Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[LyrisAdamanteia]

She’s Puerto Rican.

Don'tcha know? Us latin folk can only be ambiguously brown, not like we were colonized by Spain a European nation after all, no ma'am. All latin folks are mestizo, no exceptions, no black, no white just brown. Either way its not like these folks care, they're here to spread an agenda.

[CapaxInfiniti]

At the border, send her back with a no return order.

[RedLolly]

She wouldn't even be so annoying if she wasn't represented by the fact that she has to be strong, she will be the queen, she knows everything. Plus seeing at the credits that Square Enix worked with DEI and Baby inc. then they hid this lmao. It's such an obvious pattern. Then you get quests like this;

- Speak to Wuk Lamat at the entrance to the Skydeep Cenote.
- Speak to Wuk Lamat.
- Speak to Wuk Lamat at the Gate of Remembrance.
- Speak to Wuk Lamat again.
- Speak to Wuk Lamat yet again.
- Speak to Wuk Lamat once more.

if this is a fun gameplay, then people have low standards. Even my friend who used to enjoy this game, found DT to be extremely boring so he just skipped all cutscenes.

Sweet Baby's influence is all over DT if you go looking. It's completely acceptable to have a consultant team to help with a project, especially in the case of having so much of South and Latin American ancient culture be portrayed. That's uncommon in JRPGs and having a few genuine experts could be awesome.

But it feels *bad* knowing the the Turali sections were sunshine and rainbows with every issue being resolved with relative ease, the main character being girl-boss esque type, and the story taking a hard left to battling a colonizing force with Western fantasy influences the moment said underappreciated culture got dirty. It's too easy to point to all of that and claim it's "woke." And God, poor Sena, but yes, she's a trans woman from PR. Anti-Wokes LOVE that. Even if we have legitimate criticism.

But it's also easy to point to other common young shonen writing tropes and see how those ideas also held DT back in certain aspects. (The big damn perfect hero coming clutch every time, befriending most rivals to allies, fear of hurting fan favorites, no conflict among friends, even multiple instances of obsessed underlings to villains. That happened twice!)

[Shialan]

Holy moly, you people are still going.

And there even is mentioning of DEI just one page ago.

Like, please seek help. Thank you for your understanding.

[Burmecia]

I don't think the re-recording is all that much of an improvement.

And as we can see from the lowercase yelling in 7.3 the VA did not improve.

I agree with you.

Just got polite moment when writing last time.

Something like: "Guess I should acknowledge that something was tried to fix the mess. Though it was nothing burger."

[Boblawblah]

Feels like people forget just how consistently underwhelming a lot of the English voice acting is in FFXIV, especially in DT. Lyna in Shadowbringers and a few others stand out at specific moments, but a lot of the time, everyone feels like they're entirely too calm about everything going on. Actual screaming is unheard of.

Wuk still getting this kind of hate is just silly.

[Eeeeveeeeeeee]

Sir this is a Wendys