Overall really dissapointed with the writing on this patch's MSQ, it felt absolutely amateur.

First and foremost the funeral, which was a nice touch for Sphene, but you cannot convince me that not a single soul in the entirety of Solution 9 couldn't open their mouth to confront our group about the fact we meddled in their affairs and ultimately led to Sphene's demise. While the truth is different, it seems absolutely normal that at least some of them should lay the blame on us and ask us why did we ruin their paradise, yet none do, it's irritating.

The entirety of the dialogue in the lab felt extremely robotic and devoid of any emotions. In fact, nobody seems to even want to talk properly this patch for some reason. There are critical pieces of information being shared about Gulool Ja's mother yet nobody seems to want to discuss them openly with the group or Gulool Ja himself, which you think would be the point of this entire search.

Don't get me started on the awful filler that was Koana's segment...a man who grew up hating the Rroneek thinking his parents left him for them and in a hot minute he suddenly wants to throw his life away very stupidly for a single one of those prey animals all the while assuming a very important duty to protect a hundred thousand of people behind. And that's supposed to be the vow of "Reason"? No, that's a big dumbass is what it is. Once again nobody to tell him he was being irrational. And of course, what better to sprinkle all that very positive and naive filler with an astounding revelation about his parents from the PoV of a random NPC that might have seen a couple 20 years ago for a few seconds while fleeing for his life.

And finally, the Sphene plot twist, oh boy. You know i actually enjoyed the plot that the citizens are struggling with their newfound freedom and fear of death, but all of that is immensely meaningless now if they can't fight those trials on their own. Sphene is alive,there's two of them, which means Sphene is gonna end up babysitting them further, and finally release a heartfelt speech about how their lifestyle bad, so they must change, and they will obey their queen because that's all they can do.


Look i've been a FFXIV player since 1.0, having the mark on my back and being usually very open to whatever was thrown at us. But this, this was possibly the first time in my long 13 years that i actually wanted to skip the cutscenes, and i'm fairly certain i'm not the only one. I hope they get their thoughts together and figure a proper red thread they wanna follow for the long upcoming years as we avoid poor writing and overwhelming filler content.