RETURN TO IVALICE, PART 3 | Let's Play Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood | 52 | Walkthrough Playthrough



In this episode of my massive Let’s Play Gameplay Playthrough of Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood, Ba’Gamnan finds out the hard way that his auracite is laced with the G-Virus…

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TITLE: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood
DEVELOPER: Square Enix
PLATFORM: PC (Steam)

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood is the second expansion pack to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and PlayStation 4. It was released on June 20, 2017, just under two years after Heavensward, the previous expansion. Like for its predecessor, Naoki Yoshida served as director and producer and Masayoshi Soken composed the soundtrack, with Nobuo Uematsu contributing the theme song. The expansion pack was released as a standalone product for current players; for new players, the “Complete Edition” of Final Fantasy XIV that originally launched with Heavensward was updated to include both expansions. In order to make necessary engine improvements, service for the PlayStation 3 game client was terminated with the expansion’s early access period. A special upgrade campaign allowed affected players to obtain the PlayStation 4 version for free.

Stormblood marks a shift in the ongoing conflict with the Garlean Empire. Players lead rebellions in the imperial provinces of Ala Mhigo, an Eorzean city-state conquered twenty years ago, and Doma, a Far Eastern nation with a proud ninja tradition. These regions are administered by the emperor’s son, Zenos yae Galvus, whose brutal oppression of the conquered imperial subjects impels the player to act. Traveling these diverse lands, players join forces with the Ala Mhigan Resistance and the deposed Crown Prince of Doma. In addition to adding new areas, the expansion pack increases the level cap, adds two new character classes, revamps the battle system for existing combat classes, and introduces swimming gameplay.

Stormblood was well received upon release and earned nominations for “Expansion of the Year”. In August 2017, Square Enix announced that the title had reached a cumulative total of 10 million accounts. As with its predecessors, major content patches were scheduled for every three months. The first one—”The Legend Returns”—was released on October 10, 2017 and premieres a storyline written by Yasumi Matsuno that features his signature Ivalice setting, as well as a special “Ultimate” difficulty battle, designed to be the most challenging content in the game.

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3 thoughts on “RETURN TO IVALICE, PART 3 | Let's Play Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood | 52 | Walkthrough Playthrough”

  1. I will say that the bosses of Ivalice are a lot more chatty than what we normally expect for bosses. It’s like The Incredibles: the villains and the monologging. They’re going on some what of a tangent.

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  2. If last raid was mostly a Tactics reference, then this one was mostly 12 reference. Famfrit and Belias are Lucavi representing the Aquarius (The water Bearer) and Aries (The Ram) respectively, both of which highly appropriate in design and abilities. The funny mathematician Contruct 7 was also a boss from Tactics. However, the rest of the dungeon was from 12. Literally, the name of the dungeon, much like the last raid is a place within FF12. The squat adds on your way to Belias are from 12 and are called Brainpans. This Princess Ashelia that Ba’gamnan was grieving is clearly a reference to the Princess of Dalmasca, Ashe from 12. Next, Yiazmat as you said is rightly infamous for his utterly ludicrous health pool of 50 Million, in a game where your max damage per hit was 9999, this guy took hours to beat. But to add a touch more context, he was a superboss found in 12 at the Ribrana Cataract much like with 14. Finally, the armoured warrior that the WOL transformed into during Ba’gamnan’s hallucinations is also a big 12 reference. By which I mean he is literally on the box art, he is the recurring antagonist in 12 and his name is Gabranth. Given Ba’gamnan’s reaction though, it appears in 14, that he is an Garlean of some note. Which, if he carries any of his might as he had in 12, is VERY bad news.

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