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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker NA.FINALFANTASYXIV.COM The official site for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker. Pre-Order Endwalker I'm making this thread to blog (: And to eventually talk about Endwalker. Open Spoilers for Pre-Endwalker content.

The game skips over what is basically the prologue and it jumps straight into chapter 1. Very weird choice IMO. The party all arrives at the main town at the same time but seems to be lacking memories and then they just join up as they all have this urge to kill Chaos. They get sent on busy work which would be that prologue and skip right over the team building. Right away, Jack is a no bullshit guy and it is indeed worthy of the giga chad meme. He was told that Chaos doesn’t exist, said bullshit, and walked away while blasting limp bizkit. Shit is great. Jack was asked to say something to a scared kid. How did Jack respond to the kid? “Where’s the mayor.” Great people skills, Jack! This game has 3 difficulty modes from the start, and I of course picked hard and play without AI party members(aka solo). The game is hard, but it is also I’m not used to the intricacies of combat. The same thing happened to me with Nioh. It has two methods of guarding. It makes sense, but I wish they just did the more advanced guard and based the game around that. I haven’t even really used the regular guard yet as the advanced guard is what fills your MP. MP works like this. You have two base magic charges. Magic charges are used for everything but basic attacks and healing. You can get expandable charges by doing your finishing move that I will call soul sucking cuz it’s funny, and by using your advanced guard. Your advanced guard drains your stagger gauge much faster than regular blocking. If you get staggered, you are often one hit away from death. Expendable charges go away on death and until you recover whatever it is that drops when you die. I don’t believe you can gain more expendable charges until you complete the corpse run. Now your basic skills only spend the MP in your MP charge slots, but you have advanced skills that also consume the charge slots. It takes longer to rebuild an MP charge slot than to regain MP. You can also dash and roll. You press evade once for dash, which seems to have i-frames and after a dash you can roll, which the game specifically points out that you can get hurt while rolling, and rolling is used to mainly cover distance. I found the first boss to be one of the hardest first bosses I have ever encountered and it does do a good job at making you better at the game. You die until you learn or give up. I really enjoyed it and replayed that mission again right away to fight the boss again. The game is also mission-based, like the Nioh games. The vast majority of cutscenes happened between missions. Actually, some missions are just cutscenes. There are also side quests which, at least this early on, have no story content, and are short and sweet missions with a mini-boss at the end. If I had to compare this to a From game, I’d say it is a mix of Elden Ring and Sekiro combat wise. And I forgot to mention, but you can only soul suck your enemies once you stagger them. The first boss had a split HP bar. You can get him to 50% which automatically staggers him, or you can break his stagger bar, soul suck, and take him to 50% that way. I killed the first boss with my soul suck and I was able to stagger him before I drained all of his HP. Similar situations like that occurred in Sekiro. The job/weapon system seems kinda superficial right now. You kinda just wanna level everything so you can get all the passive and advanced skills (mostly buffs) that can be used regardless of job/weapon. Right now, I favor the Greatsword and Shield and Sword. The Swordfighter job really comes in clutch as you can spend 1 magic charge to make yourself invincible for one attack and when attacked you automatically retaliate with a devastating slash. It actually feels kinda busted and it is hella fun. Shame it seems tied to a base job and not an advanced job. I’d love to use it the whole game and with other weapons. Overall, I am really enjoying the game. And that’s all I have to say for now. Will update as I get further. I probably won’t be beating this before FFXVI so I doubt I’ll have much more to say until some point after FFXVI.

English trailer: Demo up now (?)

They're all already on PS4, which is why it's not included in the title, and I think a few of them are already on Steam, but overall, all platforms will have the following games. Yes, it's missing VIII.