Highlights from the Let’s Play livestream of Final Fantasy 14: Heavensward. The goal is to reach Stormblood, and finish Shadowbringers in time for Endwalker.
00:00 – Splash
00:11 – Start
48:28 – Patch 3.2 Final Scene
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Ishikawa is ours in FF14, get your own! :p
All kidding aside, I truly love watching your video. Your indepth insight on story and lore opened so much new things for me that I missed going thru the first time. Because of FF14, I have so much hope for the FF16. I do wish that FF fans who have taken back on the series will see that there's hope for the franchise.
You not going to like shadowbringers.
Well, I mean, YoshiP already said that he want the English VA do perfect, especially on Clive "psychology", oof, I should steel my heart on whatever that maybe.
I really don't believe Ishikawa would be working on FF16 sadly. She's super busy with Endwalker but hopefully she gets to be the main writer for FF17 or FF18. Then we'll get to actually see her full capabilities but that'll be another 10 years off at minimum. Till then you got Shadowbringers.
In regards more to the Minfilia thing at the end of 2.55 and why I think it's the worst piece of writing in this game. I can go into a very very long rant about Minfilia; her as a character, the community's perception of her, Echo users in general, her and Thancred's relationship etc… cause like I said she was my favorite character until this point but I'm gonna limit it solo to the end of 2.55.
Now all throughout the post ARR patch you can see the writers trying to develop 2 specific characters, Minfilia and Alphinaud. Minfilia with the Echo sharing and her actually being on the field during Leviathan quests. Alphinaud with the Crystal Braves and the Coils of Bahamut. This tells me that they were still deciding on who will be your companion in Heavensward and all throughout 2.4 and 2.5 it seemed like it was gonna be Minfilia (she was literally running out with you) but then at the very last minute they made Minfilia run into the Flow and kill herself while Alphinaud randomly gets rescued by Pipin. Now again to me, my opinion, it looks like a last split second decision to cut Minfilia out and use Alphinaud instead. It's even its own specific cutscene, you can find it in the Inn Room > Unending Journey > 7th Astral Era > Parting Glass > Cutscene #17. Which tells me it was worked separately and is easily interchangeable.
Now I know I'm crying over spilt milk but I'm serious when I say this decision causes so many problems down the line to the point where the writers have to create band aid fixes to fill the glaring hole Minfilia filled. I can't even talk about it now because it is spoilers obviously. It's a problem even up to now in 5.55 when they introduced a new character and I can guarantee it will still be an issue in Endwalker as well. And that is why Minfilia randomly running off and killing herself is the worst piece of writing in FFXIV.
At least her death developed Thancred and I will come back to explain why I feel the "You don't know me…" was so well done after you finish the lvl 70 Dark Knight quest.