FFXIV Dawntrail is a test...
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My favorite part of the story was the last fight where she says you are the most dangerous and sends everyone else away, but then they screw it up by having you know who show up in the end to save the day.
After the MSQ, I understand why Hydaelyn didn't have a rescue plan for Tural at End Walker.
Power of understanding.... She was adamant to kill her brother, she knew her whole life but never knew whats really going on in his mind and never cared to find out. So no understanding for her own brother. He has to die because he is bad. Sphene - manipulative, complicit in killing her people, willing to sacrifice every single life on the source: "She's nice. She just wants to protect her people. Just like me". Wait what???
I was more invested in Erenville, Krile and Gulool Ja Ja than any other character in the story. Just my 5 cents
I went from being disgusted by Wuk Lamat, to the. Liking her, and then disliking her character by the end of the MSQ…it felt like they are trying build powerful faction leaders like in WoW….it doesn’t work in FF14 when they made it clear for 10 years that ur avatar is the MC.
oh boy do i love IN MY OWN STORY not being the main character... Dawntrail in my eyes has been a massive failure whenever Wuk Lamat was on screen i could tell my attention was lost, and there was so many times that i had just taken a break to level other classes... that being said the past 10 years has earned my faith that they can have a return to greatness. in the future i may just skip as much as possible from this expansion
Everyone has to act uncharacteristically stupid in order for the plot to move forward from start to finish including your own character the WoL and its usually in service to whatever Wuk Lamat wants and frustratingly it almost always works out for her in the end.
2nd story should have been Koana's journey. Take the lessons he's learned from his sister and move him to be a better Vow of Reason. It makes sense to the Vow of Reason face off against the Queen of Reason.
I know that i certainly dont want that everything gets overshadowed by one single character again, especially than that character overshadows the characters i actually care about.
Wuk Lamat: "We're going to beat you with the power of Friendship!"
I loved Koana, they should have build a story around the scions helping out Koana on his journey, the guy had a fraction of Wuks screen time and so much more development in spite of it.
It's not fun. I don't like Wuk Lamat or the overly blatant 'friendship uber alles' themes. I vote we bring back some finesse and subtlety in storytelling. If I stick around it's more for the endgame content and the dungeon puzzles, not Wuk Lamat
First half could be summarized as “we heard you like beast tribe quests, so here’s 6 at the same time.” Which is fine for getting to know the world and grow Wuk’s character. But my god, the amount of splinter cell 14 and fetch quests…. And unvoiced cutscenes…
My favorite part was definitely the first half of Zone 4. Finally we got rid of Wuk Lamat and our WoL was doing meaningful things again, like picking up poop 👍
I appreciate your cope, but I think the first half of DT's story is bad because it was just written horribly. If it was truly a test they wouldn't have made it so unnecessarily long either. They could have just done chill shorter stories in a more HW/SB length MSQ, DT has no business being nearly as long as EW. (For reference, HW and SB had around 10 hours of cutscenes, EW and DT are both around 20 hours of cutscenes).
As a writer and worked with other writers, you are right: this is a test. There are times when the creator of a story says, "Put A Fork In It, I'm Done", but sometimes a contract comes up from an investor, editor, boss or even fan demand that forces said creator to continue The story even though they said it's done. They will never admit it to the public because of a contract and maybe they will never say it no matter what. So in order to continue it, they end up posting a last minute story with plot holes and such which we all know as a "Filler Episode" to throw ideas at the wall to see what sticks. As we all saw by the results, looks like the First half didn't work and to be brutality honest, the second half has its issues, but a good number of it has already done in previous expansions and yet it still works; however we need to see what the Post-Dawntrail Story will bring in order to find out on what the writers will decide for the future of the game by listening to our feedback.
I think the major flaw of the first part of dawntrail was they didn't fully commit to the contest aspect of it. I really do think we should have been paired with zoraal ja during second last keystone trial getting to learn more of who he was instead of having it all tossed out at the last second. It was a real missed opportunity to not fight thancred and urianger it would have made for a fun plot device. All and all the expansion was okay nothing to write home about but not terrible IMO. If I had to compare to anything it would be stromblood but I think a more fair comparison is A realm reborn due to the fact both are supposed to be the first chapters in a new story.
While I do think the two halves of Dawntrail are intentionally different, I'm not entirely sure it was a "test" from the developers about how it would be received. It seemed to be more about setting up the ideals of Wuk Lamat before changing gears drastically to greater highlight the contrast between the two halves. Sphene seems to be a very deliberate foil to Wuk Lamat, as they seem to hold the same principles/ideals but are forced into very different situations; with Sphene in particular being a tragic character with the classic fatal flaw coming from a place with good intentions.
I feel like a great many of the MSQ issues could have been resolved by taking away some of the attention and spotlight from Wuk Lamat, who hogs the attention for the *entire expansion*, and give it to someone else. Krile got done dirty. Erenville was for the most part just an exposition machine. The Scions, more than any other expansion, mostly just sat on the side filling a gap in the party. Koana, Thancred and Urianger were not rivals like they were supposed to be, they spent most of the expansion cooperating with and praising Wuk Lamat. Zoraal Ja didn't have his motivations properly explored until *his literal deathbed*. Sphene only got ONE zone for us to get to know, which is nowhere near long enough for a proper sympathetic villain to be fleshed out, she wasn't even around for 90% of the last zone! Many plot points were just forgotten about or casually dismissed off-hand, like Kemretten being attacked turning into just "Oh, Zoraal Ja robbed me" later on, or Sareel Ja having obvious motivations and goals for reaching the Golden City, then he just dies and is forgotten about.