/r/ffxivdiscussion: Japanese reception to Dawntrail MSQ [SPOILERS]

[Swordsman]

[SPOILERS]

A thread went up on the FFXIV Discussion subreddit about Japanese reception to Dawntrail MSQ. Needless to say they don't like it very much either, and their criticism mirrors the criticism we're receiving on the English FFXIV official forums and on Steam.

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Original Post: Can't link the threads due to sub rules but they are from the FFO board on 5ch. You can search for

【FF14】黄金のレガシー・ネタバレ可の感想スレ【嫌なら見るな】

So far there's two threads with over 1000+ replies. Most of the feedback seems to be either lukewarm or negative, although the board itself may have a bias so take it as you will. The discontent generally centers around Wuk Lamat, tedious cutscenes/pacing and boring fetch quests. Impressions become more positive in the last two zones and there is praise for the dungeon/trial design and music. Some replies:

What happened to the Yoshida who immediately killed Moenbryda? Please kill Wuk Lamat I'm begging you

This feels like a marriage of ARR's errand boy questing and Stormblood's preachy moralizing

Can't believe they made the MSQ into one really long beast tribe quest

Finally thought we could put down our heavy baggage and adventure to our heart's content but we're stuck babysitting this cat

Emet Selch came to this no fun place. Is he an idiot?

Feels like they just turned Lyse into a cat

It's like they're hiding the lack of substance by dragging out the length of the cutscenes

Wuk is seriously empty headed. Why are we forced to support someone this inexperienced with no concrete policies?

Aren't there too many fetch quests? It's been 4 hours and no ID (instance dungeon), when can I start fighting

I want to play the "game part" already but the cutscenes to get there are too long

Yoshida's turtle shirt referred to this, huh?

I want to leave this succession race to someone else and vacation in the southern isles.

Estinien is the one who got to have an adventure.

Even when I skip the cutscenes I can correctly guess the gist of what they said, there's seriously no point in watching them

Even if it's the starting point for the next 10 year saga did they have to go as far as copying 2.0's slog?

Wuk Lamat is a stereotypical idealized character it's hard to relate to her, like she's the protagonist of a manga aimed at elementary schoolers

The dialogue is too template-like, there being no suspense about the next development is a fatal mistake

Tired of seeing so many lizards

From start to finish it's just problems caused by low IQ lizards, maybe slaughtering all the savages wasn't such a bad idea

Unlike japan, even the foreigners who usually give positive reviews when they are somewhat unsatisfied have 40% disapproval on Steam, isn't this bad?

The story skippers won so hard

Sphene was introduced 3/5 into the story it's too late to warm up to her. But Wuk Lamat was there since the start and she never grew on me so maybe that's not the problem

The terminal shutdown portion is such blatant playtime padding

The reception seriously hinges on whether you like Wuk Lamat, because the actual story is on the level of a shounen anime airing at 6pm

It would've been better to go on a vacation with the Scions all wearing swimsuits

Stop forcing me to watch an unskippable cutscene where literally nothing happens, I'll **** you

Even if the cutscenes were reduced by half it'd be too much, the plot is seriously so thin

At least in the sidequests when talking to NPCs, the WoL still feels like a main character. In the MSQ he's just a tag along.

Please bring back Ishikawa... *dies*

When they said Ishikawa was supervising, I bet what they really did was dogeza in front of her asking to borrow her name to salvage what they made

The overworld msq is on the level of sidequests. Honestly we should've let the Ascians kill everyone on this continent

When they said vacation, did they mean including to other games

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...dawntrail_msq/

Feel free to discuss your opinions below. Cheers.

[WeebPolice]

The overworld msq is on the level of sidequests. Honestly we should've let the Ascians kill everyone on this continent

This is my personal favorite comment, citizen.




Remember the fallen.

[Dorito_Burrito]

Why is it that when one of you two makes a post, the other one isn't too far behind with a reply?

[WeebPolice]

Why is it that when one of you two makes a post, the other one isn't too far behind with a reply?

Haven't you heard the news, citizen? We're both Titanmen alts.




The dark times will pass.

[Racen]

do you ever get bored of making these dumb posts?

[lushblush]

Emet Selch came to this no fun place. Is he an idiot?

that bastard played us like a damn fiddle!

[fioravictorine]

lol i really love this Japanese comments they are really funny!

and sadly reflects my thought on that awful character Wuk and Dawntrail MSQ

[Miracle_Diva]

I can relate to every comment on the list. This new "adventure" was nothing more than a suffering through text for me.

[Vyrerus]

Can confirm, you can skip all of Llama Tea's dialogue, and you literally miss out on nothing. Worst character they've ever forced on us.

Some say she's Lyse better written, but Lyse was far more mature in a rather mature storyline overshadowed by better characters. Llama Tea gets 85% of the screen time and dialogue boxes, including many dialogues that you can't Enter/X your way through, and her growth amounts to a campfire scene where she gets told to be more mature, and then decides to be more mature... without actually changing at all.

The Role quest NPCs actually experience more growth with a thicker plot in five role quests than Llama Tea does over the twelve dozen or so she's in.

And they force the WoL to warm to her without the player's opt in, as if she were as charming as Aphmau from FFXI or something. Ridiculous.

[Shibi]

...Llama Tea's...

I love that name for her, yep.