Difficulty of normal content.

[MaaryZeleste]

Honestly, even in this thread, something like 95% of people like the new content in terms of the combat, but it seems many people have issues with the story.

Some of this is just naked transphobia, which is just BS.

Some of it is because the WoL is not the center of the story. TBH our story arc has been completed and we have to be a mentor because there really isn't a credible threat out there for us.

Some of the criticism might be for cultural pluralism, to which i say, what game have you been playing? FFXIV has always been about anti-imperial cultural pluralism from the begining.

Some just didn't like a Simple Shonen tournament arc story. Wuk Lamat is basically furry naruto, and that's ok.

It's also very hard to followup Shadowbringers/Endwalker that dealt with deep exitensial themes with tremendous empathy, which might have created some of the best stories and most nuanced perspectives i've ever seen.

IMO dawntrail story was fine, it wasn't bothersome at all. IMO the combat was great and refreshing and I'm HYPE for savage, but if anything Dawntrails lesser (but still very good) reviews is probably about the story and NOT about the combat.

Transphobia cope, the voice actor sucks ass. Ruins an otherwise decently written character.

[Jukebox12]

Transphobia cope, the voice actor sucks ass. Ruins an otherwise decently written character.

i don't like it was 100% the voice actors fault on this. mostly it seems whoever is in the studio given directions to the voice actor

[MakariaZofura]

Transphobia cope, the voice actor sucks ass. Ruins an otherwise decently written character.

1) I disagree.
2) in FF13 people said a ton of bad things about the english voice cast, and when you play it, you feel it, but it was more the direction as that cast has done well since. I replayed it with Japanese voice cast and was outstanding.
3) Honestly, the whole voice cast was quite a departure in both their direction, style, and wording from the previous expansions, but I think it's because they used actors from the Americas. Wuk Lamat's VA is Puertorican and Gulool JaJa's is Nicaraguan, for example. It creates a different feel we're not used to, which is in part of the reason.

That said, this topic is pretty far away from the dungeon content, I think it's safe to say the grand majority of us liked the battle content in DT.