In this episode of my massive Let’s Play Gameplay Playthrough of Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood, our first Stormblood primal fight is against the Kojin kami, Susano!
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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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Err….might want to fix that episode description. Fairly certain Ravana is not worshipped by the Kojin.
Now, Susano is one of the big names in terms of Japanese gods. Gods of Storms (which tracks given his introduction) and 1 of the last children of the male creator god Izanagi. And yes, I said god. His birth is kind of…weird. Basically after Izanagi failed to retrieve his dead female creator god wife from the underworld of Yomi (she died after giving birth to the god of fire, rather morbidly) to cleanse the impurities in his body. After washing his left eye in a river, the goddess of the sun Amaterasu was born, from the right eye came the god of the moon Tsukiyomi and from the nose came Susano. Yes, he was born from a god blowing his nose. Susano was kind of the reckless delinquent of his siblings, engaging in rampant revelry (again, that tracks) constantly getting into fights and breaking their things. (Understatement. Over the perceived slight of losing a contest to his Sister Amaterasu he in turn: destroyed her rice fields, defecated in her palace, flayed one of her horses alive and threw at her weaving loom which killed one of her handmaidens) It got him exiled from heaven and led to him maturing while on his travels. After killing a 8 headed serpent monster called the Yamata no Orochi and retrieving a sword from its tail, he gave this to his sister Amaterasu as an apology which she accepted. This sword came to be known as the Kusanagi no Tsurugi, one of the 3 royal Japanese treasures that are represented in game to have summoned him, which is really cool. But it gets even better. The original name for the sword was Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi (Heavenly Sword of Gathering Storm Clouds), which is the long version of Susano’s Ultimate attack in game. They really put effort into representing their gods properly in this expansion.