DT: State of the Game

[IDontPetLalas]

Imagine healing a drk at 100.
Drk:"hey I popped tbn and it's gone already, my worthless mit will be up again in 30 seconds and I'll struggle on my hands and knees until then ok?"
Healer: "ohh...thanks?"

That's far, far better than being in a group with a WAR., and even looking at it from the other side, playing a WAR, I really don't see the challenge. It should be brought much closer to where DRK is , and DRK brought up a bit.

[CuteBucket]

The MSQ Experience: Awful. Actively painful to get through. 2 points because there were a few moments in Shaaloani I enjoyed. I was really trying to give the benefit of the doubt here. The first half was slow and cheesy and predictable, but I thought it was building so something, so I just nodded and went along, even when I had to roll my eyes at parts. But once I got to the "twist" and met Sphene and realized this 4Kids half-baked friendship and understanding narrative was all I was going ever going to get out of Dawntrail, I was done. It was a chore to convince myself to keep playing. I was not expecting a masterpiece out of Dawntrail. I was more than happy to get another Stormblood, as I liked that expansion just fine and thought people dogged on it way too hard.

I genuinely cannot remember the last time I had this much of a bad time trying to get through a video game. Usually I'd just quit if that was the case, but I have years of love built of for this game and thought "they've only given me expansions I loved so far, why would they fail me this time?" and preordered the collectors edition, so I felt obligated to slog through the MSQ to get to the other side. I didn't skip a single cutscene, because I love the lore and worldbuilding of this game so much. Or at least I did. I like the previous stuff. I've also already written extensively about my issues with the story and characters in other threads, so I'll leave it at this: Wuk Lamat is bad but I don't think I've ever quite disliked a character that I felt I was "supposed" to like and feel sorry for as much as Sphene. She could have been so much more than she was. But everything about her is so indecisive and contradictory and half-assed that by the end of the game, I just wanted to delete both her and Wuk Lamat from my memory so I'd never have to think about a story arc so bad again in my life.

That leaves us with about a 4/10 in total for my Dawntrail review. BIG OOF.