Sunday, May 24, 2015

Being Saleh: End of A Book

The final arc of the main story quest of FFXIV: A Realm Reborn has come full circle with the release of patch 2.5.7,  without spoiling anything I can safely say it ended with a bang, not the happy-ending kind one, but maybe for the best for the hero of Eorzea, after the crazy road trip and surprise acidic trip (minor spoiler, an awesome trial against another one of the Ascian), it gave us a very large picture. 

Sometimes the very large picture put you as a spectator :D
 Eorzea is just a continent, the story's shift to Ishgard not only to prove there are larger scheme at play, but also there are wars bigger than just on the continent, and characters that we always thought as a minor dismissable ones are suddenly show their true colors whether it's good or... Well .. Not so good, and it was revealed like "oh I know this will end like this, but s**t why isat guy become (spoiler)" kinda like in WOW if we suddenly discovered that Haris Pilton is a Titan. and I was thrilled to see there are some minor character that (hopefully) will take the center stage

My wind-up airship pet is actually the villain after all
look at it... on the back... always stalking... always scheming
It's good, it's deliciously good, not the best on story terms but yes, I'm satisfied, everything that has been overshadowed fall in nicely, there are some cast replacements, good twists, although it's too bad I wasn't there at the end of patch 1 so there's nothing to compare to the end of patch 2 in term of the story, I know they completely rebuild the world from scratch on patch 2.0 but still it'll be nice if I was there. On the other hand: Heavensward looks good,

So after a story act ended, where to go next until gates of Ishgard opened? Apparently I'm unsubbing, although there are tons of things I haven't done, like my Zodiac Gloves, but I decided to left some unfinished things from A Realm Reborn arc to see how's Square Enix deal with past contents, will they integrate them with all those level syncing things? Or just left them as it is