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Omega raids - these were a bit of a slow starter, and they felt like more of a gameplay-focused thing than something that was happening for a story reason for the most part. They followed a pretty different style from the Coils or Alexander, which had its negatives and benefits. The Alexander exploration sections were pretty samey, but they also had good music and atmosphere. Omega basically cuts the filler and just gives us the bosses themselves. The battles were mostly solid, particularly the last few. Phantom Train was my favorite of the others by a lot. Great atmosphere and fun mechanics. The story started out slow, but got really good by the end. The final cutscene with Alpha was fantastic and emotional in a unique way for this game. He was kinda the star of the raid series.

4.5 and 4.56 were good, albeit brief. The revelations about the Empire were neat. I dunno how enthusiastic I am about Gaius coming back from the dead. His character here is cool though.

Started Shadowbringers and it's instantly more compelling than basically anything in Stormblood. The thing that was great about Heavensward is that it basically introduced us to a whole new region that was completely different from everything we'd seen before. Shadowbringers is doing the same, but to an even greater extent. The Crystarium's a great city, too, probably my favorite design-wise. The music's not quite as good as Ishgard's, but it's still great. I get a real sense of wonder here that I didn't get much with Stormblood. Mostly good characters too. Vauthry seems like a fun villain. Not too sure about Ran'Jit though. He reminds me too much of Zenos at this point, what with the randomly being ultra strong for no apparent reason...

One thing I'm curious about: it feels like there are 14 parallel universes with all the parallel versions of the planet, but those only affect the planet itself - how does that work with the rest of the universe? Can aliens like Omega and Midgardsormr only visit the Source, or can they visit all worlds? And would it be a parallel version or the same version...?
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