I'm very fresh off of storm blood, having just finished it two days ago, and it's probably because I played heavensward very impatiently from how bored I was with arr, but I actually had a better experience with storm blood overall.
"Red" Kojin are indeed red. "Blue" Kojin are green -- because the color "green" was considered a shade of blue in Japanese. I remember this being mentioned in a conversation with Hancock at one point in the game.
@@Fexghadi actually no and yes, there's Ao for Blue and Midori for green but iirc for the long time japanese didn't have the word to express green and thought it just a shade of blue
Blue = Green is common in many languages. Thats because until some time people couldnt perceive green that well and people in the old ages didnt need to, since only the some colors were important to survive in wildlife (red, yellow and so on). Perceiving green came relatively late in human history. Some tribes still cannot distinguish it very clearly and even today in modern world there are debates between 2 people whether a certain shade is green or blue. I think that is facinating. Especially that its somehow included in a game. Further reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language
@@terfio This is so false I almost lack words. You are confusing what humans are able to perceive about colours with development of language about colours. Thus you are completely misunderstanding what is actually said in the article you link to. To clarify humans (in general) actually have their best eyesight in relation to colours in the middle of our visible spectrum aka around green. We are very good at perceiving many different hues and variations to colour here and understandably so because there you find the most prevalent colours in nature.
@@Wariyaka to answer in the same manner: your answer is so wrong i almost lack words! Firstly: my article is the development of the words, yes. Nice catch sherlock. Language is a great indicator for what humans perceive. If no word is present (in so many languages) its not uncommon that the concept didnt exist in their perception. I would be careful to claim something wrong based on the links posted as "further reading". That usually doesnt mean that it has to include a prove for a statement but additional information. In this case when the words for the concepts of blue/green came into existence around the world. To be frank i mixed blue and green there (ironic). Blue is the hue is was looking for. E.g. see here: "There's Evidence Humans Didn't Actually See Blue Until Modern Times" www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-evidence-science/amp
@@terfio Let me quote you from your original comment "Thats because until some time people couldnt perceive green that well and people in the old ages didnt need to" Now let's just narrow that down for you "couldnt perceive green" Now do you get why your initial comment is so fucking stupid???
I wish Fordola had more of a focus in the story to act as a foil to Lyse. Both from Ala Mhigo, taking two very different paths on what they believe would be best for their homeland.
Sometimes they overdo the “same goal different path” thing in the plot. I dont mean to be offensive but people are dumb and easily flip their feeling of a villain if the villain end up doing just a bit of good things. Taking Fordola as the example, I dont know whats good to Ala Mhigo stepping on a man’s head when hes late in handing in the tax. Shes just a f bitch who have dumb brain making wrong decisions over and over again which eventually fucked her friends and her life up.
My favorite part of this expansion is when Lyse says at the alliance reunion "At the risk of sounding stupid-" at this point I was just used to her just saying stupid things
"Being one of the survivors means living with the guilt of being not dead.: That's a really good takeaway from FFXIV in general. The whole story is full of people like that. Willing to sacrifice something for the good of the future. And full of ones who have survived such things and have to live with the "what ifs" in the past.
Revisiting the Warrior of Darkness plotline now, after spending a few years with the Scions in their Shadowbringers outfits... Can we take a second to appreciate that Urianger's "disguise" is just a social-distancing mask? Honestly the only reason it wasn't blatantly obvious to the other Scions, was that everyone was used to him wearing his goggles and nerd hoodie back then.
He basically wore opposite masks when he was with different parties. We saw the bottom of his face with the scions and the top of his face with the Warriors of Darkness.
The best and the worst part imo. Yotsuyu is a great character similar to Joker from Batman. They are bad people for sure but because they are victims of their twisted societies. Which it’s somethings that FFxiv lacked before SB. But Tsukuyomi part is stupid imo. She finally felt love and care for the first time in her life and she knew how kind people of Doma could be. Yet she was like I will destroy you all anyway without any solid reason or motivation at all. But in the big picture she’s definitely a flavorful villain.
@@AzureFides Well she was loved, but having recovered her memory she believed that she did not deserve it, it’s why when you choose the option ‘Goetsu will miss you’ she says that he’ll miss Tsuya. She fundamentally believes she’s unlovable after all she’s done and irredeemable.
I think Stormblood was probably not my favorite by a long shot, but I would've loved it if we could stay in the Doman plot line. That being said, the deaths felt pretty meaningful, Raubahn and Nanamo moments were nice, and Yotsuyu has my favorite character arc if I'm being honest.
I liked SB for the exploring and the crazy battles. But as a dungeon and story man, trials, raids, and super hard content dont matter to me. I also hat that Papalymo died only to be replaced by another Elezan. The game seems to never want Lalafells to be respected as canon warrior or honor. For example, you'll never see a lalafell as a big boss to be feared like Zenos. Other than being pretty I didn't care much Yotsuyu because all too often female villains are given redemption or sympathy due to their hard lives. I'm sure if we look hard enough we'll find sympathetic reasons behind Zenos too. But no one will cry foul at killing him.
I'm the exact opposite, which really speaks to something about Stormblood being such an odd package of different appeals. I liked Ala Mhigo (a bit boring at first, the ending is worth it), I loved Doma (especially the Azim Steppe) and Yotsuyu/Asahi's 4.2/4.3 story is by far my LEAST favorite story segment in the whole game. Including the slog that is ARR. Yotsuyu's character arc is just needless, cruel suffering at the hands of cartoon villains while the good guys do nothing to help her and fail her at the exact wrong moments. Then they try to wrap up an overly tragic character's death as development for Gosetsu. Developing him right out of the plot, in fact. It's not an exaggeration that for me personally, 4.2/4.3 has no good merits. Especially how they handled Fordola just patches before, I expected a much better resolution to Yotsuyu's story.
@@Avengedtenfold I honestly hate Fordola. The look of her. Her story arc. The dialogue. I'm sick of characters who use their suffering as an excuse to hurt others. I didnt need my parents to tell me that was wrong, even though they did. I could learn that from observing the world. Theres never a time where all you see is evil. If you look for it, you can find compassion and care. Sure the Garlean are evil most of the time. But for all her smarts, both her and Yotsuyu embrace cruelty and hate rather than escape the war and head out into the world and make their own lives. Some how it never occurs to these people corrupted by the war that there are places that the Garleans never or rarely go. And there are places like in Eorzea, the continent, where you can live in peace even with the war all around you. If Fordola and Yotsuyu SAVED THEMSELVES and escaped to the other nations like Gridania or Ul'Dah and told the people there what Garlean forces had done to them, and made them do, they would have met the Scion eventually and found allies to help them in the national leaders. And from there, stop the Garlean. Get your revenge on the real enemy. I cant stress this enough: the heroes of this story have so much on their plate they can't save everyone. Sometimes people have to save themselves long before the Scions and WoL arrive. It's not possible to be there all the time and let people know they can fight back. To bring everyone hope. The WoL has the Ascians, Garleans, voidsent, and random monsters and bandits to deal with. Everywhere they go. The least Fordola and Yotsuyu could do is escape the war on their own. But they didn't want to. They want to capitalize off it. Money. Power. Status. And feeding their sadistic hate. That's what they CHOSE to do. They didnt take the skills Garleans gave them and use it to escape or shut down Garlean forts from the inside. They preyed on the people and fanned the flames of war more.
@@kokayinewsome9308 It's been a while since ARR for you probably, so I think a brief reminder is in order: ALL of Eorzea is currently struggling with finding enough shelter for the refugees they already have. The problem is at it's worst in Ul'dah, the closest to Ala Mhigo which gets plenty of story attention. You either scrape by a living in little Ala Mhigo after risking your like by trying to leave in the first place or you end up unemployed in a refugee camp outside of Ul'dah's walls, exposed to monsters. Unless you are very, VERY lucky and find a position in either The Immortal Flames (You now are a soldier, good end!) or The Brass Blades (you are now a soldier in a horribly corrupt system, good end?) Gridania is a big no go too, there's an entire MSQ about it in ARR. Unless the elements are cool with you living in the forest, they aren't going to let you live there. And they are extremely biased against Ala Mhigans in the lore due to The Autumn War. Limsa isn't impossible but it is the furthest City from Ala Mhigo, that's a long travel to end up in a city full of criminals. And this is just from Ala Mhigo's perspective. Think about how you have to leave Garlean occupied Doma. You need enough money to pay the Ruby Tithe. Then you need enough money to charter passage in Kugane. Either that or you need to somehow charter your own ship under the eyes of Garlean forces. Even then, you might just die on the boatride over depending on if you hit a certain spooky dungeon and are woefully unprepared. To say nothing of pirates and other sea creatures. Fordola and Yotsuyu didn't have the power of influence to leave their situation until neither of them wanted to. Fordola isn't just motivated by cruelty, she's motivated by never wanting to feel powerless again. She joined the Garlean military because stuck between them and her kinsmen who hated her, she at least saw a potential to reclaim her chance at life with the former. To have her own autonomy. Meanwhile Yotsuyu has basically been a slave since a child in Doma and just hates everyone and everything, especially Domans. She was all-in from the start, she'd never even think about leaving. I like Fordola's current place because living as a Primal-Hunting weapon and being forced to relive all the pain she's caused to people is a suitable punishment for her deeds while still giving her a new path. Not for redemption but at least to do some good in the world to give some meaning to her spiteful existence. Meanwhile Yotsuyu is brought back to be abused in disgusting ways while the good guys just watch (this isn't a case of "Can't save everyone", they are RIGHT there and have place Tsuyu under their direct responsibility only for her to somehow escape. Twice.) because of an absurd plan from potentially the worst villain in all of FFXIV.
I think my least fav parts were definitely the Gyr Abania stuff. It felt a lot like it returned to some of the more monotonous questing of ARR, and a lot of the characters I just didn't find as interesting/endearing as the Othard characters. The one portion of Othard I think I found a bit tiresome/dragged on longer than needed, was the Ruby Sea. So much water traversal, and "go here and talk to this person" quests. Stormblood's good overall, and it has some dungeons/trials/raids I really really LOVE, but it did seem to juggle too many things in plot, and one side of the story drew the short straw of the two. Thank goodness the post-StB patch stuff helped flesh some things out more. (Pardon the week-late response/overly wordy reply : p I just thought I'd comment)
@@LemonCreature I agree about Gyr Abania, but them comments about the Ruby Sea are fighting words, I love that zone and wish they had done way more with the underwater segment.
I am sort of surprised, that in SB nobody comments on the fact that Ilberd had essentially won. His summoning of Shinryu on Baelsar's Wall proves that Eorzean Alliance (the good guys) would only do something about Ala Mhigo if they were left with no other choice. And then we free his country, as an aftereffect of his backstabbing spree. This is not exactly an uplifting story xp
That's the whole point of storm blood. To show that in war there are no morally good or bad people. Everyone is questioned. Even the people who accepted subjugation are questioned. It's a really deep story in my opinion.
His goal was really just getting his petty vengeance on the Alliance, the people of Ala Mhigo and secondarily Garlemald by summoning a primal as nasty as he can think of that will wreck Ala Mhigo on it's way to maybe Garlemald but who knows if it just goes somewhere else after Bahamuting Ala Mhigo, while also making sure to completely cripple the resistance by killing the vast majority of it's veteran members. Then Garlemald would attack in full force to destroy Eorzea in retaliation for the false flag attack faked by Ilberd's forces. Raubahn wasn't told how deranged Ilberd got. The Alliance overcoming the Empire was massively DESPITE Ilberd's efforts and literally took teleporting a united force of two other nations of Othard to the other side of the continent to make up for the massive loss of forces the resistance lost to Ilberd's machinations. Ilberd fully believed it'll be impossible for the Scions and the Alliance to remedy the situation and they pulled off the impossible with a quick trip to the East.
I feel like they really wanted to get rid of Ala Mhigo and Doma fast, especially Ala Mhigo, due to them being old remnants of 1.0 and the team wanting to focus more on the main points of the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc.
I do think Stormblood's story is off within the main part of the expansion and it only got slight better in post story quests. All I can really say is Tsukuyomi best written villain for the expansion once post story quests came out. Fordola is a pretty alright character and has some potential. Zenos just wants to fight you.
You forgot to add, that we convince them to risk their lives by doing house chores, tinge of emotional blackmail and occasional abuse of rules of fighting-oriented societies.
Same. It kind of got to a "oh, wow, i wonder how THIS village is gonna say 'we want nothing to do with you' and what challenge I'll have to overcome to prove my worth or......whatever"
@@callmeobsequious I feel like these comments are so much harsher than they should be but idk xD. I mean that one moment in Doma with the boy and his little sister was quite powerful, especially when you pay attention and read between the lines. But frankly expecting people who have been oppressed their whole lives and taught to fear any sort of change to rise up is a bit unfair in general.
@@narius_jaden215 Well, yeah, of course not. No one is expecting to be able to go to a country under totalitarian rule, go "Hello, randoms from Country I Am Not From! Today, we rise!", and have everyone follow them. But it becomes a problem in terms of storytelling for me when all I can remember is the cycle being commented on and also The Far East Stuff™.
@@callmeobsequious Yes well I just feel like it wasn't a problem for me, so objectively it's not a problem for everyone but your statement sure sounds like it should be xD. I thought the story was fine. It had its own themes and I enjoyed them for what they were.
Zenos is and will always be my boy. My man really said “I don’t give a shit about anything, you’re not boring and I like that.” Best character motivation ever
This. He's insane, one dimensional, and irrational. But that's what's so good about him. He reminds me of The Joker. Mind you, one dimensional doesn't mean they're not complex, it's always fun seeing how situations are in his POV. The fact that SB manages to make us utterly hate and want to kill him is amazing, and people complaining that we don't get to kill him, that's the point! He's literally doing that to piss you off, just so someday, when we DO get to kill him, it'll feel euphoric. All I wish is that they don't pull off any sort of redemption arc for him, as that would probably ruin his whole character for me. He's a villain through and through, a shadow of the WoL, hyper competent in so many disciplines (he even switches to Reaper for EW, and I'm planning on switching from Samurai main to Reaper main, just like him), a one man army, and is perpetually looking to be challenged. The only difference being WoL has a heart, and empathy, while Zenos does not.
@@ryudhal so insane he killed his father just to keep the war going, just so he can be entertained by battle and hunting. Was there ever a comedy beat with Zenos? Is that why they have Fandaniel with him? Because they can't show Zenos is comedy or passionate moments without ruining his appeal as the ultimate evil in the story so far? They cant even show his thought bubbles. They need him to be a mystery. All you get from Zenos is exactly what he is. Bloodthirsty. Cruel. Hateful. Obsessed. And very powerful and talented. So much so he overpowers an Ascian alone to steal his body back and cheat death. I still dont know how that worked. The soul gets kicked out of the body at death. But Zenos lingered. Elidibus jumped in. Zenos hounded him. Elidibus preserved the body with his mage even though it was dead? And then Zenos kicks him out and takes his body that is still preserved and undead. And boom, he has a body endowed with Elidibus magic to preserve it and all his old skills before the WoL fought him.
I was kind of disappointed the Limsa Lominsa pirates didn't show up during the Ruby Sea stuff. I would've liked to see their interaction with the Confederacy. Feel like the Maelstrom was very under utilized.
They probably already busy with whole deal of Gyr Abania shenanigans, not to mention Werlyt to some degree. Also, Alliance ship sailing that far is basically just a massive red flag on any nearby Garlean, knowing that Damalsca is still mostly under their control and most of their flying boats can move at near supersonic speed. Not even mentioning massive logistic required to move sizeable fleet across half of the globe lol. Not a good idea since one front is enought to strain alliance own logistic train.
He should have said "she suddenly has a damn Sharingan eye and therefore is probably not going to be killed cause Uchiha are like cockroaches and can literally survive an apocalypse".
Stormblood was redeemed as a story for the Yotsuyu/Tsuyu patch alone... if the whole expansion was around her as a villain and her motivations it would have been better than Heavensward imo
I really didn't care for the Yotsuyu stuff. It came across as pretty lazy and uninspired to me, it really felt like I was being begged to feel anything for someone who imo was pretty irredeemable. I don't think tragic backstories and circumstances make villains interesting, but rather complex emotions and motives. Instead of writing a complex character, they just erased ALL her emotions and motives just to build up to a really foreseeable conclusion.
The greatest sin of SB was not making Lyse a Dancer (They made Alisae a red mage before SB and Dancer was a Job coming in ShB). They literally gave her a Dancer's outfit and character wise it would've made complete sense that she would choose her own Job after pretending to be her sister for so long.
Stormblood main scenario writers Banri Oda handled Gyr Abania and Natsuko Ishikawa handled Doman. Ishikawa writes interesting antagonists: Yotsuyu in Stormblood, Emet-Selch and Elidibus in Shadowbringers, etc. She also did the dark knight job and Crystal Tower quests. What will Ishikawa do with Zenos and Fandaniel?
Doma for the most part was fine (fetch quests across massive maps, why) it felt like they just didn't know what to do with Ala Mhigo's story. I did however love Raubahn and the Sultana arc, too bad it was back seated the entire time to patches or messing with HW's story flow. Hell Ala Mhigo could've been amazing if they focused it entirely around that arc alongside the rebellion. (I personally love Lyse but she definitely should not have been the entire focus of character growth in SB) I suspect at one point SB was going to be 2 separate expansions hence why the story feels so scuffed and rushed.
There was an essay someone wrote about analysing Stormblood as a critique of colonialism. Viewing it through that context, it elevates itself (to me anyway) higher than my initial experience. That and I think Zenos is an interesting active nihilist and foil to the "with hope and friends anything is possible" sentiment
I gotta say... as tired as I am of the constant primal threat, I'm extra fucking sick of Titan specifically. Titan. Titan (Hard). Titan EX. Eden Titan. Lunar Titan (You know it's fucking coming...). Holographic Titan. Shiny Titan. Gigamax Titan. I'm S I C K of it, man.
Lyse is not a Thinker. they pushed her "learning to Think before Acting" too much. Should have just let her have a moment where she goes "y'know...i shouldnt be leader. i'm not good at it. Thinking. Plotting. That was all Papalymo. Me though? i'm good at hitting things. REALLY, good. So i'm just going to treat this like a fight. I'm going to swing, and if you get knocked down, that's on you." And then just...literally open a can of whup-ass. I personally like Lyse, but i really think they should have let her stay more HER, and less everyone around her.
Yeah. Yeah I understand the dislike for Zenos. Kind of annoying how you bully him in a fight but the cutscene just goes "UTTERLY DEFEATED AND HUMILIATED" Doesn't even make him intimidating or fun to fight. Just an annoyance
Good music, some of my favorite fights (there is nothing better as a tank than catching that giant fucking sword), and some fantastic set pieces make up my best memories of Stormblood. Everything else kinda fades out, but that's okay.
i just finished stormblood and the dungeons and trials were my absolute favorite part of it. Especially the final boss part when i think the song called triumph comes on!
I think I love Stormblood more because of where I was in life and how it helped me not kill myself. Kinda like fighting my own war and how I related to both the people who don't want trouble and wanting something more than being oppressed. But thank you for saying it's not bad as most people will say. Because it's not. But it could have been better. Also love these series! Looking forward for more because your mind and humor are amazing ❤️💜❤️💜
The issue with SB and the MSQ leaving a bad taste in people's mouth is that almost EVERYTHING hangs off it. You can't get away from the War stories and the arcs. Of the only two major unrelated pieces of content, Eureka was very divisive, and the raid was considered quite uninsipriing both in terms of story and gameplay until the final tier. Stormblood brought a huge amount of QoL, balance improvements and gameplay changes which many people today won't appreciate. They'll go "Heavensward was better than Stormblood", seeing HW through the lens of a design philosophy that really started in Stormblood, without any knowledge of the many, many janky, punishing or poorly thought out features that HW had and SB removed. TL:DR, What it did well isn't directly identifiable as part of Stormblood, and while most content was good, the major core features - MSQ, 8 man Raids, Eureka - were all flawed or unpopular in some way.
Forgot to mention how shit and half-hearted Lyse is. She did nothing but revert on her initial character and became a short tempered politician. If you say you don't like her dress, Lyse says she doesnt like it either and will ONLY wear it for the battle on the castrum. And yet, she never took it off. She reverted back to being Yda, exactly who she didnt want to be
Lyse is the worst part of Stormblood. I say this as someone who loves seeing Alisaie whenever she pops up in the story, as well as Tataru and Kryle. Oh, and Y'shtola. Like, I love all the female story characters of FF 14, except Lyse. She ruined all of ala mhigo's story for me
The Japanese word for blue has this annoying quality where it can sometimes at random refer to the colour green instead. In ancient Japanese there was no distinction at all between the two colours. That’s why the blue Kojin are actually green. I assume they just did it that way to make it seem more uniquely Japanese
Omega raids had nostalgia factor going for them hard but overall they were really fun. I'm not a fan of Lakshimi but all the other ones are either good or great. Stormblood is most held back by its narrative and how Gyr Abania feels like someone was too busy getting off on their weeb far eastern fantasy to remember that Ala Mhigo was supposed to be just as big a part of the expac.
You know this makes more sense If you think about the fact that Doma was actually the start of the plan to fight a war on two fronts. So the WoL went to Doma, got them to rise up and then started the Ala Mhigan war to further divide the Garleans. Because they actually didn't split up resources until after the Domans seiged Doma Castle.
I LOVED the Stormblood MSQ. The thing some people misunderstand about the Doma plot is that the plan was to distract Garlemald with another front. But the Warrior of light was so successful that every other outer province of the empire also rose up in rebellion. It wasn't totally useless to fight two wars on one front, because the WoL won so handily that is caused several fronts to pop up in the aftermath. That us why Doma was free to help in the Climax. Another thing to consider is the Empire wasn't likely to tell the wolfmen about Doma's liberation so soon after the fact because they were useful to the empire as shock troops. They were loyal because they thought Doma was finished. Of course they weren't going to find out. They weren't exactly citizens of the empire. They were slave soldiers.
Yeah the Lupin group you fight in Ala Mhigo was kept in the dark about Doma's liberation. To the point that because Alphinaud is more about talking the talk rather than making sure he can back his words up, and DIDNT bring something that was proof (like a generic letter or some kind of branded insignia that would be recognizable), that group didnt believe him. It literally took beating them almost to death before they decided you were right.
The msq for Stormblood is disappointing. It had so much potential to be as good if not better than Heavensward, but they kept clotheslining it. All the stuff in Doma is great, but for some reason, they kept fumbling Ala Miggo. I know ARR is worse in general, but I had rock bottom expectations going in, so I was pleasantly surprised at times. I didn't even know that Stormblood existed, so I couldn't brace for the rough parts.
Before shb I thought that Alphinaud was the most irritating character in game…until i met his sis. Also Zenos is the worst villain ever, literal trash with stupid cheat power
Susano is actually the primal of the Japanese Imperial Regalia which is why a particularly shiny shield (actually a mirror) flies out along with the sword and the rock you found
"a catgirl is deffinitly not gonna step trough my door and beat the shit out of me" the most beautyfull wishfull thinking i ever heard and ever will hear in my life
I love your videos man. your narrative skills are golden. can't wait for the shadowbringers one (i know it will take a while, i'm happy to wait). you deserve lots of subs, your content is such high quality. you make stories funny while also being comprehensive, and your class guides are also funny while being very helpful to understand how to play them.
@20:00 SO to that poor AST during my first run of that trial. I didn't even know what a duty action was... So she carried my dumb floortank's body through each confusing death.
I totally agree with your last tangent here. The gameplay was so fun, with aggro bars actually being something that we tanks needed to actively care, the fun mechanics of Omega Raids, and the Ivalice Alliance raid- especially the Orbonne Monastery Sid Part was god so fun. I know SB isn't really everyone's favorite expansion, but gameplay wise it beats SHB and EW.
Absolutely love your style of content and sense of irony. I think you found a untapped niche in the community, really do hope and believe you will find the success you deserve :)
Yotsuyu’s story made me feel extremely weird (I don’t like how they keep talking about Tsuyu like she’s not there, and she feels like a plot device), but those last moments from when she regained her memories to her death are weirdly cathartic. Girlboss moments.
Honestly the second we got that Echovision of her being Harriet Potter'd hardbody, i had a feeling where they were going with things. Personally though (just fully beat Stormblood last night) i can see why they were acting like Tsuyu was just a temporary thing, and being rather dismissive of her. it wasnt till she effectively proved herself to having lost all memory of who she was (which, sadly was decided JUST as they came back) that they started acknowledging her as her own person. But even then, even when she put the Yo back onto her name, you could...feel a bit of a difference. She was playing her role, and the Tsukuyomi fight itself helped show that, she didnt _want_ to be YOtsuyu again, she wanted to STAY Tsuyu, but felt that it was impossible, and she couldnt reconcile her past with that beautiful vision of the future she so temporarily held. Also i have not felt such *unbridled hatred* towards a video game character as i have Asahi, in a _very_ long time. i was literally fighting the urge not to hurl my controller at the damn screen when he started beating on her. OOOOGH i wish this was like, a Bioware game or something so we could have just Renegade Interrupted and said "fuck this you die, NOW."
Stormblood's story to me is just generic (aside from yotsuyu's story which is 10/10). You can sum up stormblood's story with "free x groups of people and then band together to fight Zenos". There's a few good character moments but overall it was pretty long-winded and drawn-out on stories that were predicable and uninteresting.
The plot just kept being turned off and on and most of the good parts are after the set up for the eastern plot. The set up was pretty bad even for the eastern plot. (Really didn't like how they just kept trying to get our other main cast out of the way so they didnt distract from the new characters, it just left a bad taste in my mouth that luckily they realized was a bad choice in Shadowbringers) Gyr Abania sucked during the initial patch and was only really starting to be fleshed out later on. Which then it just kind of got abandoned until the finale Personally I have a lot of issues with Stormblood up to 4.3, then the ending of 4.3 and on is amazing. Great set up for Shadowbringers so the story moved seamlessly into the next expansion and every single battle and story moment is fantastic. From emet selchs introduction to the conference with Varis Burn has basically become my standard for MMO dungeons and they really did a a lot of experiments with solo content which eventually evolved into the trust system
I agree with your closing statements, the only reason I see Stormblood existing is for content dumping where applicable and having to "wrap up" loose ends transitioning story-wise from 1.0's story to that point. Now that the Ala Mhigo story is done it doesn't have to be touched anymore, thank God.
Nope. Her brother doing what he did was the first time ina VERY long time i felt such actual unbridled rage towards a video game character. To the point my chest was hurting. Do i believe Hien should have double-tapped? yes. do i believe Tsuyu deserved better? also yes. He should have cut her head off while she was evil and finished the job, but he didnt, and we got to see her as she SHOULD have been, therefore, she deserved the chance to live a better life since she was given the opening to.
13:05 in japanese blue and green are sometimes used interchangeably. just a culture thing that probably dates back before blue and green had separate names
When you started to meme about the USSR I started laughing so hard my dad came in and called me a fucking homo! He doesn't get it! Soon all the Chads and Stacies will feel my wrath!
The number one thing I tell people new to Stormblood is “see it as its own story, not the follow-up to Heavensward or the setup to Shadowbringers” Being sandwiched between the juggernaut expansions makes its flaws infinitely more evident, as you said I know a few people that couldn’t enjoy it properly because it was “the roadblock before Shadowbringers” or “that thing after Heavensward,” the latter opinion I think being the biggest detractor for people that have been playing since 2.0 or even 1.0 But I also know a few people (including myself for personal reasons) that enjoyed Stormblood far more than they should’ve because they considered it a self-contained story building off of Heavensward
@@fernandozavaletabustos205 if you really want to degrade it to that, I fuckin guess We wouldn’t have the game we do today without the crossroads of SB though, so it’s a filler arc you shouldn’t ignore, I say
@@fernandozavaletabustos205 i'd say treat it more like "that OVA movie that happened but technically didnt happen until someone later on references it therefore making it Canon." Like how some anime will have a big movie but it's not till maybe a season or two after that someone references what happened in said movie, making it actually something that happened in the plotline, and not just a random "what if".
So, here is the thing. I had dropped out of ff14 after heavensward was done because of some life stuff. I came back when shadowbringers dropped because it seemed like a fun thing my gf and I could play together. Stormblood was so maddeningly bad that it burned me out and ruined my ability to enjoy shadowbringers. Stormblood had me yelling at my screen with how bad the writing was.
I gotta say, everyone who knew the ala mhigan anthem lyrics were from Ala Mhigo themselves. The other members who arent native to the country dont sing it.
Stormblood has the Far East and some good characters. Yotsuyu, Gosetsu, Hien, Zenos, Fordola, all of the Xaela tribes of the Azim Steppe. Storyline? It’s not bad, but between Shb and HW it never stood a chance. Liberating knock-off Thanalan isn’t nearly as exciting as ending a thousand year dragon war or literally saving the entire world.
