. Something. Anything. The Final Days were not really as big of an issue as they made it out to be. I've got my fair share of gripes with EW, but this is my biggest one I think.
Yeah, this is still one of my problems with EW. If we had the starfall throughout parts of the world and maybe even changed or removed the BGM, it would've made a noticeable impact to the feelings of dread everyone was supposed to be having. While the Endwalker trailer didn't have that in the part of La Noscea the twins were in, things were at least on fire and there were blasphemies. Changing the skybox for part of the MSQ would've been the simplest thing and it's not like they didn't do that in ShB.

Pokemon Arceus had a much more compelling "end times" feeling.


While EW could have been helped by being darker, I don't think that removing burgers or "froth and foam!" would have helped anything. It went to darker places than other expansions did but they also set our expectations up with a worldwide disaster in the trailer for the expansion, only for it to just affect 2 brand new zones and one of those was an empty bombed out wasteland to begin with. If we had starfall or a sense of danger in zones we've grown familiar with for a decade, then it would've increased players' sense of urgency a lot more than the job quest blasphemies did for us.