Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Review in Progress

Twinfinite's review-in-progress for Final Fantasy XIV's third expansion, Shadowbringers, for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.

[Jsm89k]

He’s obviously going to praise it to hell. If it’s Giuseppe reviewing that guy has a bias for this game. He cannot be critical of it.

[JD_Shadow]

Might not blame him. it's one of the better xpacs for the game right now. Not sure if it beats HeavensWard, but it has been a better xpac than Stormblood was (not that SB was a bad xpac, mind you, but the story got a bit disjointed). SHB doesn't eff around with the story at all, and goes right for the feels...and at times the nightmare fuel if you know about the spoilers.

[Jsm89k]

I’m not going to deny that it’s good, it does hit me in the feels. But it also has me me skipping nearly half of it because it’s filled with boring characters arcs that aren’t related to the main story at all. Idc about this guy’s hardships with the damn trolley or about how this tribe doesn’t get along with another tribe. Even after skipping so much, it takes an absurd amount of fetch quests to actually get to the good stuff.

Like I said in the other thread, music is great except for some areas. The fairy world is nice but the rest are pretty meh. It’s incredibly boring for the most part.

Lemme add that heavensward had probably the most messed up story in any game and so far for me shb has yet to come close. Heavensward did not bore me to this degree either and estinien was an awesome addition to the story and I want more of him.