...and I did so with only 14 hours to spare before the servers go down for final maintenance. Come tomorrow morning the servers will be offline for 24 hours as they perform maintenance and get them ready for the Endwalker release this coming Friday.
I'll post an early warning that this post will contain spoilers for the Shadowbringers story.
I posted about Starting the Final Push Before FFXIV: Endwalker Releases about five weeks ago. At that time Endwalker was meant to be released in three weeks. It was a daunting task for sure but one I was quite set on making. Turns out it was actually to big of a task for someone who works 40+ hours every week but with some help from the developers who delayed the expansion by two weeks I actually made it albeit just barely.
Shadowbringers has been a wild ride. I started the expansion 16 days ago which was marked by this post: Final Fantasy XIV - Shadowbringers has left me in awe. That was only three days before Endwalker was supposed to be released. Shadowbringers had me in awe when I started it and that lasted all the way through. This expansion definitely has the coolest theme of all the expansions so far. The story wasn't better that Heavensward though. That expansion had a masterpiece of a story.
The Story of Shadowbringers
Shadowbringers has us traveling to a whole new world. Towards the end of Stormblood, the previous expansion, we and our comrades experience some weird visions and voices in our heads which eventually has them dropping like flies. Their bodies still live on but it's like they're in a coma. We're the last one to be transported only we're lucky enough to be abducted with both body and soul.
Soon thereafter we travel through what looks like a void of space and time before we find ourselves in a lush pink forest. The sky is lit up by this yellow hue even though apparently it's night time, as one of the locals tell us. We can make out pretty quickly that we're in a whole other world.
We quickly end up in another scenario and conflict of saving this world. What more is that the calamity of this world will also spend the end of our own world. That is why we were summoned here by this mysterious person who calls himself the Crystal Exarch.
This world has almost ended once already with the world being about to be swallowed by a flood of light. That was stopped just in the nick of time by someone we know all to well but we won't be going into the details of that today. When that happened the skies were bathed in an eternal light and mysterious dangerous beings known as Sin Eaters started appearing, murdering everything and everyone in their path.
Out job is to rid this world of the Sin Eaters influence and end the flood of light in the skies. We're here to bring the night back, hence the name Shadowbringers. By traversing the land and doing so we end up becoming knows as the Warrior of Darkness in this world. Quite in contrast to us being known as the Warrior of Light in our own world.
That's the basic story at least but there's of course a whole ton of left out details. We're ever in the presence of our eternal enemies, the Ascians, and towards the end of the expansion we get to delve into the history and past of the Ascians, learning a lot about who they were and what their motivations are. This was a really awesome part of the game and one that had me on toes all the way through.
A Prelude to Endwalker
Once we finish the main story we go through a couple of patches worth of content that leads up to Endwalker. With the build up they did in those post story quests it's quite safe to say that Endwalker will be huge. It's gonna mark the end of the story arch that they've spent almost 10 years writing and going through. There's no way that cannot be huge!
I'll return with more details on Endwalker once I delve into the expansion come Friday. As long as I'm not to invested in it that I forget. That may just end up being the case. We'll have to see.
So we look to the moon.
Perfect timing I would say :D
Get some energy drink and microwave pizza tomorrow and you're prepared for the next session ;)
Definitely! I'll do fine with my tea and normal dinner 😛
That's what I call luck, thanks to the delay of the Administrators of the game you were able to finish this expansion without problems.
And with 14 hours to spare!!!!
This expansion has been too good, and according to what you mentioned to me, we saw Fran again, and what a thrill it gives me to see that they still revive the old characters of old sagas, it is undoubtedly one of the best FF I've seen.
By any chance, you didn't see Vaan or balthier ? hahaha
The Rabanastra raid with Fran was from the earlier expansion called Stormblood. I'll be posting about those raids after I've run them a couple of times and gotten some nice screenshots. They're really cool! You only got to see a taste in the Discord.
Caan and Balthier are not names I recognize, no.
Thanks for the support dude :)
I've never been that much of a FF fan but because of how well you talk about these expansions I'm going to venture out and see what it's like.
Awesome! You can play the base game and first expansion (also best expansion) for free with the free trial. No need to pay anything for 100+ hours of gameplay. If not even more.
@pusen As usual, though I am not a gamer, the images and your spirited narration of the game stages keeps me engaged! Great that you could finish before the servers went into maintenance.
Cheers! It's good to know that my posts can appeal to non gamers as well. Have a good weekend when it lands!
Congratulations on your timely accomplishment! 😁
I'm really looking forward to Endwalker -- not so much the content, but because Endwalker's arrival brings forth the arrival of Australian servers! Well, not immediately, but sooooooon. I'm looking forward to playing with no lag! It's going to be great!
May Endwalker be glorious and keep you on your toes!
I'm super stoked for the story. That's been the biggest thing for me in FFXIV so far. Next to the awesome raids and dungeons. The dungeon and raid design is the best I've ever seen in a game.
Final Fantasy XXIV has a much broader appeal than the rest of the franchise, in my opinion. Not necessarily more mainstream, but broader.
Yeah I think so to. It's different in being an MMO and not having turn based combat like most FF games do. That's what has made me not play a lot of them. Also, this is the biggest grossing FF game of all time.
I have never been too interested in FF but I would love to play the classics and then jump into something more modern like FF15. good post and congratulations!
Me neither. I always tire of turn based games so I don't play them. This one is quite different though being an MMORPG. I'm probably gonna play the remake of FF7 once (if) I get my hands on a PS5. You should check out some of @lionsaturbix' posts. He's been posting a bit about the old Final Fantasy games.
Congratulations! Well done on your journey bro dudenstein!
To Endwalker!
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Thanks man! This journey was a long one. Appreciate the pizza!
I'm nerdy and I love it
Congrats man! Those screens looks so good tbh. But where is the NieR dungeon video haha ? :D
I haven't done the Nier raid yet. It's from this expansions and I haven't taken the time to unlock it yet. One of my friends did it recently and he said it was sick. Will get to it once the hype around Endwalker settles down and I'm done with the story I guess.
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