Part 7:
Now what else is there to cover, well this is a topic I am kinda dreading talking about but I think we need to do it. The Story. Honestly I dont even wanna go into too much depth about it, some people hate it others love it. Im off the opinion that FF14 has a lot of interesting Story lines but that it often suffers due to pacing and its formula. I also believe Dawntrail suffered extra hard because the devs made a lot of promises before it even released and many things just.... kinda feel like they were not true. Dawntrail being a “Beach Vacation” being one of em. The Scions and the WoL being on different sides another one. All we got from that was Thancred and Urianger “blocking” a way in a Dungeon so we had to take a different Route. Gameplay wise it affected nothing. It had no real Impact on the story or anything else really. I also hate the fact that our WoL could be replaced by a cardboard cut-out. Our char is insanely stiff and does nothing in cutscenes. We are a being that fought world ending disasters. Who have seen everything from betrayals to assassin schemes. Yet neither we the WoL nor Alisaie or Alphinaud realized Wuk-Lamat would be kidnapped. That is just bad writing. The villain didnt even use any distraction for us. They just had someone send for Wuk-Lamat alone and she went while we waited. The writing couldn't have been worse for that.
It is also not a thing of liking or disliking Wuk-Lamat that is a problem. What is a problem is how many lines they gave her and how often she had to repeat things. Someone actually did a word count and Wuk Lamat in 7.1 already had as many words and lines as Alisaie and Graha Tia.
She managed that in basically an expansion release and 2 patches. ( she was alreaedy in 6.5 )
That is just too much. And most of it happened due to bad writing and pacing. The scions also had been pushed back a lot. Remember how in Shadowbringers pretty much each scion had their own group and cause they joined because it fit their beliefs and was something they could get behind? Urianger and the pixies. Alisaie and the sick people and caretakers. Exarch and Crystarium. Thancred and Ryne. Alphinaud and Eulmore. And in the end it all got together. And despite all that we had a huge supporting cast for each of them