So that 7.1 msq...

[Iedarus]

Going through it now and already found a typo in Gulool Ja's dialogue when he's using the terminal. This'll be interesting.

[sindriiisgaming]

Going through it now and already found a typo in Gulool Ja's dialogue when he's using the terminal. This'll be interesting.

found that yesterday too.

[Astronema]

I feel the quality of writing has definitely shifted from mature to childish, and I am worried they are trying to pursue a younger audience, hence, the shift in tone.

No, they are trying to pursue bankruptcy. They want to be the test example case for Japanese companies that adopt western values full tilt. Once they do they will go down in history like the Hindenburg.


https://youtu.be/1ADVmuuBAa8

[Tharia]

Liked the ending but it were at best 5-10 minutes. The rst was indeed all over the place, ok the background story about the mother gave a nice touch if I cared more, but the part in the steps was a total waste of time.

[Kennar]

A few disjointed thoughts...

Right off the bat, the very first part of the MSQ, the quest giver is like "You should get some tacos! That guy over there makes the best tacos." Yeah, I know, we were introduced to Taco Guy within five minutes of setting foot on dry land. Also, my character has been in town for a while now, she probably knows where the best eating places are. Also also, I'm done with the taco meme as a whole. Stop it.

I'm glad I got to say that it was inappropriate to go to Sphene's funeral, but of course my character got railroaded into it anyway. I did think it was kind of funny how the Eorzean contingent was awkwardly standing off the side. Ever been to a funeral of someone you didn't know well and you're in the midst of the departed's friends and family? "So, how did you know Sphene?" "We, uh, worked together briefly." It would have made for some good drama if the populace were upset about Sphene's "killers" (and I use the word loosely) being there, but realistically they probably have no idea what went down so I'll give that a pass. Along the same vein, it would have been great if more of the story could focus on the complete and utter upheaval Alexandria's society would be going through, instead of everyone just having a case of the sad.

Regarding the little dude's mother--good to know that she did exist, but otherwise I didn't care. It's going to turn out that her soul was implanted into the final boss of the newest dungeon, or she'll be a trial in 7.2.

Back to Old West Zone--The train is fixed! (Yay!) But we'll never get to ride on it (Boo!). I don't even know where to begin with the rest of the chapter. The buffalo are people, too! And Koana's parents didn't abandon him, they saved his life! By... dropping him on the ground and running towards their own deaths, thereby abandoning him... you know what, let's move on. The "aetheric whistle" mcguffin just shows that the writers need to sit down and properly define how aether and magic work in this world. Aether and it's manipulation, as it currently exists, can do anything the writers need it to do. A good, believable, magic system has to have rules and limits.

The final chapter--Sphene is alive! Dun dun DUUUNNNN! Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Why wasn't that at the beginning of the patch, or revealed in a stinger at the end of 7.0? Why did I waste more than an hour on meaningless nonsense before the real story could begin?

Once again, so much missed opportunity. We could have began the patch investigating Living Memory with Y'shtola, or quelling riots, or acting grief counslers, anything! Instead we're left to follow other people and watch them do all the work until it comes time to kill something.

[Zakuyia]

A few disjointed thoughts...

Right off the bat, the very first part of the MSQ, the quest giver is like "You should get some tacos! That guy over there makes the best tacos." Yeah, I know, we were introduced to Taco Guy within five minutes of setting foot on dry land. Also, my character has been in town for a while now, she probably knows where the best eating places are. Also also, I'm done with the taco meme as a whole. Stop it.

I'm glad I got to say that it was inappropriate to go to Sphene's funeral, but of course my character got railroaded into it anyway. I did think it was kind of funny how the Eorzean contingent was awkwardly standing off the side. Ever been to a funeral of someone you didn't know well and you're in the midst of the departed's friends and family? "So, how did you know Sphene?" "We, uh, worked together briefly." It would have made for some good drama if the populace were upset about Sphene's "killers" (and I use the word loosely) being there, but realistically they probably have no idea what went down so I'll give that a pass. Along the same vein, it would have been great if more of the story could focus on the complete and utter upheaval Alexandria's society would be going through, instead of everyone just having a case of the sad.

Regarding the little dude's mother--good to know that she did exist, but otherwise I didn't care. It's going to turn out that her soul was implanted into the final boss of the newest dungeon, or she'll be a trial in 7.2.

Back to Old West Zone--The train is fixed! (Yay!) But we'll never get to ride on it (Boo!). I don't even know where to begin with the rest of the chapter. The buffalo are people, too! And Koana's parents didn't abandon him, they saved his life! By... dropping him on the ground and running towards their own deaths, thereby abandoning him... you know what, let's move on. The "aetheric whistle" mcguffin just shows that the writers need to sit down and properly define how aether and magic work in this world. Aether and it's manipulation, as it currently exists, can do anything the writers need it to do. A good, believable, magic system has to have rules and limits.

The final chapter--Sphene is alive! Dun dun DUUUNNNN! Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Why wasn't that at the beginning of the patch, or revealed in a stinger at the end of 7.0? Why did I waste more than an hour on meaningless nonsense before the real story could begin?

Once again, so much missed opportunity. We could have began the patch investigating Living Memory with Y'shtola, or quelling riots, or acting grief counslers, anything! Instead we're left to follow other people and watch them do all the work until it comes time to kill something.

Its funny how ur suppose to be sad for speene yet we arr the same ppl who took down a pope, dethroned kings before. Its weird that now we magically feel guilty. I had to skip cutscene. XD it was getting too unbelievable

[Mortex]

It’s just so stupid that we have now 2 Sphenes back. Like one is in living somehow alive and kicking and we now have again a evil machine clone, so I assume they do the”one is the nice Sphene memories and the other is the queen eternal one” and this will effectively take out almost all consequences for killing the Alexandria rulers. Maybe they bring back all eternal we killed by turning off the terminals so we don’t have any bad consequences for some people that feel bad for killing the eternals. Also do people really care about little blues mum at all?????? The dungeon was kinda cool with the resident evil flair but the story with the mom is just “he’s hot I want a kid from him” like not even something interesting only for the mum too somehow disappear into thin air. Plus the buffalo part felt so out of place it’s kinda wild. It was just there too force koanas character exposition vomit (I won’t call that character Development) out and in less then 30 mins, just to be done with the guy.

Some x.1 stories were bad but this one by far the worst we had. Almost no new story points and a ending that totally invalidates almost all we did in living memory

[BabyYoda]

for the first time in my FFXIV journey,

I didn't watch the trailer for 7.1 story and I skipped all MSQ,

I am really here for battle content story is done for me and I will watch it all before 8.0 just to be aligned with it.

[Inputnamehere]

I dunno... Mr Koana was like, a very educated big brother who knew every solution to your problems.
Now he's like "even though I'm one of the most important individuals in my country I have to risk my life protecting an animal!"

What has happened to the poor man. Infected by Wuk Virus?

[Hallarem]

I dunno... Mr Koana was like, a very educated big brother who knew every solution to your problems.
Now he's like "even though I'm one of the most important individuals in my country I have to risk my life protecting an animal!"

What has happened to the poor man. Infected by Wuk Virus?

What I kept asking was " Why are we taking Erenville with us who cant fight. To a mission where we know its gonna be a tough fight"

Second. How did this nerdy cat (I liked Koana until he became lamatied) outrun me AND Wuk Lamat to take the frontline.