My review of the Final Fantasy XIV Online’s first expansion, Heavensward.
Finally.
00:00 – Introduction
01:16 – Aether Currents
03:32 – Jumping Around
04:17 – Level of Difficulty
05:59 – Storytelling
09:09 – SPOILERS
12:30 – Summary
13:18 – Outro
14:48 – Special Message From Me
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The Best Expansion I've Ever Played..(to this date) period.
I can’t wait to get there
Because of your stream, I'm leveling yet another character just so I can play through the MSQ again.
HW was good. i liked SB better also liked the quick history lesson very nice
I have just finished stormblood and all I can say is OMG 😀 but heavensward is still my fav at mo.
2:35 most of them I just spammed the hell out of the compass. I must say, I did Google one. Not in HW, but in ShB. One that I saw, but couldn't figure out how to get it.
The sightseeing log is another example of scoping out the areas, with small tidbits of information and lore. Really good for gpose moments
4:34 I think it's less "up the difficulty" and more "power creep" happened. Because, yes, we are playing ARR zones, instances, bosses. But even in low level, we are playing the game with Shadowbringers balances. Back then there was a TP bar, you had to level a class to 30 and a secondary class to 15 to be eligible to start job quests (black mage required thauma 30 and archer 15). And certain abilities were locked behind a certain class. If you wanted to play Warrior with provoke, you needed to level paladin to lvl 27 to unlock it and use it as a cross – class ability (that got replaced with Role actions). Black mage was the only one with swift cast, so if you wanted it on healers, you had to level BLM to unlock and use it as cross – class.
13:00 I'm one of those that thinks ShB is the best one, yes (the pre-ShB patches are incredible). But I've encountered many that still prefer Heavensward, even tho they thoroughly enjoyed ShB.
Saying that to temper some of the hype, because nothing sucks more than someone hyping something to the MOON, and then you get there and "… that's it?". But I believe you will enjoy it. It's awesome, it's incredible.
the story of ARR 2.4 and 2.5 and the Story of Heavensward were created during the Hype of Game of Thrones. When it came out many players recognized the smal similarities between GoT and HW in little details. New Players from now don´t see the similarties, but then, GoT was in evreyones mind. The backstory of Aymeric is partialy based on Jon Snow. The Devs sayed that some parts of the HW story and 2.4-2.5 story were based on GoT.
Big ups for transitioning
I would like to play with you🌹
! warning! maybe ~slightly spoil comment! LUVD Heavensward, Stormblood was not as engaging at first— it was after playing stormblood a 2nd time on newgame+ that it grew on me immensely but it did sit as a bit of a blur between heavensward and shadowbringers until then. My recomendation for stormblood is to try to slowly process the info at the start if you are lore nerds as its a bit more difficult to follow , atleast it was for me. I remember restarting FF12 on ps2 a bunch just because I was confused AF @ _ @ . It reminds me of several martial arts movies a bit both in terms of settings and story elements which does stand out from the rest of the game, I remember rewatching movies like Hero, crouching tiger hidden dragon, curse of the golden flower over and over again to fully grasp everything that happened but always worth. Glad U are enjoying the game so far ^_^
edit: I am also a history nerd and sometimes what I think a specific reference is, often with a bit of thought can be applied to many many real world events. It reminds me that history repeats itself and I do think the team at final fantasy 14 are very smart and I think they are very careful with their dialogue they choose to use to create this effect.
Heavensward and Shadowbringers are both emotional roller coasters. That's about all I will say, and they're both very immersive. Strap in and enjoy the ride.
Lips are sealed. Shadowbringers is just as good as heavensward
Story: ShB>HW>SB>ARR, Dungeons and side content: ShB>SB>HW>ARR
Great video. I really love the touch on the world history and the similarity between Heavensward. Yoshi P is kind of a historian among the Final Fantasy directors. He prefers more of traditional and high fantasy than techno and cyberpunk fantasy. Personally, I like both Heavensward and Shadowbringer. When I am asked which I like, It's difficult to say because I love those expansions in different ways. If anything, I would compare Heavensward to be a shot to the heart with an arrow while Shadowbringer is shots to the heart with a machinegun.