blog - FFXIV Endwalker 6.0 MSQ Thoughts
14 Dec. 2021
holy fucking shit dude, what the fuck, i suppose ill do this by level
THIS WILL BE SPOILER HEAVY, YOUVE BEEN WARNED, THERE WILL BE SCREENSHOTS AND SCREAMING
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MSQ 80
i didnt really fuck with the quest accept music but man the quest complete music rules.
from the get go my doubts for hydaelyn were kinda melting away, how can someone who tells me to hear feel and think
for myself be bad?
and UGH that answers cover i almost fucking broke right there, it felt so... prophetic??? anticipatory???
yknow
sharlyan is ofc, beautiful, im obsessed with how hard they went on the foliage of this damn place, lushest shit ive
seen on my 4 yr old laptop.
i started with the thavnair side first because i genuinely thought itd be less good than the side with my wife and
kids and the catboy on it but was pleasantly surprised with the 4 idiot dads adventure.
thavnair is so vibrant and unique and actually just a really lively area. vrtra is so cool and sexy and i love and
adore nidhana so much.
fandaniel/amons setup was kinda wild but made sense and i like this unexpected slant to giving him depth
labyrinthos side was sexy too, love my children and my wife and also erenville??? for my lesbian heart??? (tho ftr
no one cis names themselves erenville)
...😳
really i can only describe the other half of this as "drowning in milf pussy"
adore my kids tho, im your dad now
MSQ 81
dungeon was neat! wasnt jaw dropping but i appreciate that theyre ok with just throwing bozja level of aoes at us
now, dodging a fuck load of circles activates something primal in my brain even if im not thinking that hard
nidhanas talk of akasa was already intriguing at this point,,, an energy alongside aether...
the dinner was so fucking cute you guys, oh my god, i love my children and their house cat
i wish alisaie would give herself more credit among this, she tries so hard and does so well, and ever strives for
better,,, i love her sm
MSQ 82
fucking look between lyshtola moment and saducirina and lesbian sadu basically fucking confirmed (this is a bit
beyond subtext now) i really was suffering from lack of homo control this whole fucking segment.
in any case it was rly fucking cool to see everyone here, even the job quest characters (tho i wish we somehow got
xrhun or sidurgu or jacke or oboro or)
the whole degment of getting into garlemald was cool as shit, stealth duty felt like its own viable fucking game tbh
and im glad theyre putting more work into making interesting singeplayer segments
the segment of the sisters was really fucking brutal, and its so eye opening to see such a human reaction of fear in
the place. the radio music is still stuck in my mind cuz, holy fuck what a great use of diegetic music, garlemalds
peoples last grasp on their home through a requiem
MSQ 83
man this segment was fucking rough for me, seeing the twins seperated from the wol like this while quintis
goes on his desperate little crusade i just auughagh
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST DUDE
I APPRECIATE THE BODY HORROR BUT THIS WAS GENUINELY CHILLING, GET OUT OF MY CATGIRL
that duty was so fucking intense too, my god
i think here they really figured how to use the mmo medium in a unique way, to have a character you put so much
effort into be taken control of was pretty sexy (if it wasnt so creepy)
gay gay homosexual gay
anyway fuck your primal fuck you again varis, give me your fucking orchestrion roll for that bgm and dont pass go
(that was a banger track tho)
again, dungeon was just neat, i think eldritch aesthetics blend together in my brain so i dont rly connect to them
but it was defs fun (alphinaud can kind of handle double pulls now >:))
MSQ 84
FUCKING MOON ??? ? ? ?? ? ? ?
my brain stretched so fucking much i thought this was gonna be end of expac shit we were just on the fucking
moon!!!!!!
i have never been so fucking stressed in my life, we cleared with 17 seconds left, holy fucking shit, god, zodiarks
fucking dead, what the fuck
also man hythodaeus is pretty, missed you my man a crumb of gender please
Normal Planet Sounds.
didnt really vibe with this section it felt like i had come to the conclusion that This Isnt The Way long before the
story gave me a crumb of that, so it was just fetching until we got there, at least we have moontender
the urianger development this segment kind of made the whole thing worth it tho, tender for him... in the end i came
to like the lopporits by extension, urianger is so good
also yshtola sexy in that shot
in conclusion
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
im so tender and emo and fed and squirming even thinking abt this segment, as much as i crave for another angle to
yshtolas character they really go hard on what she is here, so caring under her resolve, because of her resolve, for
the wol and everyone else of the scions
my heart broke into so many fucking pieces when she did the farewell of the nights blessed, im inconsolable and gay
so gay
MSQ 85
THINGS ARE NORMAL AND UNDER CONTROL
the shit yshtola mustve seen there, god, holminster 2 huh
this bit was a bit draggy too but the whole idea of it is so intriguing, puzzling out the connection between this,
aether, despair and akasa
exarch mode graha was also nice to see again, that he can still be that leader deep down is nice to see past his
woobification
MSQ 86
the air is so pensive
FIRS TIME FIRST TIME I MISSED LYNA AND RYNE AND FEO UL AND WHERES GAIA, THEY HAD THEIR FESTIVAL WITHOUT ME ???? IM
AAAAAAAAA
this FUCKING AREA took the brain part expanded by the moon and blew it up 50 time more holy FUCK SHIT WERE JUST
GOING BACK IN TIME???? WERE JUST THERE THEYRE REAL?
but also god in hindsight elidibus' lines are heartbreaking, the last of the unsundered. he was probably also
referencing his involvement in pandaemonium
elpis is so FUCKING GORGEOUS and aaaaa i love meteion sm, it felt so personal to iris(the cat one and me) too as
someone also "different" (read: trans, neurodivergent, severely socially anxious, beastlike, too god especially
since everyone treated iris like a creation here)
two beasts...
to be able to share our pain, and hermes as the bringer of our final days driven mad by his heart, too big for the
world he lived in, this part hit
MSQ 87
i am suffering from lack of pussy control
im so fucking gay, also it feels so bittersweet to see them all talking like friends before everything went wrong,
and then to bring them full circle, unable to recognise how they turn out
THIS WAS SO FUCKING SEXY THE MUSIC??? VENAT IS SO COOL OFC THE FORMER AZEM WOULD JUST FUCKING DUKE IT OUT, god, it
felt like such a fun spar with an old friend
the vibes are so far off the charts, i cant help but keep listening to this, jamming and aching
this was so chillingly timed, so scary, and heartbreaking, she finally found someone different, like her, and then to have her give into despair,,,,
it hurts so much with her lore in hindsight, as someone who kind of has given into the nihilism of it all, carrying on only for the ones around her, who found a kindred spirit in a way, and to see her wiped away by it
this was so fucking fun tho, seeing our little party just bantering abt mechanics it felt so 4th wall breaking and real
this HURT???? they remember none of this, it rly felt like we became good friends...
i have no fucking words, it all comes full circle... her plan thousands of thousands of years in the making, to find the answer to lifes futility
as usual ofc, i am so gay for that
"a confluence has formed between my time and yours", it worked, this is our shared time
i need to go back, fucking god, elpis is insane
MSQ 88
fucking anyway, Kill
TELL HIM ALISAIE FUCK YEAH, the acknowledgement that though zenos has found his purpose in nihilistic oblivion, being a dick abt it wont work, to have alisaie say that is so incredibly badass
its also cool in a meta way that as zenos was dragging on as a character, alisaie basically just says were fucking sick of him and tells him to get character development, she rly is the protagonist god
[spaceship chores happened here] seriously this dragged almost as much as the lopporits, it was cool to see how much power in our friends we had gathered through these games but cmon man can we have had smth more compelling
me too tho
this was nice closure... though its been so long since moenbryda, the loss urianger was at was painful enough, and to see thancred so proud of how far hes come was cute,,, bi dads
side characters, milfs, optional content characters, ishikawa rly loves her talos moments goddamn
still not a fan of what forchenault did ofc, but its nice to see him finally fucking give his kids agency, its understandable ofc its the end of the world but dude
MSQ 89
SPACESHIP SPACESHIP HYDAELYN HYDAELYN
its just straight up a fucking spaceship god
fucking HELL, also man when hermes recognised meteions name man, ALSO ASAHI???? FUCKIGN ASAHI???
these fucking character thesis' man, jesus christ, as on the nose it is i think i really needed this for perspective...
also FUCKING TRUST TRIAL BABEY
hhh its all come around,, and i really love when she said that we should look to our hope, not azems invocation, "for you are you, and no one else", its just a method of channelling our hopes, dynamis manifest
this was such a sweet little series of moments aaaaa, i love yshtola i love the scions sm, to hear the old ones speak of retirement was so nice but also so bittersweet hhhh, i really live for this kind of thing in this game
SPACE SPACE SPACE HOLY FUCK THIS IS SO HUGE IN SCOPE
holy FUCK
Cool And Normal Place
its so fucking insane that thancred just fucking, straight up dissipates into hope manifest as the world
MSQ 90
this whole segment was so lonely god, yshtola and uriangers definance, grahas perserverence in the face of nihilism (and mild body horror), and the twins just reflecting back on all our adventures hhh
and when its time for the twins to go,,, they worry for her, i was fucking dying at this point, jesus fucking christ, even knowing theyd be back Somehow this was so touching and heartbreaking, hearing alisaie feel so powerless to help
agony
haaaa i was crying by this fucking point, jesus christ, meteions still in there and still remembers
well they fucking did it they topped amaurot, jesus christ, the scale was enormous and the mechanics were so fun, im in awe
this was so much, sending our friends off with the teleportation device, fucking ZENOS??? HES HELPING US?????? shitting so fucking hard its so raw
THE FUCKING MUSIC, BOTH OF THE TRACKS, A SONG OF HOPE, THE SCIONS PRAYERS FOR THE WOL, THE COSMIC SCALE OF THE MECHANICS, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST MY BRAIN IS EXPANDED SO HARD
was fucking sobbing by this point, together, it was always together thats the meaning in the face of nihilism, meteion finally understood and iris,,, she finally came to accept it
AND YKNOW WHAT, IRIS IS IN A GOOD MOOD FOR A ZENOS FLING ACTUALLY, SURE, FUCK IT, HES NOT WRONG
UNBURDENED BY DESPAIR AND INTERALISED GUILT SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA FIST FIGHT A BEASTLY MAN AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE IN THE SEXIEST WAY POSSIBLE, TO COPE
in conclusion, jesus fucking christ this game goes so fucking hard, holy fuck, im going to be so insufferable when we can talk again. also fuck you alphi for the triple fake out
man theres a lot of this expac and iris' lore that hits a bit too close to home for me to talk about publicly, but thank you endwalker, i am so fed, this is the Most MMO
