i know the devs likely want me to have p2w fomo and feel the urge to grind this that whatever to be top rank or something but unfortunately for them i'm too busy spinning my character around to care. this game is unashamedly cash grabby but it's somehow.. kind of ignorable if you're just like me and using it as a medium to take pictures of your ocs. it's greedy, takes up a lot of space, and has wonky translations and a skip worthy story mode, but it's still at its base level a surprisingly well made game, especially for something that runs on phones. the clothing designs are genuinely very good and the 3d modelling is crazy, not to mention the level of customization for the actual character itself. in general i'm surprised that such a gorgeous unreal engine game can run on my crappy old iphone LOL; though at the same time it seems to have worse optimization on android. it's also not really that time demanding and doesn't make you do any horribly boring grindy tasks for your dailies. in the end.. it's a good gpose replacer and that's all i really want from it

>ask the developer if the game has genderlock or not
>they seem unsure. explain what is genderlock and what is not
>"there's no gender, muse :)"
>find nice shoes
>they're locked

i wanna love endwalker but the more i think about it the more it just irks me, the message feels off and the way the devs laughed off people liking and understanding hermes with a "oh, you were supposed to hate him..!" makes little sense with what the plot was.. supposedly trying to go for. i can understand why some people really love it, i think, but personally i can't relate to people saying it really helped with their depression or changed their outlook at all. not to mention the pacing. you can tell it was rushed and squished together in places it shouldn't have been. that being said, i can't say i didn't enjoy my first playthrough of it, but i barely ever want to think about it now. better experienced than thought about too long, i guess. there's some very good moments but there's a lot of slog, and to ME, a lot of the emotional notes hit really hollow but ymmv.

i'm not sure it's worth talking about 6.x or not on an entry for the base msq but.. i also feel a little cheated out of what i was told to expect in square being all "wow! the wol gets to be an adventurer again isn't that nice" and the vibe of how 6.1 was going (which i actually liked a ton) only for it to be like. another generic save the world my final message goodbye plot.. which this time is practically just lifted from another game anyway, and it's not like xiv isn't shy of using other ff titles, but if i wanted to go play ffiv.. i'd go play ffiv man..

tldr: they benched my wife in the patches, unplayable. i miss shb fight design. i miss shb. yoshida when i get you.

has some top tier guys but i personally found the "this is fucked up!" thing to be kind of overplayed in marketing etc.. perhaps my tastes are just strange, but i didn't find it that extreme. i can see how it'd come across that way to people not well versed in, er, fetish territory of any kind though.

there could've been more interesting choices in my opinion and i feel like the plot had potential that was never explored.. i know this is ultimately just porn but i was hoping for it to get a little into the darker details. can't say my time was entirely wasted because the protags are very cute and i like their dynamic but i left feeling a little edged, is all.