A reminder that Ala Mhigo ise still useless

[DamianFatale]

- Four zones in the teleport menu despite having an entire section devoted to Gyr Albania as a country. One hub, but its not a main city state. Its a ruined monk headquarters, with again almost no monks active, or returning except for side quests, and job quests. :/

- Ala Mhigo is blocked off completely. You cannot enter the city, and please don't tell me the quarter, or the dungeon counts. It barely does, because its not in the city proper.

- Most of the towns don't let you in any of the buildings unless its ruined, or really special. Can't go inside shops, can't get to know the culture. Even Thavnair despite having a lot of blocked off locations is better than this. You don't feel like you don't really have any way of exploring the culture there, but Ala Mhigo is a poor example of country for the player to visit, because its so blocked off. I get that it's war, and people may be hesitant to let warring strangers in, but to me this is just an excuse that could of easily been slowly worked on through the story a lot better. How hard is it to plop an inn, a few indoor shops, and slowly show the NPCs getting friendlier with you.

- So heavy in the story, so essential to the end plot of the first arc, but still no city state. Despite Little Ala Mhiigo existing, and such a huge impact of its crisis being seen in 2.0 city states. They have been hyping this place up, but still nope. Nothing.

Ala Mhigo is a waste, and its a sad one, because it really is beautiful, and has a charm going for it. :/ There is just no reason to visit there. It's time for some new Ala Mhigo content. I definitely want to see a variant/criterion dungeon or two from this place, the actual city open up, and maybe even a residential district. We NEED more content to make this place active. With all the heavy presence of the state in the story, it is a complete disservice to leave it so closed off, despite being able to tread through it. It's the same mistake FFXV made with the other cities. They just serve as backdrops for you to walk through as you go merry on your way to insert empire of numbered Final Fantasy game you are playing. SO BORING. They really need to write out that formula, and show MORE. Even other Final Fantasy games that did this like FFIX, and VI at least let you explore them a bit, and didn't completely make them empty. Even CLEYRA that was destroyed in FFIX has more going for it than the entirety of Ala Mhigo and the Quarter, AND IT WAS DESTROYED.

Square Enix has no excuse for this one. It was completely mishandled.

[Carin-Eri]

Have to admit, the story does fall down a bit here. It's like "let's liberate this ever-so important city... so we can forget about it once we have!"

[RitsukoSonoda]

Have to admit, the story does fall down a bit here. It's like "let's liberate this ever-so important city... so we can forget about it once we have!"

Is that any different than the "lets build this fabled weapon of legend... so we can discard it for a generic weapon once we find out there is a thing happening at this new place."

Games have always had their varying degrees of nonsense lol.

[Larirawiel]

They could make a new housing zone in Ala Mhigo.


Cheers

[Carin-Eri]

Is that any different than the "lets build this fabled weapon of legend... so we can discard it for a generic weapon once we find out there is a thing happening at this new place."

Games have always had their varying degrees of nonsense lol.

Well, that IS true....

Although I do still see where the OP is coming from. I mean, once Stormblood is done, it feels as if Ala Mhigo is too. There are no tribal quests based there, few side-quests, it doesn't seem like the higher-level job quests use the area (though haven't played all that many of those to be honest, so not 100% on that)

I don't know - it just feels as if, moreso than anywhere else, they've given us no reason to go back there.

[Brightamethyst]

There are no tribal quests based there

The Ananta tribe quests are right there in the Fringes.

it doesn't seem like the higher-level job quests use the area

The EW healer role quests take place almost entirely in Gyr Abania.

To be fair we also dumped Arenvald, Yugiri, Gosetsu, Fordola etc.

To be fair, those characters all featured heavily in the EW role quests.

[Carin-Eri]

The Ananta tribe quests are right there in the Fringes.




The EW healer role quests take place almost entirely in Gyr Abania.




To be fair, those characters all featured heavily in the EW role quests.

I'd argue that The Fringes are not Ala'Mhigo - I mean a fringe is, by definition, "the border or outer edges of an area or group".

As for role quests - I did note in the post you quoted that I haven't completed many of them, and I haven't done any of the healer ones.

[Mimilu]

To be fair, those characters all featured heavily in the EW role quests.

And poor Arenvald deserved better. (｡•́︿•̀｡)
I liked Gosetsu become a healer though. (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
Although I have to wonder why they ended the physical range role quest in a cave, a.k.a. an enclosed area (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

[ASkellington]

Is that any different than the "lets build this fabled weapon of legend... so we can discard it for a generic weapon once we find out there is a thing happening at this new place."

I would argue yes... considering we have a glam option and we can pretty much say we're using said weapon for however long we want. The reality is still true and makes 0 sense as you would think that such a powerful weapon would still be good well into the next expansion (like over half of it) but meh. My suspension of disbelief is... inconsistent at best we'll say and leave it at that.

[Canadane]

Is that any different than the "lets build this fabled weapon of legend... so we can discard it for a generic weapon once we find out there is a thing happening at this new place."

Games have always had their varying degrees of nonsense lol.

Entirely different. Those new generic weapons are slightly sharper.
But kinda discarding an entire city-state is a lot.