My sink is made for someone a good 3-4 inches shorter than I am and it absolutely kills my back to hunch over like that for any period of time so gimme that machine convenience over my slipped disk

Yeah it’s definitely the weakest point of the story, I agree with you there. It wasn’t IRREDEEMABLE though. I’d say it’s worth going back to finish. I mean I didn’t expect it to be EW quality since that was the climax of EVERYTHING and this is just the introduction to a new thing. But it very definitely could have been done better. For what it’s worth, if it wasn’t immediately obvious, it’s based off of the Americas, so the southern half is Brazil and such, and then they had the wild cowboy shit as soon as you cross the border into the north. Made me laugh, not gonna lie. Keep playing, it does get a lot better, I promise you that. ESPECIALLY if you have played FF9

Careful, that’s dangerously close to a Dessalines ban talk right there

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It was a pretty rough start for the new arc admittedly. The actual expac MSQ itself was decent, I beyond love all the FF9 stuff (apparently I have no idea how spoiler tags work on lemmy so spoiler below) but the patches have left me so disinterested I haven’t been on to do them for the last two or three at least

Especially since it’s essentially FF9 2, being set in the same world just many years in the future

Very definitely worth it. And it’s free so if you don’t like it, not like you’re wasting anything. Have something like 10k hours in it. I don’t play it much anymore other than to check in and/or dick around with friends since I’ve done most of what I wanted. There’s no FOMO or anything like that. It’s very much built as an RPG, just online (though with the recent updates you can play the entire thing single player if you so wish). So you can just take your leave of it once you’ve done the content you want and come back later without missing anything. Very worth it.

Unironiconally one of my favorite FF stories, third to 9 and 10. And that probably has to do with them taking the time to build up a backstory and lore. So it’s not off to the racetracks minute one, big deal. Do you expect that when you read a book? Makes you care more about the people later on since they’ve been established as actual people and not just Spiky Hair Video Game Guy #1 and Woman Who Should Be Cold In Those Clothes #8