I had previously stopped playing this game as, simply put, my level of English wasn’t high enough to understand the story and the language, but now that I’ve resumed playing this game and gotten past A Realm Reborn… I’m having so much fun ✨
So yeah, here you find my adventures as well as my analysis of Heavensward and why A Realm Reborn wasn’t as amazing as it could have been.
Also, please, no spoilers in comments, I’m still playing the lv 60 quests in Heavensward!
I quit the game more than once during the slog that is the post-ARR questline. I got to the point where I was just skipping all dialogue, then started paying attention again when I noticed new characters being introduced. Getting to Heavensward was great, both storywise and just to be in new areas.
I heard later that they pruned that section of the questline down, and it really needed it.
Yeah they changed it a lot in the past few years or so. They removed a lot of the filler quests and remade the final dungeons and raids (they split the huge final AAR dungeon into three smaller ones for example). They also made it possible to do all the main quest dungeons with bots so if you don’t want to play with real people or can’t you can still go through it. The bots are the characters that appear in the story so it’s quite lore friendly too.
Though there still are some hiccups in ARR, the biggest one being the Crystal Tower raids which are required to progress the story and can’t be done with bots as they require 24 people total. New players have a lot of issues with the queues for that one, sometimes waiting for an hour or more in queue from what I’ve seen.
But yeah I recommend anyone that likes story games and Final Fantasy games to give it a go, it starts fairly slow but the story is amazing when it gets going. Also the game is filled to the brim with references to other Final Fantasy games, it’s a love letter to the franchise. Oh also the music is outstanding, one of the best music in any video game.
Personally, that was a bit I enjoyed, but it’s also true that I played the updated version, so maybe that was part of it.