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Some more thoughts on post-Stormblood and Stormblood itself:

First, the music. The music of Stormblood is generally real good, and it took a certain lesson from Heavensward. One of the cool things about Heavensward's music is the way it uses its themes in other tracks. The four different variations of Ishgard's music that play in the city are great, and the variations on it elsewhere are good too. Unfortunately, they use the themes from Stormblood EVERYWHERE. The sameyness of the music gets kinda tiresome, no matter how good it is. I was generally more excited to hear the more different tracks, like Lakshmi's music.

4.3 was an improvement over 4.2 overall, particularly near the end where they started focusing on new stuff. Alphinaud going to the Empire is great. 4.4 was generally cool too (hell yeah Xaela). The first 3/4 of 4.3 still weren't great though. Like, what is the point of Asahi? I assumed at first the goal was to be like, "not all imperials are bad" but then he's bad anyway (which was pretty unsurprising). Yotsuyu's return was lame too. I mean, they kind of did the same thing with Nidhogg in the post-Heavensward stuff, but his return was epic and exciting and resulted in one of the coolest battles in the game. Yotsuyu's return... did not. At least the scene where she killed Asahi was cool. Also, blah at bringing Zenos back, even if it's a fake.

I feel like the post-Stormblood patches have been less climactic in general. They feel more setup-y, moving around pieces. Post-ARR and post-HW had some of that too, but they also had exciting and complete storylines of their own. Warriors of Darkness was entirely post-HW and was fantastic! Don't just do setup - give us some exciting climaxes too!

Random comment: Estinien's appearances in Stormblood were amazing, short as they were.

Return to Ivalice Raids: the raids themselves were very good. I liked exploring the ancient cities a lot, and the bosses were cool, especially Agrias and Cid near the end. Definitely among the coolest battles in the game. I didn't think the framing device was good at all though. Present Ramza/Alma/Dad/Theater company all sucked. I didn't like any of them, and though there motivations were lame. The Dalmasca stuff was more of a highlight, and having Fran appear was a lot of fun at least. Too bad they couldn't have figured out a way to focus more on the good stuff here.

Four Lords quests were fairly neat too. Was surprised how long they were. Suzaku was insanely difficult for some reason - hardest boss I've fought other than the Extreme ones. None of the others were particularly hard. Soroban was a total bro. Lots of good/funny moments for him here (also Tataru). Nifty side content, though it probably could've been a bit shorter.
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