Finally getting back to this. Playing what little I can while the queues are still awful because I REALLY want to finish before normal raids launch next week
Just beat the 77 dungeon last night. Midway through 88 stuff now. Some thoughts. BIG SPOILERS obv - Meteion 2good for this world. Perfectly engineered character. Good storytelling is when you can see all the cheap tricks the writers are doing to get you to feel a way and it still works. I KNEW something tragic would happen, didn't expect full Jokerization into a big bad but I am still sad about it. - Similarly, props to the writers for getting me to care about Venat/Hydaelyn who I pretty aggressively disliked going into Endwalker - It is unintentionally funny to me that FF14 has answered the classic "why would a loving god allow suffering to exist?" question with "she needs people to suffer to win a bet." - never going to get over the scene where you explain the plot of the entire game to the gang and they just start nitpicking the details for not making sense, culminating in Emet declaring the whole thing to be bullshit and storming out. Wonderful stuff. Also love Emet's confession at the very end that he doesn't believe you because he refuses to be a doomer. This does actually add more depth to his character even though the memory wipe stuff has to happen as a plot contrivance. - love doing this as elf and having a tallboi party in my amurot robes, also loved to see so many other players glamming the robes to commit to the bit -femboy hythlodeus
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I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig!