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Yeah for all that Endwalker's start is super slow, the start IS the place to have slow pacing. ShB meanwhile has Il Mheg and the back half of Ahm Areng as zones that mostly don't matter (relatively speaking of course -- Magnus is super important because he manages to serve as a mirror to Thancred, Emet-Selch and the ascians in general all at the same time, super well used character), and Ran'jit stinking up the joint being a really bad knockoff Zenos. EW has no such weak spots.

Also GOD

I just ran the 90 trial in roulette again

Its back half truly just hits different. I'm sorry if this is a little personal guys, but I had to deal with such crippling depression when I was in high school I basically took an entire year off of living, really more a year and a half. I've talked to friends and helped them come down from suicidal ideations. I've seen people fall into tilt spirals, and stayed up til 5 AM just to make sure they were OK and knew what was wrong and that someone cared. To fight an enemy that is the living incarnation of depression, that screams and wails 'EVERYTHING IS WRONG! THERE IS NO MEANING! LIFE HAS NO VALUE! NO ONE SHOULD HOPE FOR BETTER!' and kick its face is always going to make me emotional, I think. It's all the sadness in the world, channeled through a little girl who's very scared to believe things can get better, and I...man...I'm so glad this game lets us Be There for someone like that. All that, and set to some of the rawest guitarwork I've ever heard. It's literally just chords, but it doesn't NEED to be anything more to carry the moment. It's perfect. Straight up perfect.

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Shine on, you crazy diamond.