Today we’re taking a look at Zepla’s thoughts on Endwalker, it took me a while, because I wanted to make my own video before seeing anyone else’s.
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I spent the last week leveling alt classes. So far i have everything at 35 or higher, and my main is 70 and I just hit stormblood. I'm rather excited to hit the rest of the story once I get everything to 50 at least.
I watched Zeplas Stream cause i was already done with the MSQ and she cried literally the whole time from the 4th Zone onwards. My Eyes already get wet when i just think of the Last zone specially the last Part before the Dungeon was just Amazing.
Taking about the balance of suffering and joy. I’m going to steal a line from Riot Arcane:
H: “why this design, couldn’t you have made it safer”
E: “you can’t just give people what they need to survive, you have to give them what they need to LIVE!”
This stands true here as well and holy shit yah thank you SE for tackling the meaning of freaking life in this story! Shit, I just….thank you, sincerely an emotionally wrecked man
This video just made me cancel my FF sub thank you for informing me the story ends before im even able to log in yet.
The comparison for emotional investment i have been giving is Endgame. Endgame is cool and u can get emotional over parts if you haven’t watched the other marvel movies. But the small touches coming together and all the payoffs that’s what really gets you. And you NEED to have watched the previous movies to have that.
EW is so effective in hitting you in the feels because of Shadowbringers, and Heavensward. Because the relationships were built over the years through those expacs, and even Stormblood.
ShB is definitely not child’s play but it feels like the emotional effects of EW are more long lasting and powerful, at least for me. 5.3 felt to me as a set of very touching goodbyes bu 6.0 broke me completely.
Not even 2 minutes in and I got to say. I'm about to start that last Zone after work. I may need some comfort alcohol, lol
A lot of players don't like Endwalker. It has mixed reviews. It has some good bits but fails in a bunch of others. The first 45% fails to setup the story. Not just that but also very convoluted. I had a friend that knows the game very well ask me a bunch of questions not understanding wtf is happening and why. I'm a bit of a writer and I get sorta get what caused for the bad writing. It basically had no meaningful villian to drive the plot. For the players that have already cleared know theres a new villian SE pulled out of there ass in the last 3 levels of the expansion and using time travel to fit it in. They clearly needed the story to rewrote a few more times.
If expansion would of been more successful if they did + some issues,
5.3-5.55 pre patches were more successfully setup the story leading into Endwalker.
Zeno's as WoL killed one of the Scions.
Zeno's given more meaningful screentime to his character.
Varis /Anima was better developed.
Zodiark/Hydalyn was better shown in a cutscene. (They fight and that was never shown.)
Better end credit scene.
Dungeon boss mechanics were new & mechanic speed increased a bit. (To much reused mechanics & to slow.)
Reducing cutscene & fetch quest bloat.
Fandaniel was better developed as a character.
If the girl villian had been foreshadowed way in advanced in the story.
Garlmand doesn't feel scfi/high tech enough. It feels very modern. Apartment buildings etc.
How they wrote Emet Selch in Endwalker goes againist his character in Shadowbringers. He should of been left out. (SE basically turning all their villians into good guys which seems to be a bad story treat now for them in xiv.)
If Vrtra the wyvern was never shown in the cgi trailer and was only shown ingame.
Better endgame tome dungeons.
Better Sightseeing platforming & more of it.
Bozjia's exp being capped at lv80.
If Grand Company Coffers didn't break the reward value of past rewards. minions are now completely worthless.
Super Echo buff is about 18% more powerful then it should be right now.
Damage scaling seems to be off in some ARR content.
If they had more servers to handle que times.
Sage is too complex to play & has a bit of action bloat.
Dark Knight seems isn't on par with the other tanks this expansion.
Bard has become harder to play based on my personal experience.
World design seems lazy in some places where it just looks like copy pasted assets. (Doesn't compare to ARR zone design)
Pros,
The moon bunnies.
The final villian is sorta interesting but also very random. Final boss design is very good.
The moon.
The FF4 references/nods.
The music.
You can make money just farming bicolor gems now.
Reaper is fun to play.
Expansion doesn't have many bugs in it other then the DoL quest bugs.
You ever been face punched by a culmination of ARR-EW MSQ?
Yeah, me too.
ShB wrecked me but EW tbh did not at all. The ending felt very rushed and had close to no impact for me. I mean sure the meaning of life and stuff but it was all a little contrived don't you think?
The answer is obvious from the start isn't it? Life has meaning in itself. You are alive, that's meaning enough right? Even from a nihilistic stand point, not living has no value to you so only while living can you make meaning out of it.
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Also the events during the last zone were all so predictable one after the other. All while we already knew we would get them all back in the end 100%. them all vanishing one by one did nothing for me cause I knew they would be all back because they told us how to do it.
The Scions still exists, so we will see them all the time I'm pretty sure. I guess we will need top see .1 MSQ but I have the feeling that nothing much will be different besides that some characters will be introduced and some will be a bit more in the background, that's it. I don't see what the huge deal there is.
I'll have to disagree on Endwalker being a recency bias thing. Like you, I'm fortunate to never be in that deep-end kind of situation, but the message that I got from Endwalker was really beautiful.
I love Shadowbringers and Heavensward. I wouldn't call the former look like child's play either, but Endwalker definitely resonated with me way more than those two ever could. The more I think of it, the better it becomes.
Funny fact: the zones names are so spoilery we do not give the last zone's name when doing hunt trains but just refer to it as 'the last zone'.
i stopped at midway(i think) through StormBlood due to IRL problems so i haven't even touched ShadowBringers and the FOMO is hurting so bad.
When you're playing it, it hits you. Outside of the game… it sounds a bit cheesy. It still was a good time.
It… It took me about 48 hours to really recover from the ending. That said… If I HAD to try to give Endwalker a score out of 10…. 100. Easy.
The bigger thing, though… It's kind of a different sort of pain. Anyone else who's done this can confirm; Playing the story of FFXIV as a healer is the worst idea. And I don't mean this JUST with Endwalker. I played ARR through to the beginning of Endwalker as a White Mage, and Endwalker itself as a Sage. All because my usual role of choice for games is the support. I'm the guy who likes to reach out that hand and help, and keep people alive. But, uh… Yeah, that's… The story of this game will punish people with that mentality. But Endwalker…. Woof…. That story…
EW was ok a good ending but Shadowbringers and heavensward to me was by miles better. That’s my personal opinion, but I got kinda board at one point.
The cutscene for "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know" is now my favorite cutscene. Not just in FFXIV, but in all of gaming.
The problem I have with this video of Zella’s is that I don’t personally consider it to be spoiler free as she basically just lays out the point of the entire expansion. Sure she doesn’t go into nitty gritty details but if you watch this before playing the story you may deprive yourself of figuring all this out for yourself which is why I’m always weary of videos like this.
my girlfriend could not play due to school and queues, so i was way ahead of her. When i reached 5th and 6th zone i forbid her to get up unless she told me upfront so i could alt tab
That is how much i tried not to spoil her. She just finished it yesterday, was worth it