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Game Review: Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
2021-Dec-03, Friday 15:31
Shadowbringers is the second big piece of FFXIV news I remember paying attention to after the news that Kefka was being added as a raid boss in Stormblood. Once again, it was an article on Rock Paper Shotgun and reading the tweets of ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
nova_crystalis as they covered the Live Letter reveal of the title and basic plot. Travel between worlds. The Warrior of Darkness. Unyielding light devouring all in its path. I remember being interested mostly because World of Warcraft had done something similar with 2014's Warlords of Draenor that, by 2018, was widely acknoweldged to be a complete disaster. Could FFXIV really pull off a story of alternate worlds and time travel?
Well, Warlords of Draenor has a 4.8 user score on Metacritic and Shadowbringers has a 9.1. So.
I will say at the outset that I do not have unmitigated praise for Shadowbringers the way that most of the internet seems to, but that may be because it's hard for me to compare it to anything else since I only started playing when ShB was half-over already. The only systems and skills I've ever known have been ShB ones, even when I'm doing lower-level content, so it's possible I'm not giving ShB its clear due because I've never experienced an FFXIV where Tactical Points exist or where crafters are a gruelling nightmare grind to level. My view is ultimately skewed by being a latecomer.
But you're reading this because you want to know what I think, so here we go.
Everlasting light.
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Well, Warlords of Draenor has a 4.8 user score on Metacritic and Shadowbringers has a 9.1. So.
I will say at the outset that I do not have unmitigated praise for Shadowbringers the way that most of the internet seems to, but that may be because it's hard for me to compare it to anything else since I only started playing when ShB was half-over already. The only systems and skills I've ever known have been ShB ones, even when I'm doing lower-level content, so it's possible I'm not giving ShB its clear due because I've never experienced an FFXIV where Tactical Points exist or where crafters are a gruelling nightmare grind to level. My view is ultimately skewed by being a latecomer.
But you're reading this because you want to know what I think, so here we go.
Everlasting light.
( Read more... )
