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There we go, Shadowbringers complete! This was mostly real great stuff! I was feeling a bit burnt out on the game before I got here (224 hours in a bit over a month will do that to you...) but this was a return to form in every way. First, the environments: one of the things I liked about HW as opposed to StB is how it felt like I was adventuring in a whole new world no one had been before. ShB brought back that feeling but at an even greater level, since it's literally a whole new world. The atmosphere was great, the Crystarium is one of the best cities, and I basically just loved exploring everywhere. It's so colorful! I love all the purple. Even the desert areas managed to be interesting since they had cool ruins and such in them.

The main story was probably the best yet. I liked HW's story a lot too, but this one had more emotional impact at the end. The last few sections were all fantastic, and it was good early on too. There were basically two sections I thought were relatively weak: doing fetch quests for the fae felt incredibly fetch questy, and the trolley section was just bad. Both of those had good payoff at least, so I didn't mind that much in the end. Feo Ul becoming the new Titania was real good. I wasn't a big fan of Ran'jit either. He felt ridiculously powerful for no good reason, and they messed up when to kill him off IMO. Really should've had him die after the Thancred fight. That was an epic fight with a lot of emotion in it, and the final battle against him was just an ordinary battle...

Luckily, the other villains are quite good! Vauthry was effective as a new kind of villain, and I wasn't expecting all the twists with him mainly the part about him being merged with a Lightweaver as a baby. It was nice to bring the focus back to the Ascians with Emmet-Selch, and he gave us a lot of good development for them. I'm not as big a fan of him as some people seem to be - I feel like the Warriors of Darkness might've been more interesting as villains, even - but he facilitated a lot of excellent story moments, so it's all good. Amaurot rocked.

The new characters were good in general, though I think having a few less random groups/towns to visit might've been better. Crystal Exarch and Ryne were fun times. Tying the story back to earlier story content was a cool effort. As I said before, Dulia-Chai was a lot better than I'd expect from someone like her. And after switching the voices to Japanese, Feo Ul was good too (man the English pixie voices are terrible).

The music was probably a step up from StB? Sad piano song was excellent, if a little overused. Some real cool stuff like the Rak'tika Forest music.

Hope the next expansion manages to be in an interesting new area. Not sure what's left. There's the regions of Garlemald, the other 5 worlds, and the moon, that we know of. Maybe some Aetheric regions? Or some unexplored regions of Hydaelyn. I feel like Garlemald would be the least interesting in terms of fun exploration, but I guess we'll see what happens.
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