By far, the best experience I’ve ever had and could have in an MMORPG. I will only talk here about the 2.0 to pre-3.0 patch. Final Fantasy 14 gave me my first experience of being able to play an MMO on a console. I remember picking up my PS4 and buying a game without much hope, but which I believed would be fun due to MANY people saying good things about it. But, if you know this here in Brazil, you really have to look for information and I researched A LOT until I discovered Final Fantasy 14. And although I had difficulty adapting, it was smooth as I progressed through the game’s story and the mechanics were introduced to me. I still remember how surprised I was when the first fight against Ifrit was 1v1. The rich world that was introduced to me in an environment that at first glance seemed like just another adventure, but is in fact a reflection of Garlemald’s war against the Eorzian nations. In several quests, the results of that war are shown very explicitly. In addition to the main plot against Garlemald, we are also introduced to the issue of other Eorzian races and their serious problems with primals who are a cancer for the world. Each race has its unique characteristics and this is reflected in their gods who are shown to us as the primals of the Final Fantasy series. Its unique soundtracks and each lyric hide a description and appreciation of the race for its God.
The game took me on an adventure that really covered a lot of ground in a magnificent way, although I still played it back in the day before Square Enix reduced the number of main story missions and so I feel grateful to have made the most of what the game had to offer in these patches.
The post ARR is even much more climactic and shows one of the best plot-twists I’ve ever seen in an audiovisual work. It would be wrong to say that that ending was predictable and we are shown later in the following DLC how what happened there impacted not only our protagonist but also the entire main cast of the story and that that would haunt them until the current moments of the game’s setting.
With incredible villains to say the least and having to fight several different enemies in different situations, with wonderful gameplay and soundtracks and with beautiful world building and character development, A Realm Reborn is truly for me what fantasy has always been. It was a story about hope, hopelessness, evolution, political plot and about overcoming your own limitations to move forward regardless of how dark the outcome. 5/5 the GOAT of MMORPG games.
The game took me on an adventure that really covered a lot of ground in a magnificent way, although I still played it back in the day before Square Enix reduced the number of main story missions and so I feel grateful to have made the most of what the game had to offer in these patches.
The post ARR is even much more climactic and shows one of the best plot-twists I’ve ever seen in an audiovisual work. It would be wrong to say that that ending was predictable and we are shown later in the following DLC how what happened there impacted not only our protagonist but also the entire main cast of the story and that that would haunt them until the current moments of the game’s setting.
With incredible villains to say the least and having to fight several different enemies in different situations, with wonderful gameplay and soundtracks and with beautiful world building and character development, A Realm Reborn is truly for me what fantasy has always been. It was a story about hope, hopelessness, evolution, political plot and about overcoming your own limitations to move forward regardless of how dark the outcome. 5/5 the GOAT of MMORPG games.