Thread: Patch 7.1 Discussions

Busy with work and schoolwork... and slacking off...

MSQ

Good in some places, mediocre in others.

The Alexandrian stuff continues to be more interesting to me. The funeral for Sphene was a nice touch, the Yuweyawata Field Station was an excellent dungeon. I see a lot of Resident Evil comparisons but to me it felt more like something out of The Callisto Protocol (loads of potential, poor execution) with the inhospitable areas outside the lab, the prison cell-like lab rooms, and such. I'm not all that surprised they actually answered the question of who Gulool Ja's mother was; it was one of the biggest questions I had about things, but I didn't think they'd use it to lump more misery on the poor kid. Lord knows he needs some hugs.

(I'm of the mind her soul was transferred into the Killer Rabbit of Yuweyawata and succumbed to the feral nature of the vessel as detailed in the lab notes; there's no other way we could have seen her memories after defeating it but shortly before it expired.)

Really puts even more light on how terrible Zoraal Ja became and how the Arcadion already knows overuse of feral souls has serious degradation problems.

Fake Sphene will be stopped by Living Sphene coming back to guide the people into the future. I'm 99% positive that's who Y'shtola and Shale found in Living Memory in the stinger, anyway. Remember, they said her tiara was a special model regulator... even if the AI Sphene we interacted with throughout 7.0 was a facsimile, it's not inconceivable Preservation found a way to put her in suspended animation and shutting down Living Memory knocked her out of it.

The Koana segment definitely felt like filler, and a problem they should have solved before they even built the train. On top of that it's conveniently solved within its own mini-plot. All the problems of Dawntrail's writing condensed into an hour-ish episode right there, folks!

I swear I'm gonna do Interphos EX someday for the sake of pride...

Alliance Raid

It's an extended XI reference, which we all saw coming. Seeing as I never played that game, all I have to go on about it are tidbits I picked up from Dissidia, Stranger of Paradise, and Wiki article reads so... it's not really holding my attention story-wise.

Fun fights, even if they're incredibly hectic at first blush.

Sareel Ja returning was unexpected. I am not super disappointed by this, as I always wanted to punch him in the throat for being a slimy, smarmy scumbag. Hopefully this can be accomplished before he recreates Promathia or something.

I guess electrope can do anything now, even make sentient, self-aware replicas of people capable of eating (and presumably other things like sleeping and pooping). Just say it can do anything already... Wicked Thunder did say there was no limit to its potential, but now we're getting a little out of hand with it.