Hey everyone! A big thanks again for all the support! I had a bit of copyright trouble with this one and the original upload was completely blocked (apparently WWE own the Stormblood trailer lmao), but it's all sorted out now. The Shadowbringers video is up and ready for next week, as well - it clocks in at just over 2 hours! I hope that's not too long... Feel free to make fun of the glaring mistake I made about Cyan's theme 🤣 Not sure why I left it in tbh! Anyway, I look forward to seeing what you guys think! Thanks again!
@drakologarnus7248
3 ай бұрын
i cant wait i love your work! you sum it all up perfectly
@QinoColada
3 ай бұрын
So about Yotsuyu’s name change, Tsuyu in Japanese is a dewdrop, and Yo is night. So taking out Yo from Yotsuyu suggests that she is now in the light, but what happens to a dewdrop when morning comes? It evaporates. Sadly, this part is lost in English.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
That's actually kinda cute! Shame it's lost in translation :(
@luisburgos7365
3 ай бұрын
I suppose we can say it’s lost in translation (and it is) but people like you educate and help us appreciate the game more deeply. Thank you! I’ll be sure to be spreading this tidbit of info
@iantaakalla8180
7 күн бұрын
Honestly, that makes the fact that Asahi, which apparently means something like “the morning” as dangerous as the lyric “the sun is setting” in P12’s song.
@maruisaiahnapa7381
2 ай бұрын
"Does anybody stay f****** dead in this game?!" I would say Haurchefant would like a word with you, but he can't.
@MayHugger
2 ай бұрын
Technically no, his spirit or whatever it is appears to help us remove Niddhog’s eyes from Estinien.
@kuraichyan
3 ай бұрын
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but Gotetsu shaving his head a symbol of retiring is a common thing in the past, where samurai and others would shave their heads and become monks as a sign of changing their life significantly and leaving the world. So it makes sense that he did that for this transition.
@Slayerlord13
3 ай бұрын
I actually really liked Lyse when I played through Stormblood last year. Had no idea so many people hated her. Frankly I was impressed the writers managed to wrangle a somewhat compelling character out of "Comic Relief Cardboard Cutout #4", oh excuse me, "Yda"
@ThisismineIguess
3 ай бұрын
They didn't "make a character out of" Yda, they basically deleted her. If they'd refined Yda as she was and changed her into a serious person when it came to matters of her homeland, that would be making a character out of Yda and would've created depth and nuance that would've granted her character gravity, going from manzai duo woman to crazed nationalist wanting to tear back Ala Mhigo however she can. No, they did the "actually this character was just a sibling!" tweest again(first was with Nael Van Darnus, who was also actually his younger sister all along) and gave us Lyse, who remains contentious to date.
@kelog5446
3 ай бұрын
I didn't really understand Lyse, mostly because I skip cutscenes when I want to charge into battle, and cs's that seem like they are going nowhere. I went back and watched all the storm blood scenes later, at the time I didn't really appreciate the writing for what it was. The beating I took from Zenos(mind you I was beating everything that crossed my bath)put me on a path to get stronger for our eventual rematch. Beating him with the squads help proved that revenge is...empty calories...at best
@MirroredDreamscape
3 ай бұрын
Who were comic relief cardboard cutouts #1-3? There ain't any left, really. Yda was the only genuinely cheery, goofy, straightforward character we had. Everyone else behaves like some tortured drama major student that's trying way too hard to be taken seriously, and now that's Lyse too. It's a sad state of affairs when people will dump on a character just for playing the simple fun person, especially in a world saturated enough by Shakespearean actors. Ever notice how Alisaie is so popular because she's always acting like she just doesn't have the patience for all of the theatrical nonsense going on all around her, and just wants to get back to the kicking of butts? That's a token consolation to make up for what we lost when Yda was taken from us.
@hickknight
3 ай бұрын
Back when stormblood was recent(side note: I should play through all of the MSQ at least once again.), I remember disliking Lyse, how she got put into a position of power through no achievements of her own I could think of. It wasn't earned. The patch MSQs were fine, and I liked how they dealt with the aftermath of a war, having to rebuild even political structures to make things keep running smoothly. As well as Lyse running the talks. That's when it felt fine to me. Honestly, what Stormblood did do well was on the gameplay side, not on the story side, at least when it came to everything not Doma in 4.0.
@Slayerlord13
3 ай бұрын
@@MirroredDreamscape #4 was just a random number picked for comedic effect, ironically enough.
@pockystyx4087
3 ай бұрын
Stormblood will forever be the expansion where I really started to care about the Scions, the conflict with Garlemald, and when I actually started to really like the actual gameplay of FFXIV (a lot of the QoL changes from HW to SB helped me lol).I love the MSQ, and all the 4.X content; and still think it has my favorite 4man and 24man raid series of the expansions. Also; Lyse is a good character, she's a young woman trapped in a shitty situation of hiding who she even was for years, and torn between Scion dutieis and wanting to liberate her home country. Goes on a coming of age quest; learning from other leaders in Ala Mhigo and Doma, and comes back a smarter and more confident person. It's crazy how much vitriol I remember seeing about her just. . . existing in SB MSQ, despite the fact that she doesn't really do anything wrong? In comparison I remember being surprised at how little there was at Aliphinaud having created the driving force that pushed us into HW, and the player base took the obvious lesson to not judge him too harshly for it. I dunno if its a sexism thing, or just that Alphinaud had been with us longer; but people REALLY hated Lyse and would not let you forget about how bad she was, for an uncomfortably long time lol
@taigaaisaka6305
3 ай бұрын
@@fredy2041 At this point she's the best Scion. If just for the fact that she actually went through her own character arc, found out what she wanted to do with her life and followed through it. The other Scions on the other hand... are just there to sell merch. They all have their own goals, which in Endwalker they repeated to us 4 times. Yet all of them are still hanging around doing whatever with the player rather than doing what they said they were going to do. Ironically, Lyse was saved by the fact she wasn't always there and thus didn't get time to build a fanbase that demanded for her to always be there, as such, she was allowed to grow as a character and move on with her life. Unlike the other Scions which are stuck in the same place for the foreseeable future. EW was supposed to be the end of the scions, with YoshiP even telling players to enjoy their last adventure with them for a while, and what happened? All the scions are present in the Post-Release patches and they are all going to be with us in Dawntrail.
@TeaGryff
3 ай бұрын
I really liked this. It's nice to hear a story recap while also getting a review. Stormblood was a fond time for me going through the MSQ, and I think its patches are all fantastic. You are dead on with the trials being so unique and interesting. I've been saying this for over a year to my FC friends who really don't care for Stormblood. Thank you for making me not feel crazy. I really like the expansion's big emphasis on travel and discovering new cultures. It's as much of a globe-trotting adventure as it is a crusade for liberation. Other expansions have you explore and experience new places, but Stormblood goes out of its way to emphasize the peoples' everyday life-their eccentricities, their religion, their perspective towards their invaders, etc. It drives home the main theme that these people deserve, above everything, to be free. I also think the Aether Current quests (although I can't stand aether currents as a concept) have some touching moments to them that further accentuate those central concepts. Stormblood mixes its emphasis on fascinating culture with a gripping rebel story, and it ends up making a pretty grounded and unique experience, especially in comparison to its more fantastical expansion siblings.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
The trials are some of the best across the entire game and that is a hill I will happily die on! And I loved how Stormblood took its time with introducing all of its varied new cultures - it's something that Shadowbringers and Endwalker do a great job with, as well.
@25xxfrostxx
3 ай бұрын
I have a feeling Dawntrail has a real chance of being "stormblooded" in a lot of popular opinion because of what it is required to do. Stormblood was not bad in any way. The problem was, it had to serve as a tempo reset coming off of the high of the end of Heavensward and then bring things down to earth again to start another arc. It went from ending a thousand year war by fighting a first brood dragon on the steps of faith to scoutinng for a resistance camp and introducing new groups and situations at a very basic level. After stormblood, the tempo was continuous between expansions. Shadowbringers and Endwalker were just one more step in the same path of a continuing narrative. Stormblood (and now Dawntrail) were tasked with starting something new and introducing people and factions that weren't a significant factor or even a presence until that point.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
It's definitely got a lot to live up to. I can see Dawntrail ending up as a good opener but probably the weakest of the next big arc. We'll see, though. It might pleasantly surprise everyone!
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
The issue with Dawntrail is, at least for those who comment (as of the time of this comment, spoilers) is that is the worst of the Stormblood-Endwalker expansions together. Namely, from those who would complain, Wuk Lamat is worse Lyse for she does not learn stuff and just preaches love and it works (not to mention her alleged bad acting and the fact that she is talked up the same way by all people), the second part is even more of an intrusion than Doma was on Ala Mhigo, the jesters are not back when it makes sense (and their music has been reallocated to some jaunty dead street, but this is very minor), the separation of the Scions was farcical since not only is Koana obviously reasonable but stuff conspires to make him and the Scions that support Koana work together and that makes the outcome of whatever all but certain (and before a patch Wuk Lamat and Koana being co-leaders was basically spoiled). And that’s only from the first half. As far as the second half goes, again, according to them, it is an intrusion upon the initial premise (which is finally getting good by the time it interrupts the Dawnservant thing), Krile and Erenville are part of the team but figure into it minorly, Sphene is a repeat of Endsinger but with the exact opposite methods, once again there is another doomed ancient empire with a way to explore what their life has been, and because Sphene is the “Endsinger in Tural” the same tropes regarding Shadowbringers-Endwalker apply which means a lamentation of the past is bound to happen. I do not necessarily agree with all of this. But in my opinion the dissenting opinion is that at least Stormblood is different because it is a story about how you messily progress through war to beat back an obvious detrimental imperial force, and the ramifications of victory (and the conditions that drove Domans to be led under Yotsuyu). Dawntrail looks like a weird jaunt to help solve a succession crisis, and while it is obvious a greater mystery would occur while the battle for Dawnbringer would happen because just a succession crisis cannot happen under the FFXIV story formula, the twist is stale. Unless it is intentionally so to signal that topics like those will not be visited again, people will take issue with Dawntrail permanently, and even then.
@aren_gee
3 ай бұрын
I like Stormblood as well over Heavensward and almost on par with Shadowbringers. The reason is, the plot is really grounded to reality and horrors of war and maybe that's the reason why it didn't resonate with people because it didn't feel like a "fantasy". You have a character, who essentially escaped the Empire with her older sister. This older sister is often depicted as brave and bright because she was intelligent, strong, compassionate and is seen as the future and hope of their homeland, as she was the legacy of their father. And while their homeland was under oppression, they both spent time away from it, and the older sister found her calling after she became an Archon. Archons are very smart people. However her life was cut short, and the younger sister, sensing that if the news of her death would break the spirits and hopes of their people, decided to take older sister's identity and preserve that hope. This younger sister is a hothead, reckless, and impatient. Despite this, she tried to blend in with the intelligent people who were surrounding her, which made her more insecure and question is she has what it takes to be her father and older sister's legacy. These doubts plagued her and was slowly starting to lose sight of who she really is. Then there's the war, wherein the oppressed were so down in the dumpsters, they'd rather not do anything to draw the ire of the Empire due to the fear of losing their loved ones. For them, even if they end up eating dirt, as long as they survive, they'd rather do it, than to lose their lives. This younger sister, who is now a woman, is introduced to the oppressed people and try to inspire them to fight, only to be rebuked because she doesn't know what they went through. She never lived a life of oppression. She lived a life of comfort, away from all the strife in their homeland, and the fact that she comes in stomping and claiming she will help them turn the tides of war, is an insult to her people who only knew the life of oppression. She never understood why her people would rather stay oppressed, and it was driving her mad. Only through the course of her journey, seeing their struggles firsthand, acknowledging their suffering while staying true to her conviction, experiencing losses and eventually finding herself outside of her older sister's shadow, she realized that she had to grow from being a hothead, reckless, and impatient to a wise, competent, and calm leader if she wanted to help her people and she is still working on these qualities. She was chosen as a figurehead of the rebellion from the start, a designation she never wanted in the first place, as she deems herself unfit for the role. Nevertheless, she took the responsibility of it, and eventually became the heart of the rebellion. It's a very compelling storyline, that's grounded in reality. The horrors of war, and the lengths mankind would go through for the sake of their survival. It's just that, majority of players prefer the more fantasy tropes of the previous expansion. I for one really enjoyed it.
@kuronaialtani
3 ай бұрын
I’ve always been a huge lover of war stories. I went into Heavensward hearing all the praise, expecting to play through a war story, & it completely disappointed. Never focused on the normal folk reacting to what’s going on until the patches, & was just a big “dragons sad, elves bad.” Stormblood I’d heard was bad, even the guy that got me to start playing, who knows me, told me it was bad And it blew me away. It’s focusing on the normal villagers, showing how once we prove we can fight back, they rise up to fight. I loved Lyse & Fordola & how they contrasted to each other as different sides of Ala Mhigo. Not to mention Zenos is my favorite trope in media for villains/antagonists, the “oh? You’re stronger this time. Yes, keep getting stronger!” Even after alt playthroughs I still utterly love Stormblood
@phutton
3 ай бұрын
The story, music, atmosphere, raids and how the jobs played back then were my favourite. It was my favourite expansion and remains so.
@tophergerkey
2 ай бұрын
It's more than just Kaien = Cyan; Hien's name as a kid was Shun, which was Cyan's son's name in the original Japanese. The story is even the same at a high level, with an oppressive empire invading and killing most of the family, with one survivor - the father in FFVI, but the son in FFXIV. Basically Hien is Cyan's alternate-universe son.
@Dzyntara
3 ай бұрын
I was a little shocked at the perception of Stormblood and Lyse after finishing the expansion for myself. I love her attitude and her growth - even if it could have been done better, it doesn't mean what's there isn't good. My major gripe with the story was how unseriously the writing took the straight up human trafficking in the Azim Steppe, and perhaps the Shinryu fight. Everyone else was a lot of fun, and really dark.
@chokoanders6546
3 ай бұрын
What i hate so much about zenos returning is how it just ignored the ending of base stormblood he takes his own life because he just had a fight that he knew would never be able to topped and yet he still comes back through his pure will to experience the thrill of a better fight
@rhno091
3 ай бұрын
This has been making passing time at work so much better. And it's nice seeing an updated, concise revisitation of all of the expansions. 10/10
@katnerd6712
3 ай бұрын
In case you haven't figured it out yet Estinien is.....BATMAN!! That's why he just shows up, solves a problem, and disappears. He's Batman.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Well, you don't see them both in the same place at once... You might be onto something here!
@TFalconwing
3 ай бұрын
I still am not terribly fond of Lyse as the Resistance leader when M'naago really comes across as the better option. Also, Zenos doing body swaps has an even older basis: the Sahaugin priest back when we fought Leviathan.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
How did I forget the Sahagin priest!? I'm bad at this lmao
@Brahmsonite
3 ай бұрын
Gotta 'love' how Lyse just puts herself on top of the Grr Albanian hierarchy.
@TheIvoryDingo
3 ай бұрын
@@Brahmsonite Lyse got made Resistance Leader by Conrad though? And if you speak with M'naago after Conrad's death, you learn that she was aware of his decision beforehand (and if she disagreed, she did not let it show). And the following is a direct quote from Conrad about why he decided on Lyse from before storming Castellum Velodyna: "For now, aye, but not forever. And, to be frank, I don't always know what to say to the ones who left, not to mention the youths. Nay, the Resistance needs a leader with a wider view. Someone who's not lived their whole life in Gyr Abania; who's known death and hardship but not been ground down by them. Aye. As you may have guessed, I've been thinking of asking Lyse."
@Brahmsonite
3 ай бұрын
@@TheIvoryDingo I was thinking more of later on when she's basically queen of the post empire govt.
@TheIvoryDingo
3 ай бұрын
@@Brahmsonite During 4.1, they explicitly rule out the option of a king or queen and instead worked more towards a system more akin to that of Ishgard post-Dragonsong War aka more a Council of various community leaders.
@YoutubeCommentor1
3 ай бұрын
I remember going through stormblood, a lot of people warned me ahead of time that it had a bad story but I really liked going to through it, especially the susanoo fight. Probably helps that Samurai was my favorite dps class until Reaper came out.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
*The seas part for we alone!* Loved that fight!
@ReaverPrime
3 ай бұрын
I've been on the train since 1.0, but I still watched from stem to stern. Having been in love with XIV from the jump off, I feel dutybound to support others that are passionate for it.
@fnerXVI
3 ай бұрын
I've recently made an alt and played through Stormblood again. Upon doing it a second time I think my opinions on it have changed. I definitely like it a lot more than I did before I replayed it.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
The replay is what changed my mind on it. The stuff in the Far East, especially the Steppe, is just... *chefs kiss*
@femboizooters
3 ай бұрын
FINALLY! I've been saying Stormblood is great for such a long time and I get so much grief for it, good to see people praising it and giving it the recognition it deserves.
@chokoanders6546
3 ай бұрын
I will always defend the stormblood post game patches nothing felt too rushed and it always had you questioning what was gonna happen next and what direction the next expansion would go
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, the patch quests were great. Even though I only got hooked on the game properly after Shadowbringers came out (I started during Stormblood but gave up on it for some dumb reason), I didn't catch any major spoilers, and I was so hype for it!
@ksNanoSquid
3 ай бұрын
For me, Stormblood was when the actual gameplay of XIV was at its peak. I spent many, MANY nights in Eureka, and I enjoyed every second of it.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I have some uh... interesting memories of Eureka. Babysitting a small group who refused to kill Louhi's adds and got wiped by them several times in a row was... fun... [eye twitches] Why oh why do I play healers in these zones...
@SapphWolf
3 ай бұрын
As someone who was maining Ninja during Storm Blood I actually very much liked the blow dart sequences. They felt very in character for Ygiri and my character to be doing. There's also a few moments where Yugiri has some extra bits of dialog for you if you've picked up ninja. So having her reference my Ninja training the same way they'll reference the fact that you are the second Azure Dragoon if you've completed the Dragoon lvl 50 class quest during Heavensward, was pretty cool.
@KogaHarine
Ай бұрын
Yeah her mentioning that Oboro would be proud of us for how well we did really made me happy about choosing to be a Ninja main.
@astrealove2247
3 ай бұрын
At the moment I don't have time to watch a 1½ hour long video, but I've been saying it for years. Stormblood is amazing, and my personal favourite expansion of the game. While the story have it's ups & downs, I feel like it's paced almost perfectly, it doesn't drag on forever like Shadowbringers or Endwalker, but rather it feels like you're playing it through acts, and each zone have it's own unique story to it. And even if we disregard the story, it still holds up as one of the best expansions, the Omega raid series is amazing, and Ivalice alliance raid is also great, and the Four Lords extreme trials is really fun too, and you can't forget stuff such as Eureka and Baldesion's Arsenal, it's amazing content there for the taking. We could even go a bit deeper and talk about jobs & balance and such, and I feel like most jobs pretty much peaked during STB, not all but the majority of jobs felt very good to play back then. Oh, and we can't forget that they introduced Ultimate raids here as well, also a massive upgrade.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
The side content is top-tier, for sure. Lot of creativity in there! LOVED the Four Lords trials, and the raids were all fantastic too.
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
The Ivalice raids are the only way to gain insight over Cid’s story arc ending by unlocking Bozja, and itself basically hint at the power of auracite in general and what the Heart of Sabik does, so the Ivalice raids are very important in terms of lore.
@robbaskerville253
3 ай бұрын
Stormblood was awesome, a big step up from Heavensward. Bigger world. More grounded story. Better villains. Lyse was great. Less snow. Namazu. Ninja turtles Great stuff.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I like how one of your points is Namazu. You've got your priorities right, yes yes.
@SenetAsylum
3 ай бұрын
7:14 can I bring to attention a cool little detail that I feel shouldn't go remiss? During this cutscene, if you're playing as a healer, you get unique dialog from Krile and in animation assist with the healing process. There is similar scenes within Shadowbringers, I do not know if there was one in Endwalker however. Small note but a welcome touch for the healer MSQ players non the less! :3 (Edit: I did find there is also unique healer dialog choices in Endwalker too along with many more cool dialog relating to job and racial choices.)
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Yeah I noticed that stuff the first time round! Sometimes it pays to be a healer :)
@aznhomig
3 ай бұрын
I think Heavensward was still a better overall story than Stormblood, but Stormblood absolutely does not deserve the supposed criticism that it gets. In terms of world-building and setting up the greater geopolitical stakes, Stormblood is a great expansion that greatly expands the world of FFXIV overall by introducing Ilsabard and Othard as the other two Great Continents. In terms of content and gameplay, Stormblood ranks far superior to Heavensward with all of the job adjustments that it introduced that fixed a lot of the major complaints HW had, as well as introducing Adventuring Foray content. While Eureka is a bit polarizing, I think it's some of the best group content of the game and is a great endgame time sink that was sorely missing in EW.
@The4thHorsemanIT
2 ай бұрын
The head shaving for Gosetsu is part of an historical tradition in samurai life in Japan. Those samurai that were spared from an eroic death in battle and grew too old to keep fighting were shaving their heads and become Biddhist monks, the shaving is one of the role requirements.
@DTCTVP
Ай бұрын
I actually loved and still love Stormblood and Heavensward as their own self-contained stories. It kept the hype as the Warrior of Light being a hero but not a demigod, and gave them realistic challenges and obstacles that had to be overcame with collaboration and teamwork and pure luck. (Endwalker doesn't work without Shadowbringers, and while many loved the latter it felt too Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy 90s era for me to really appreciate. Emet-Selch is not a character I found charming.)
@bidyogames
3 ай бұрын
I loved going through Stormblood! When we get to the Azim Steppe is when the story really got me hooked. I hope in later expansions we get to see Gosetsu again. Can't wait for the Shadowbringers video! Keep up the great work.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Well if that's what got you hooked, I hope you do your role quests ;)
@bidyogames
3 ай бұрын
@DynaChris Aww shit I must've skipped them then since I don't remember what happened in them at all D:
@magpieRipley
3 ай бұрын
i've been really enjoying having these on while i mess around in game! i think it'd be really fun if you covered the four lords storyline or the omega raids in a separate video! just cos i like those stories both alot.
@Reycied
3 ай бұрын
Great video! There's one thing I disagree on, though...I don't think Zenos' revival needed any more pointing out than it already got. We've seen Ascians jump bodies, and we've seen mortal bearers of the echo transfer their souls into other vessels (specifically, the elder of the Sahaguin). Along with the Elezen's katana moves and spouting about fighting the WoL again, I always felt like it was a big, glaring neon sign of what happened.
@Urikanu
25 күн бұрын
I *love* Stormblood. It's my favorite by far, and I will die on this hill
@Ravencrest172
3 ай бұрын
Love these recap videos. A quick note, the lip synching (or lack thereof) is intentional. FFXIV 1.0 had full lip synch for all different languages. When 1.0 fell flat they decided to go with a more stylized version of the talking animations. They did so because this allowed them to create a single cutscene (instead of different versions depending on language region) which saved them a bunch of time and resources. Time and resources better spent on other things.
@lanisolfire5692
3 ай бұрын
the patches at the end of stormblood are my favorite part of the story of the game as of now(Ive finished the msq threw EW). it legitimately ask a very hard question
@courtgame
3 ай бұрын
Cant wait to replay stormblood as a viper
@autumneagle
3 ай бұрын
Hien became my favorite faction leader, really wish we had more of him after Stormblood but I understand why. It's not like we get a ton of Merlwyb or Kan-e-Senna. (I almost said Nanamo but she's used almost as much as the Scions it feels like)
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
At least Merlwyb is useful in most crises. Kan-E-Senna is never used.
@conwaysquest6961
2 ай бұрын
Gosetsu's shaved head is representative of him taking monastic vows and becoming a wandering monk on a religious pilgrimage. Buddhist monks shave their heads as part of their religious oaths.
@atomictoaster3393
3 ай бұрын
Cant wait for your shadowbringer video, which personally the best one for me
@superandre17
3 ай бұрын
Agreed, I absolutely love Stormblood
@masterplusmargarita
3 ай бұрын
My big problem with Stormblood is how the front half of it feels like a bunch of nested sidequests. During the Ruby Sea arc there's a bit where your motivation is -Retake Gyr Abania -To do this, we must retake Doma -To do this, we must cross the Ruby Sea -To do this, we must do a favor for the pirates -To do this, we must do a favor for the Blue Kojin -To do this, we must do a favor for the Raen It's by far the worst of it, and that problem goes away pretty much completely once you're back in Gyr Abania, but so much of the expansion feels like you're just going off on tangents that don't have that much to do with the actual driving force of the story that I found it infuriating. Specifically being stuck on the Kojin tangent and the bit where you go do menial work for Magnai really got on my nerves. It's a shame, too, because when you're not trudging through what feels like filler it's often got really good worldbuilding and storytelling, and I still maintain it's got the best group duties out of any expansion on average. It's like ARR in that I think there's a really good story there, but it's covered in layers and layers of distraction and tangent. Like, the Tsuyu arc and the prelude to Shadowbringers with the Scions going down is some of the best stuff in all the MSQ, and the Ghimlyt Dark is my favourite dungeon in all the game. It's capable of true greatness.
@iantaakalla8180
7 күн бұрын
I suppose the fun of the Azim Steppe is that it really is the last step you need to liberate Doma to liberate Gyr Abania, and a story is happening in the Steppe as well, so people generally regard the Azim Steppe as its own thing and not as yet another thing that needs to be done, even if within the Azim Steppe is You need Hien back to restart the liberation efforts To get Hien back, you need to participate within the Naadam on the Mol’s side. To even get to the point where you can participate in the Naadam, you have to undertake Bardam’s Mettle. After that, you are stolen by Magnai, so to help the Mol in the Naadam, you have to do tasks that show your respect to him. Then everything unravels. That being said, it is the purest form of learning about cultures since you learn about four cultures out of many and Azeyma the sun god is important within Endwalker.
@honeyOTU_
3 ай бұрын
i honestly love stormblood and a lot of my best memories come from playing it. the only real gripe i had was the point you made about Doma and how it should've been its own expansion. honestly yes because the build up to Ala Mhigo's liberation from ARR should have been the star of the show, Doma's story swooping in and stealing the spotlight got me feeling a lil mad. other than that though, rly good expac!!!!
@Kiyosuki
3 ай бұрын
When it comes to Gaius, I think him being an almost "different" character made sense. The way I saw it is that his defeat in ARR heavily humbled him and he was self-aware enough to realize that it was a good thing, hence why he doesn't seem to harbor any sort of vengeful sentiment towards the WoL. Rather, his anger is both at the Ascians and himself for allowing them to aggrandize his pride and ego to the extents they were at in ARR and before. I think he does believe in his people, honor, and in principles like the determinism of mortal beings and does genuinely seem to respect other peoples especially compared to most Garlean elite but was influenced by both common Garlean propaganda and Ascian manipulation (though, ironically whats the difference?), resulting in his more bombastically expansionist personality in ARR. He legitimately believed in the Garlean MO. Afterwards though, when he was defeated and nearly killed, and his legion scattered to the wind, he was forced to have to see things through a non-garlean perspective especially with the other Shadowhunter members, and I think this really made him realize how much of an ignorant fool he's been, which he channels into taking revenge on every Ascian they can find (and to his credit, they do seem to legitimately kill a *lot* of the remaining lesser Ascians.) as well as confronting the damage that he's done both intentional and unintentional...which comes to a head in the Werlyt storyline in ShB, where he's forced to have to confront his former self via the footprint he left. To me at least, there are bits of the same character there but simply tempered by a regretful humility.
@BobbyHopp
3 ай бұрын
Ive been playing FF14 since 2016 from around 2.3/4 patch and honestly Stormblood was the first time story wise that 14 felt like Final Fantasy to me, as a long time fan, both story and gameplay wise. ARR/HW felt like very generic western fantasy, and while a bit badly paced Stormblood brought alot of color and life to the game that made feel like yeah this is a FF game. (I still do like HW but mainly for its characters than actual story). I also think newer players dont feel how big the gameplay changes were in StB as well, StB was the first time the game actually made all classes viable to a degree instead of "oh youre bring paladin to this raid focused on magic you are actually griefing".
@xuto2693
3 ай бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed SB for it's story, and it makes few missteps IMO. It truly did feel like two whole stories combined into one. I appreciate it more as it's the most and closest we ever get to challenging garlemald directly. And it was a fantastic exploration into some grim themes. I find it ironic that neither of the two leaders we took down really give a single shit about the war or garlemald itself. Although I disagree with gosetau and yotsuyu surviving. Finally, I'm glad I'm not the only one who did not like that random ass fight with the wolves at the very end. It was such a jarring pace killer and had no purpose.
@GiantEnemyMudcrabz
3 ай бұрын
Man I can't believe you thought Raubaun EX was disappointing. That fight was so difficult it took me the entire early access to get through it.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I wasn't around for it, but I've heard the tales 😛
@Tolly7249
3 ай бұрын
Stormblood is definitely the expansion with the highest highs (outside ShB) and lowest lows. It's sad, because the good bits, like Namai and the Azim Steppe and the Peace Negotiations in the patches, are really *really* good. But a lot of Ala Mhigo leaves me completely cold and generally I feel like the expansion was a bit too all over the place to be truly fantastic. My god the fight designs, though! Stormblood is absolutely the highest point of the battle side of the game. Every primal, every boss, does something new and fun. Even the dungeon bosses have you staying on your toes not through overwhelming force (like my biggest issue with a lot of EW patch content is that everything is hard because console/controller play being pretty much impossible to do outside of legacy view adding an extra layer of difficulty on top of already endgame levels of hard) but through mechanics that require you to be able to puzzle out, counter, and take advantage of every single move available to you and your opponents. I hope Dawntrail's fights lean more towards that kind of design. EDIT: The thing about Gosetsu shaving his head was an old Samurai tradition. If an older samurai decided to leave battle behind for religion, they would shave their head to symbolise cutting ties with their ancestry and worldly responsibilities and become a monk, often travelling on pilgrimages to various shrines near battlefields and places of crisis or disaster to offer kindness and guidance to the people there and respect to the spirits of the dead. Monks held and often still hold a much more important and unique position in Japanese society.
@jank0pf
22 күн бұрын
Aulus mal quite literally translates to Evil Scholar, love the sillyness on some garlean names
@lauranichols5549
Ай бұрын
I hate, hate, HATE the instances where we have to play as someone other than ourselves and only one other person in my FC enjoys it, so it always surprises me when someone says that's something especially good in an expansion.
@DynaChris
Ай бұрын
Honestly I find it refreshing to play from another perspective. I definitely think those instances could be better, though - having access to more skills would be a good start, and the one in Dawntrail holds your hand more than I'd like.
@KT-up9nt
2 ай бұрын
this was my number 2 xpac behind HW
@Elipus22
3 ай бұрын
Stormblood had higher highs than Heavensward, but much lower lows, which averages out just beneath heavensward for me. Doma was wonderful, but it did feel like writers were pulling things out of their asses and making Urianger be an annoyingly vague dick who shows up only to give us the mcguffin they decided was needed rather than let us figure things out and work with our allies to come up with a solution.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
It definitely feels like they wrote themselves into a corner with the whole resonant thing, hence Urianger's random appearance. It's still kinda funny he just turns up, goes "here, take this", and leaves without explaining
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
And even worse, he actually has to be mysterious this time because otherwise Fordola would have snatched the technology out of the hands of the Warrior of Light the moment she saw it. He really is alarmingly quick to subterfuge.
@karurosu4121
3 ай бұрын
these videos have been an absolute joy to see cant wait for the shadowbringers and endwalker one. I only just started to see this one but im sure im going to enjoy it as much as the other 2
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Shadowbringers video is up tomorrow :)
@leohillmann6717
2 ай бұрын
Of all the chars introduced in Stormblood I truly feel awful whenever I get to the Gotetsu and Yotsuyu storyline She had a chance to regain her memories and be contrite about her past but that was stolen from her by her ahat brothers machinations and Gotetsu wound up losing his own way of coping with his losses.
@pyrosianheir
3 ай бұрын
I will say, it's... odd, that Lyse or Krile aren't included in those called to by the mystery. Lyse has only recently left the Scions, and Krile joined before SB. So why wouldn't they be included? Particularly Krile, since she's got a particularly telepathic version of the Echo. It would make perfect sense for her to hear the voice, perhaps first, and provide the first inkling of what was about to happen to the Scions.
@Gunthersby
3 ай бұрын
I played through Stormblood with an alt well after my main, skipping dialogue and scenes but doing all the quests and picking up content. Later on after a short break I couldn't comprehend being in Shadowbringers because I forgot the entire time spent on Stormblood. Some of these zones are too big and empty or annoying to traverse; other expansions have this too where there's a lot of scenery and travel time with nothing going on, but none more than the Ruby Sea, where the ocean floor is almost exclusively featureless with nothing to do
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I REALLY wish they did more with the underwater sections. Underwater combat would've been nice, or at least some sort of danger to avoid. It might as well just exist for spear fishing now
@Synthpopper
3 ай бұрын
Call me a softy but I fucking love what they did with Gaius. It was one of the only earned "ressurections" imho and his character progressin made sense, especially with the context of the weapons storyline.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I loved Sorrow of Werlyt! Genuinely thought it should've been part of the MSQ, it was *that* good.
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
Furthermore, Gaius was prime for a recontextualization. Rhitahtyn and his summation of the state of Eorzea meant that he knew how to be a unifying ruler, but his issue is that he believed it had to done under Garlean rules. Of course such a weirdly principled ruler would realize he has been fighting from the wrong side when he got the chance to see what Garlean rule actually does and also finds the real threats to the kingdom.
@jesserebelo3583
3 ай бұрын
Varus during the peace talks "DING DONG ALL YOUR OPINIONS ARE WRONG"
@jereboy2005
3 ай бұрын
I actually enjoyed the story of Stormblood quite a bit. It was fun being a part of the rebellion and it was paced quite well. But I despise when stories fake out death characters. And this expansion was the worst of all of them with that. Which is the main reason I rank it as my least favorite of ffxiv stories. Apparently the jobs and Endgame content was really fun when this was current content. Wonder what it was like. Anyways another great summary down. My favorite one to relive coming up next!
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Shadowbringers was pretty bad for the fakeouts, too. I worry that it'll create a "boy who cried wolf" sort of situation where if a major character like one of the Scions actually dies, players will expect them to be just fine sooner or later.
@jereboy2005
3 ай бұрын
@@DynaChris oh yea. I'm pretty sure they've done fakeouts in every expansion, maybe not ARR can't recall off the top of my head. But Stormblood was the worst of it for me. Even though I find it the weakest, I still at least enjoyed the story of stormblood overall thankfully.
@tchristensen81
Ай бұрын
I totally agree, Stormblood was great, overall.
@delunk5906
3 ай бұрын
I loved Stormblood. I don’t understand why it’s so underrated.
@sonoskay
3 ай бұрын
I can't speak for everyone, but for me, it was playing through the same plot beat 3 times before it actually got to somthing interesting. By the third time we did the whole " encourage a downtrodden peolle to fight back against the established power." I wanted it to move the heck on. And I get that they wanted to elaborate on the struggles and traumas of 3 separate peoples, experiencing 3 different types of occupation, but they desperately needed to change the pacing of them. They really shouldn't have done them back, to back, to back. Also lyse going from generic adventurerer to niave 10 year old, was a bit too large of a swing for me.
@Ace4573
3 ай бұрын
Same it's my favorite expansion
@reyjusuf
3 ай бұрын
I like Stormblood more than Shadowbringers
@TheIvoryDingo
3 ай бұрын
After I recently played through both Heavensward and Stormblood on new game plus, I came to an opinion that may not be the most popular: I think base Heavensward's pacing is lesser than that of base Stormblood. Sure, you leave the Ala Mhigo side to go to Othard for a big chunk of the expansion after only a level's worth of quests, but the pacing of the MSQ never felt particularly bad with each individual zone getting a relatively equal amount of focus in regards to quests. Meanwhile, in Heavensward you spend a total of 11 quests between the Aery and the Vault JUST IN ISHGARD while the Hinterlands gets a grand total of 6 quests from the point of unlocking the zone to when you obtain the MSQ aether current. And that is just one example.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
That's exactly what I brought up in my Heavensward video. The Hinterlands and Azys Lla felt SO rushed in terms of the MSQ. Azys Lla was the biggest zone but felt like it had the least to do in it :(
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
I think the reason why Azys Lla’s rushing did not matter to most is this. Before this, the Warrior of Light retrieved the key to Azys Lla stuck in Bismarck’s belly. Predictably, Lahabrea and Thordan were on your tail, steal the key, and make for Azys Lla. The king is looking for the power to really make himself a primal, and you feel the urgency to chase Thordan down, and that requires getting a thing that pierces through aetheric shields. When you pierce through it, the Empire was waiting for you and therefore Ysayle had to sacrifice herself. There are two enemy factions looking to use what is locked up in Azys Lla to do stuff. Therefore, you are rushing to get to The Aetherochemical Research Facility. The rushing makes narrative sense, but after that you are left with a place which does not even have an aetheryte near the two places you actually go to, The Fractal Continuum and the The Aetheriochemical Research Facility.
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
Furthermore, they basically confirm that the Warrior of Light rushed because the Dragonsong’s Reprise says that if the WoL did not Thordan could become the primal Dragonking Thordan because he had enough time to get the power of the Warring Triad and Hraesvelgr’s eyes in addition to Lahabrea and Nidhogg’s eyes. But as a result, everything you want to do is on the ship and nothing else and you get the feeling Azys Lla could have just been the ship in the center. Therefore, unlocking The Fractal Continuum (Hard) and unlocking The Warring Triad and doing the Anima weapons become very tedious because there is always three minutes of flying from place to place, and while it is important that we know how the Allagans did mad science as their empire waned, in the end going back to Azys Lla is not fun.
@iantaakalla8180
2 ай бұрын
There is no excuse for the Hinterlands, however. They should have taken their sweet time exploring every place, because even the aetherytes confirm you are only in the Hinterland to go to Idyllshire and anything related to Idyllshire, and maybe FATEs and exploration and maybe Alexander raids. And while the Hinterlands had Old Sharlayan which is abandoned, at the end of the day you don’t want to hang out in the Hinterlands. Compared to something like the Azim Steppe, which is fun to grind on (and I would know for I ground FATEs for the Yokai Watch event) because it is that big because a lot of tribes live there and they could not have made it any larger, the Azim Steppe spreads things out better. There is reason to go to Reunion, but you can also go to the two towns and the Dawn Throne if you want to. I mean, there is nothing left except FATEs and Namazu tribe unlock after that point, but even the FATEs seem fun to go to for some reason and I feel that part of it is that you want to hang out in the Azim Steppe sometimes to get even more familiar with it. Maybe it is that the Azim Steppe is Mongolia-inspired as opposed to generic abandoned area in a valley.
@ruthnovena40
3 ай бұрын
I loved SB when it came out. liked your retrospective saw some things I had not taken into consideration,the like Zeno's Helm for instance . this was enjoyable.
@OldManDoom
2 ай бұрын
Stormblood is the second best expat after Heavensward. I pay no attention to anyone who whines or complains about Stormblood, as most of those people consider Shadowbringers as their favorite and best expansion. So these people want the throw away expansion set in a meaningless world that we had never seen before and would never see again, where we are expected to care about these people immediately and enough to risk our life to save them. The piss yellow skybox everywhere, gross purple trees and underwhelming surprise of G’raha Tia as the exarch. I have played the game before, I know that is G’raha Tia. And don’t get me started on Feo Ul. I don’t hate another single character more than Feo Ul. There isn’t a single villain or arc in Shadowbringers that is as touching or meaningful as what occurred with Gosetsu and Yotsuyu. Stromblood has always been my 1b is Heavensward is 1a. I am so glad that there is this video out now to talk about how great this expansion is
@Zephhi
3 ай бұрын
People only look at the story (which is actually good, especially post patch) and don't look at the peak content lol
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
If I had the time to go over everything (I wanted to get these videos out before Dawntrail so only focused on MSQ stuff), I'd probably add another hour (or more) onto this video for the raids, trials, and Eureka 😂
@jap7373
3 ай бұрын
SB has been one of my favorite expansions, and Lyse def doesn't deserve all the hate she gets from some of the fanbase. Great video!
@indrickboreale5463
2 ай бұрын
Doma carried and I simp for Yurigiri
@Tyrth_Thegamer
3 ай бұрын
The only thing i find funny they basically abandone the war in ala mihgo. To basically free an entirely new nation.
@the_dark_soul_of_man
3 ай бұрын
I will be honest, Lyse is not my fav character. Here is a people, two actually, who have been under oppression for 20+ years, being beaten down and broken repeatedly, and she just comes in saying, "Why don't you just, like, rise up? EZ right?". And this is just one of my gripes. I preferred Yda.
@pyrosianheir
3 ай бұрын
Would you want a primal behind your lines, able to come out and wreck your forces at any time? Because thats nooooot a side-track. Anyways, I didn't start getting into 14 until the last year or so when a youtuber I follow started a full story playthrough from ARR, so I didn't really know that SB was poorly thought of. For my experience, it was pretty fun! Trials were fun, dungeons were fun, and the alliance raid series was fun. I'll have barely started ShB when your video on it drops (only really getting to play on weekends), and the playthrough I'm following has only just finished defending Lakeland, so I look forward to the juicy spoilers on it.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Don't spoil it for yourself :) Videos will always be here for later!
@LetanYT
3 ай бұрын
youre pumping these videos out! good work as always
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I try! Endwalker vid might come down to the wire but I'll get it done in time for Dawntrail!
@IaconDawnshire
3 ай бұрын
Storm blood felt like it focused too much on Doma and not enough in Ala Mhigo. The Ala Mhigo dungeon felt like an insult since my character is from Ala Mhigo and I wanted to explore his home nation and get a house there.
@ernesielta
3 ай бұрын
33:33 Amazing chest ahead ;)
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
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@gooman2
3 ай бұрын
I watched your last 2 out of order, had JUST finished the ARR one, and go to check your page to find out you served this peak an hour ago??? good bye, sunday
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I'm so sorry for making Monday come quicker for you 😂
@NabsterHax
3 ай бұрын
I don't think Stormblood is underrated. Personally, I think the issue is that the base expansion (4.0) is quite lacklustre. There are many valid complaints about the story's pacing and character development. The patch content, however, is very good, as are the trials and raid. But this almost has the effect of making 4.0 feel even worse by comparison, especially as the immediately preceding 3.x patch content was fantastic as well. I think your opinion on StB is going to depend on whether you think about it in terms of the whole expansion, OR the *story arc.* In my head, when someone says "Stormblood" I'm thinking of the 4.0 story arc, and it elicits similar feelings as 2.0 (though I think it's still better than 2.0): It's fine, and without it we couldn't have the really good stories and characters that originate from it - but by itself it's a bit "meh." I think the main issue is that both 2.0 and 4.0 can be summed up to a rather predictable "underdogs fighting the big bad empire" plotline. There's no big twist, no moral dilemma, and not enough emotional weight behind the victory. Furthermore, I think the reason "Stormblood" makes me think of 4.0 alone is because it presents itself as a full arc. The big bad is defeated, and Ala Mhigo is free. Unlike the 3.x and 5.x patches which have their quite definitive end in x.3 with the final defeat of Nidhogg and exit of the scions from the First. Yes, Yotsuyu goes down in 4.3 but this already feels like a totally different arc and with Alphi leaving with the Garleans it all sort of blends into the run-up to ShB which itself feels like its more part of a ShB arc than Stormblood.
@odiechan
3 ай бұрын
While I liked Stormblood my issue was more or less with the pacing. Just as things ramp up in Gyr Abania, we head off to the East and it takes the momentum built back down to 0. I feel like the story was good but could’ve done with perhaps some restructuring so that it doesn’t feel so stilted when switching from Gyr Abania to the East.
@JinTekyta
3 ай бұрын
I admit, I'd always been in the minority camp that enjoyed Stormblood as much as Heavensward, and perhaps even more for different reasons. And I never appreciated the disrespect that often gets thrown its way.
@Kirby-Mania
3 ай бұрын
There’s a lot of ways I would describe base Stormblood’s story. “Damn near perfect” is absolutely not one of them
@leonfurry
3 ай бұрын
“This is our first solo instance and i gotta say it’s pretty underwhelming.” 2017 flashback horrors 🫨😰
@nithussiva2922
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for this!!! Hope SHB and EW follow soon
@TheGlamourNazi
3 ай бұрын
Lag? In the early Stormblood instances? Buddy, I don't know if you played on release, but that was NOTHING compared to what we had to go through.... Literal lines being formed to make a makeshift queue just to start Raubahn Savage....
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Yeah I've heard the stories! Can't wait to go through a similar struggle in a few weeks, as seems to be tradition 🙃
@WhyrenGP
3 ай бұрын
i didn't like stormblood, however the stuff right after stormblood, such as the omega raid, the msq and crossover trials before shb are great.
@EloquentTroll
2 ай бұрын
I liked Stormblood (just finished it yesterday), but I still liked Heavensward more
@meatybtz
3 ай бұрын
Stormblood was good, but it had the problems of a story told over too big a space, as well as being two separate story lines run in parallel.
@thompson6223
3 ай бұрын
I’m probably in the minority, but I enjoyed storm blood more than heaven‘s ward
@PatrickOchoa8a
3 ай бұрын
48:40 I'm a bit bummed they changed that mechanic. It makes sense why, but seeing the charm stripped away from the older dungeons just upsets the hipster in me that remembers the old days.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Yeah! I was really disappointed going back though it for the video. I saw the bridges and thought, "I could've sworn we turned into ghosts or something before". It's really weird cos the duty support NPCs *can* handle other transformation mechanics...
@truesoprano2152
3 ай бұрын
For me, Stormblood was a huge dissappointment after the masterpiece that was Heavensward, but over time I've come to appreciate it more. I still really didn't like the Far East section since it just felt like a detour from the main plot and I absolutely can't stand Hien as a character, and they didn't focus on Ala Mhigo nearly as much as they should have, but I think its high points are better than anything in future expansions. The ending section of 4.0 in the Lochs, 4.1 and 4.5 are some of the best story moments IMO. I think one of the most jarring issues is going from the morally grey Dragonsong War (where there are villains on both sides and even the heroes mess up) to the mostly black-and-white conflict of the Empire vs Ala Mhigo and Doma. They have vague mentions of Theodoric and his tyrannical rule of Ala Mhigo before the Empire took over, and how life wasn't perfect back then, but it's glossed over, and Doma is always presented as being 100% right all the time and IMO that's just not as interesting of a story. Here's my hot take: I REALLY don't like the direction the story took after SB. I didn't like Shadowbringers and I HATED Endwalker. I feel like they just got rid of all political intrigue and worldbuilding in favor of a more shonen anime influenced plot and a bunch of characters with contrived tragic backstories, and it went against everything that made me fall in love with the game in the first place. But in the end it helped me appreciate the best parts of Stormblood more.
@canariawing
3 ай бұрын
i'm glad you and others enjoyed it so much, but for me it was an unbearable slog to get through and lead to the introduction of the most uninteresting villain in all of FFXIV that persisted in the story way longer than he had any business to. i don't think i would have liked it even if i had no expectations going in. it's a shame too because it had so much potential. i did thoroughly enjoy the raid and trial questlines though, they were definitely the highlight of 4.x for me.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
Oh I'm definitely of the opinion that Zenos outstayed his welcome, and that virtually everything he does after base Stormblood could've been done by ANYONE ELSE 🤣
@bannedmann4469
2 ай бұрын
I agree.
@larskoenig6021
3 ай бұрын
literally agree with everything you said, except for zenos. for me he never felt like a threat, he was annoying, he babbles always the same lines over and over and it ws never explained why he´s that powerful (before the experiment) *spoiler* and as epic the ew final battle was, the most satisfying part for me was to punch the living crap out of him with bare hands (as rdm) with yoshi-p´s confirmation he is dead for good.
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
At first, there's some intrigue to him, but pretty much after base Stormblood, I found myself caring less and less about him. By Endwalker I was fed up of him and found him completely irrelevant to the story lol
@larskoenig6021
3 ай бұрын
@@DynaChris at first i was like, oh ok the og-op-swordsman arrives, hmmm maybe he gets interesting. and later i was just bah another boring blabla prey blabla hunt blabla. in shb we get ranjit and we didnt get much information about him and he was the same kind of stereotype , but he was a far better written villain, who even got some never explained depth with his last words.
@larskoenig6021
3 ай бұрын
@@fredy2041 so tell me something interesting about him, something other than beeing an edgelord with only two lines he repeat through every expansion he´s in. there is literally no character, no emotions, no development. alisaie got it on point when she folds him verbal into a origami crane. he´s just a pity.
@larskoenig6021
3 ай бұрын
@@fredy2041 wouldve asked the same question. Selective sight is a mighty tool.
@iantaakalla8180
7 күн бұрын
The funny thing is his irrelevance is the point - he is supposed to be the insistent gnat who wants a good battle with the Warrior of Light but because he is only focused on that he basically kicked himself out of being interesting or being cared about in-universe as well. All of Garlemald disowns him and he is exiled, every other places knows not to mess with him, Fandaniel only used him so that he could get Zodiark to be killed, and the Scions know his limits and Alisaie literally has to tell him to try another tack if he wants his universe-destroying showdown with the Warrior of Light. I suppose it worked too well. At least as a person literally tied to the Ascians, he is dead by the end of base Endwalker.
@NotExplicable
3 ай бұрын
I don't think Stormblood is underrated it just gets buried in content updates.
@torkhi6349
3 ай бұрын
I think that its rated around where it needs to be. From some very abrasive main story characters to the content being poorly split between two distinct areas of the world
@Jp808
2 ай бұрын
Everything after doma made the whole experience just meh. Seriously had forgotten how poorly paced the third act is with the random primal side quest
@thehurricane6767
3 ай бұрын
I liked the Doman storyline and absolutely hated the Ala mhigan section. Ugh
@Ziggy8750
2 ай бұрын
Heavensword was great unless you were there, patch to patch. Sucked so bad for soooo long, love the raids tho
@Ziggy8750
2 ай бұрын
Until DT, SB is my fav and my toon is old af
@ryes5
3 ай бұрын
Stormblood was absolutely better than Heavensward. I don't even understand how this is a controversial statement.
@GilgaMax305
3 ай бұрын
Eh, to each their own. But Stormblood dragged a bit. On the plus side, I thought Post Game Stormblood was better.
@Zoeila
3 ай бұрын
another person who wasnt here during the hype cycle that thinks stormblood is underrated... i'll never forgive them for letting us think stormblood would be an ala mhigan's and ala mhigo focused expansion for 6 months only to pull a bait nd switch and sweep them under the rug
@DynaChris
3 ай бұрын
I actually saw a lot of the hate it got for that. It sucks they didn't give us a full Ala Mhigo expansion, but that doesn't mean what we got is bad. I make a point of how Ala Mhigo and the Far East could've been split into two expansions during the video, too!
@iantaakalla8180
3 ай бұрын
It was basically two expansions given how separate the Doman campaign was from the Ala Mhigan campaign. This also has the weird side effect that for some reason Lord Hien is the reason the Doman Liberation effort is the push needed, and that is now, in hindsight, noticeably clunky.
@IIXairII
3 ай бұрын
Same. I really wanted a freedom fighting revolution for Ala Mhigo. What we got for the Doman liberation wasn't bad, just not what players were expecting. I agree that this expansion should have been 2 different expansions. What we got for post content, most notably Gymlit Dark, felt like THAT was what the expansion should have been
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