i should note i've done the dungeon at the facility (loved it, very fun, very fucked up)

but what came after......................................i dislike

OH MOOD

i logged out after the fight with the big lizard thing & the cutscene that followed because it was late and i was annoyed

LIKE...................I WOULD RATHER THEY NOT EVEN DELVE INTO IT

this is really. not. a great expac. and the post-patch stuff is. N O T

it's annoying because i didn't HATE the expac even though it's not my usual faire; i even enjoyed a lot of it and it gave me some side chars i love

BUT LIKE

NOT EVERBODY'S PARENTS HAVE TO BE TRUE AND GOOD AND NO YOU SEE THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.

FIRST OF ALL. WHY THE FUCK WOULD KOANA AS THE VOW OF REASON PUT HIMSELF IN THE PATH OF A FUCKING VILLAGE DESTROYER TO SAVE A FUCKING BUFFALO

"they are like family to the hhet-" HE DOESN'T FOLLOW THAT BELIEF SYSTEM

the writing is just SLOPPY\

it was interesting that his parents could've abandoned him!!!! i also had the impression that he was old enough to remember waking up alone, but this patch makes it seem like he was a little baby and he doesn't remember it!!!

because like!!!!! you would think he'd remember waking up in a RUINED FUCKING VILLAGE and wonder if maybe something happened!!

maybe the hhetsarro had a way of life that koana just COULDN'T understand, and maybe it IS reasonable to them to leave one or two members behind in order to keep up with the rroneek! maybe it was a matter of starvation! OR

maybe koana's parents in particular were SHIT HEADS!!! maybe that could've been true!!

maybe the tribe wasn't awful or their beliefs weren't awful, maybe koana just had shitty parents!!!!

it's so annoying to just RETCON all of that with "actually his parents were brave and loving and!! nobody is at fault, koana just misunderstood for decades " AND HE NOT HAVE

ONE SINGLE COGNITIVE ISSUE WITH ACCEPTING THAT TRUTH????

it's boring

it's BORING writing

it's DULL, one-dimensional, IRRITATINGLY FLAT writing lacking literally any nuance that makes a character interesting

lmao look all I thought of in that scene was "...well at least this makes for good icon bait but I'm so bored by the rest of this drivel"

anyway when i app him it will be from before this patch because i hate it

LEGIT KJ I

I TOOK OUT MY EARPHONES SO I WOULDN'T HAVE TO HEAR KOANA'S GREAT VA READ THOSE SHITTY LINES.

LMFAO

why would they force that man's perfect voice to say THOSE STUPID WORDS

i hope he got paid a whole lot at least

ALSO WHY ARE BOTH OF THE DAWNSERVANTS HANGING OUT IN THE BUTTCRACK OF TURAL HERDING FUCKING BUFFALOS

SEND ONE OF THEM BACK FOR FUCK'S SAKE

I DON'T CARE WHICH

back to some ARR writing level here

SHIT!!! even if they wanted to do this stupid "no actually koana's parents were GOOD" storyline, it would've been interesting getting it from wuk lamat's POV and then watch her try and tell her brother that later!!!! and see how he deals with the second-hand knowledge!!!

KJ i'm tired

boots i'm tired

anybody else reading this...................i'm tired

sometimes a person's parents just fucking suck. and they can be a good person still. with flaws and issues.

and sometimes they are a good person IN SPITE of their shitty parents. TO spite them

I'M BACK HERE BC I'M STILL ANNOYED AT WORK ABT THIS

WHO IS WRITING THIS CONTENT

please God don't say it's Ishikawa

not the queen

ok i don't know who it is but she's still in her supervisor role so it wasnt her directly at least

i don't know if they're also doing the patches but i know the main expac was written by Werlyt Guy. (I don't know his real name i just know he was responsible for the Werlyt trials storyline)

the werlyt trials................... idr

they're very forgettable and only really serve to sideline Gaius' character and keep him out of the Garlemald plot

OH THOSE

the WEAPONs

yeah idr the stories just the fights bc they were (mostly) SO fun

also big fat tacos

the fights were fun! mostly but yeah the story was..... it sure happened.

you know what? it surely did

someone definitely told us something

yeah ishikawa hasn't been super involved in this expac

i hope she comes back bc the writing has been. not great

the way the "heavily native coded miqo'te" storylines have been handled is. Real Bad, tbh

has it been AS bad as i feared (lookin' at you, "new world" set), no, but if the bar is on the floor and you still keep tripping over it that's. not great.

I DID SIDE EYE THAT.................

maybe I'll just rush through this and either work on my alts or do a ShB new game + again

on a kinder note

shale thank you for reminding us that elezen women are superior in every way

also your voice is so so so attractive, thanks again

I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS DUMB LIZARD GIRL THIRSTING FOR BASIC ASS CRYPTO BRO PATRICIDE Z'JA

IS SHE TALKING ABOUT HOW SHE WILL GET THAT DICK AND THAT'S ALL SHE WANTS

OH SHE IS FUCKED UP TBH

LMFAO WUK LAMAT RIGHT THERE HAVING TO LISTEN TO THIS

girl legit tried to babytrap him

but also like "hey we haven't listened to this recording, small child, shall we all listen to it together"

HER FACE SHOULD BE THE ENTIRE TIME

MAYBE...SOMEONE...SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO IT FIRST....

MAYBE

sorry you had to find out both your parents were utterly deranged, kiddo

oh well!

lizard girl like IF I FUCK HIM THEN HE'S OBLIGATED and baby boy like "what is a fuck"

SHE DID THE TURKEY BASTER METHOD

and then she's like LOOK IT'S YOUR SON, DON'T YOU LOVE ME NOW and he was like ".............no? obviously?"

LMFAO DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE ZORAAL JA WAS LIKE "NOOO I CAN BE A DAD I'M TOO EVILLE"

i'm uninstalling

shale: uhhhhh....so that's them...... 😬

my wol is like so i got some crafters to level

PERHAPS HIS MOTHER IS ALSO A NUTJOB, SHALE, PERHAPS THAT IS ALSO TRUE

gulool ja: father and mother were both so lonely
everyone else:

LMFAO

me logging in adn going "oh egg is in the backroom OH I BET I KNOW WHAT SHE'S DOING"

thank god this child is a licensed therapist and capable of processing complex emotions immediately

KJ im getting PISSED OFF

I PAY SO MUCH MONEY, WHY IS YOUR WRITING BAD

PAY MY SUB AND ILL FIX IT FOR YOU, SE

7.1 was so extremely underwhelming

but I don't think I've seen an X.1 that I liked except for maybe heavensward's

the only thing I've taken from this is that mr advisor to the queen is sus

OH there you have it, he's definitely the one behind this shit

YUP THERE IT IS

"subtlety? we don't do that here at square"

LMFAO WUK LAMAT IS JUST LIKE "OI CUNT D:<<<<<< "

"the real sphene" girl she wasn't the real sphene either!! she was a fucked up computer program that fell into a logical fallacy ages ago!

do we really need to bring sphene back tho i didn't hate her, but like. is it necessary. why

yeah i'm really disappointed with the writing in that expac overall tbh

i'm reasonably certain that current sphene is actually the ascian connected to this shard's calamity but like

meh

like i liked a lot of the concepts

but the execution is so. milquetoast at best, y'know? and the things about the expac that were actually good to me all got defanged almost immediately

^ yes that

all the unsundered ascians are dead tho so if it is then it'll be a crazy one

well, we do have one sundered Ascian whose current status is completely unknown. Though I hope it's not them, because we should really be done with the Ascians as far as the main plot goes.

put them in the Arcadion, that's fine

wait which one

legit that would be hilarious tho

oh, it's two of them, actually, apparently. I swear it was only one

Halmarut and Pashtarot

he's not even fighting he's just rigging bets

bro ider those dudes

why do you remember every word abt games

that's because they've never actually appeared in-game. they exist by name only as part of the Convocation

Pashtarot appeared at the end of ARR jacking off to Zodiark but that's it. Halmarut is just totally unknown aside from name

both of 'em could have been shanked by Gaius and we just don't see their masks with him tho

honestly it feels like it's probably what you said, they're being way too on the nose and smug with these cutscenes