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Lead Shadowbringers Writer Natsuko Ishikawa Returns for FFXIV: Endwalker
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It was but
it resolved exactly the way it needed to. Alphinaud played himself; the Scions aren't going to solve problems by acting like a PMC, and that's the point of that plot.
Not that I agree it or Heavansward is better than Shadowbringers though. They're great, but SHB is another league.
Is it really losing if you just stand there doing nothing and let it happen?
I'm telling you WoL is an adrenaline junkie. They get off on that shit. They deserve someone like Zenos as a best friend.
Good news! I will be simply amazed if EndWalker surpasses Shadowbringers. Given that they are completely wrapping up the Hydaelyn and Zodiark story, 6.0 is gonna be crazy.
Sure, but since the expansion after Endwalker is meant to be the start of a new journey I think having her directly involved in coming up with the narrative direction for the next big step in FF14 would be pretty smart and have a much larger long term impact. She'd be working on something that would impact at least the next five years of storytelling in the franchise. Given the way SE handled things with Tabata, it definitely seems like you have more of a shot nailing your creative vision working on their MMO that they're willing to let people iterate on.
Yeah, nothing like that ever happened
duh wol is writen as the player stand in, all wol seeks is adventure. if the wol does good along the way, so be it.
The WoL doesn't seek anything. They're nothing more than a weapon. The Scions and Alliance point WoL at whatever they want to die and let them loose.
You can sit here and quibble about player-avatar motivations all you want, but the genuinely affecting and deeply emotional scenes regarding Amaurot, the Ascians, Emet-Selch, the Crystal Exarch, Ardbert, and the plight of Eulmore are basically top-flight in any gaming narrative, and easily stand as the most grounded, well-written scenes in an entire franchise literally beloved for its narrative and character work.
It's absurd to take anything away from her on this.
It's absurd to take anything away from her on this.
Nothing to add beyond that she's amazing and this is an obvious choice for the completion of this story.
It's going to be a tough 7 months waiting to play this.
It's going to be a tough 7 months waiting to play this.
lol or how about when they have your character explain something to the other characters, and you start frantically motioning and mouthing while the screen zooms out and fades to black...
I actually don't mind these things, but they do use them a lot.
I love this style of silent protagonist, and I wished more games used it.
What style? I don't mind silent protags at all, I just think showing your character voicelessly mouth the dialog choice you just picked adds nothing lol. The player knows the choice they picked, they don't need a zoom in on your character's face with their mouth moving.
The character emoting and showing emotion instead of blankly staring off into the void.
I like the smiles and /ponder and etc., but the "talking" parts always feel awkward.
You'd think this was more common, but then you play something like the lauded Dragon Quest XI and the protagonist has a blank stare all the time with some minor changes rarely. It feels like them not speaking adds literally nothing. Not to mention they aren't even a CaC.
Her trajectory within the FF14 project over the years is absolutely amazing. She wrote my favourite half of Stormblood and an excellent expansion in Shadowbringers. Emet-Selch is such a great character.
Looking forward to her work in the next expansion and beyond
Looking forward to her work in the next expansion and beyond
They are going to end with Answers just to loop it around and it's going to be epic and I'm probably going to cry.
