I'm not nearly as critical as most on Dawntrail, BUT...

[Corgain]

I want to preface this by saying that this is not another Wuk Lamat rant or anything like that. She's not my favorite character, but I'm also not as annoyed by her as many others are. I actually love the Turalian zones for the most part and the story is decent, it's no Endwalker by any means, but I was warned not to expect it.

Here is the critique I want to get out of my system though. I do not really care for this iteration of Alexandria. When someone told me Alexandria from FF9 played a major role in Dawntrail, I got super excited as FF9 was my 2nd favorite of the series and a close one at that. So I was a tad disappointed to arrive and find that... it is nothing like the Alexandria I remember. I actually turned to ask my friend, "What am I playing, Mass Effect?" I understand the lore reason, I do realize that the familiar Alexandria does exist, but it's completely trashed. And therein lies my problem. Pretty much every location from a former Final Fantasy game is either ruins (Archeo Alexandria, Doma, Rabanastre, Ivalice, Troia), mentioned as destroyed off screen (Lindblum, Cleyra and pretty much every other FF9 locale) or is only available in a dungeon and not overworld exploration, and heck, they are both in the process of being wrecked, IN the dungeon. (Alexandria, Baron, Rabanastre) I guess since they already destroyed the FF4 reference world with the Void, I was hoping maybe we'd get an intact reference world at some point. (Seems they like trashing the locations from former games for some reason or remodeling them into something unrecognizable)

I do like the expansion so far and didn't want to nit pick the little things, but I just wanted to get my minor disappointment of the Alexandria arc off of my chest.