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FF14 ARR base campaign notes

My notes from ARR through pre-Heavensward patches, mostly for reference to myself of what happened since I’m playing very slowly with a friend, and marking story points I’m confused by since the lore for this game is overwhelmingly confusing. In hindsight this list might seem critical but I am having fun, and its kinda obvious what parts I found engaging. I welcome explanations for lore stuff I’m confused on.

Started playing the game b/c free trial and a lot of people I know who play Destiny 2 also play it, but I stopped right after unlocking chocobo because of how boring the story was.

Got back into it to play with a friend and people were telling me to stick with it saying early story is bad, but yikes it’s real bad/boring

All i know of the plot from fandom osmosis is people meming on catboi being shot in Shadowbringers, and being horny for the guy who shot him. This is apparently big spoilers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Really its a problem with Stakes/pacing: oh there's this big threat but now you gotta spend the next 5 hours or so doing a dumb fetch quest for the feast. Even the reveal that the feast is for you did not lessen my annoyance, since that took more than 1 gaming session

Points for them leaning into the angst with your organization getting wiped out first high point of the game for me

Time to go deal with racist snow elves for the next 4 hours, theyre obstructionist enough its really fucking annoying. I was catching up on the archer quest line at the same time and had to ask in a discord if all the elves were just assholes. Its definitely because I don’t know the lore that I found myself so frustrated: their anti-dragon dogma won’t matter if the Empire conquers the realm

Doing the lvl 40 dungeon for the first time, i like the "vote abandon" system a lot more than wow's /.vote kick. I’m at lvl 41 in bad gear and i keep telling the tank i can't heal their big pulls and struggling with boss fights because the mechanics are hard. After every time I die/wipe tank is voting to abandon activity, till at the final boss where we wipe the tank just quits, so then dps leaves too after trying to get us to vote abandon again

the 2 new people who join literally open with "who abandoned the sprouts!?" and help explain what we are doing wrong. In wow i would have been vote kicked 2-1, with my friend we were able to vote no on abandon instead of having to restart it

I think they lean too heavily on star trek references with this airship. Later Note: i think they lean too hard on pop culture references generally

Cid’s whole cutsene: another example of how totally lost i am with this lore

Y'shtola can titan bubble? I hope she and Yda are girlfriends

The voice acting is SO FUCKING STILTED

These lvl 49 & 50 9 person groups for big story moments are fun, i don’t have to sweat as healer

Soooo many cutscenes, sooo many credits.

I can tell the budget went up, characters have facial animations now

Ok that lvl 50 moogle king fight was very cute, no idea what to do in it so I just AOEd heals and enjoyed the atmosphere and music

The voice acting has gotten better, but its kind of weird how some random cutscenes are voiced and others aren't. Guess its based on how important they are

Think I spent over an hour crossing across maps to unlock hard versions of dungeons, and all the other lvl 50 unlocks. Would have been a lot worse without teleports and flying mount

Trachtoum, can’t believe this assholes back again

I do like this character building long plot where you help the refugees and defeat Primals. I like Y'shtola going “history is going to keep repeating itself if we just keep driving the beastmen to desperation then killing them to stop a primal”

Uuhhhh BIG YIKES, with the cultural appropriation Blue Mage questline, where the plot is a scummy dude goes to the “New World” to learn magic from characters that are visually coded to be Native Americans. Looking this up, seems like it's an issue that’s already been repeatedly discussed.

After not being able to play for 3 weeks due to Endwalker queue times, its confusing to return and have part of a plot about a politician manipulating sentiment around refugees to get access to some weapon tech then go fight another Primal and then set through a lore dump and overly cryptic Ascian cutscene

A nice person stranger invited me to a FC after giving some advice, wow didn’t realize housing was so big and complicated. I’m making the resolution to never get invested in that, I don’t even have a good house in ACNH

Why are we getting story with this dude Ilberd instead of the old bearded pope guy the audience was shown an ominous cutscene of

iceheart seems super based, like everyone’s criticizing her for laying with dragons, but the dragons pass the Harkness test I’d fuck one. All the stuff she’s talking about after the hard mode dungeon fight i just have no clue whats going on

Midgardsormr: both a corpse and alive? (is he the God-Emperor of dragons??) Talking about how he doesn’t forgive or forget, and I’m like ok I have no clue what’s going on other than the dragons seem to fight the Empire and the Ishtar elves? The dragon says he won’t harm me but removed the rainbow crystal group blessing?! We get a little baby midgardsormr minion??

So glad Moenbryda gives recaps like the pace of the story is so fucking slow and with so many sidetracks, I had tuned out somewhere around Ascians bad gotta build a special magic device to kill them. The game even does an almost 4th wall break acknowledging their recapping exposition

I like Moenbryda a lot but i cant not think how impractically short her outfit is, like it should be flashing everyone in combat

Ok i will give Nabriales points for grandstanding and the “enlighten” pun, but im so confused why this staff matters. Oh shit Moenbryda got 1 shot that sure raised the stakes. I’d be sadder about her death if she wasn’t introduced to be tragic when killed off same patch

This disembodied voice is G’raha Tia? Very curious to see his journey into the catboi who gets shot and the internet is also horny for. I see why, the archer outfit with the beefy arms, the mysterious entrance, the mismatched eyes, being a CATBOI

Ok so the instigator of the crystal tower questline is a Garlean named Nero, with a infamously historical name like that I’m sure this guy is gonna be a villain. Honestly time to be suspicious of anyone covering their eyes

Ok so red eyed people show up and are mysterious and we get backstory with G’raha, then its revealed they’re clones, then the plot just moves on. This is why I don’t fucking remember Nero or characters like him, too much shit happens in this game

Im increasingly amused that G’raha Tia’s heterochromia isn’t like a normal cat thing in this world but has a magic backstory. I think its a totally different experience playing this quest line and knowing its required because G’raha is in Shadowbringers vs playing it when this questline was released then years later being surprised at his return as a main character

I know someone’s supposed to be important when there’s a slow-mo body pan of them and their armor, which Estinien’s armor looks peak final fantasy bullshit. Apparently he wields the powers of dragons but that isn’t heretical?? Seems hypocritical

Steps of Faith dungeon was actually novel and fun, i spent most of my time as white mage doing damage

Glad the game warns me when there will be a lot of cutscene so i can get a snack. Teledji really is a scheming type villain, and damn I liked Ilberd :( that “it was me” moment goes hard in the cutscene

I’m very gay for Yda, her mask cracks then she goes to One Punch mode. Everyone’s so desperate to make a “I’ll hold them off” that I have to wonder if they would have succeeded better grouping up. I’d be more worried if I didn’t know they wouldn’t kill off any of these beloved characters offscreen since they played that hand once

Wow Haurchefant has a bro moment, using the snow elf xenophobia for our benefit

Ah what would it be without cryptic Ascian shit after the credits, I was wondering where Urianger was, I guess hanging out with the ascians

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