u/A_Fitting_End

I posted a few days ago roasting the writing of A Realm Reborn, really going in on the dialogue. Some of you pushed back pretty hard, not to defend the story being told, or the way it’s told, but the quality of the words on the page.

I’m glad you did, because I interrogated my experience and why I felt the way I did. I’m in the following patch content now, and the written language of the dialogue is good. You’re right to give credit to the people who translated, and put in the effort to use interesting language, sentence structure, etc.

I still hated it, but I also have a particular distaste for bloat in story telling. I am looking forward to when dialogue isn’t just info dumping and set dressing, but has a bit more character and tension to it.

Thanks guys! Sorry for roasting your game so bad. If didn’t do it it be mean.

I’m glad I stayed, and am looking forward to playing dark knight!

Here’s my thoughts, as a final fantasy fan-

Character design, environment art, and monsters (animations and design) are genuinely some of the best in the series. Reminds me a lot of the design philosophy of 12. The armor designs of the villains were particularly sick.

Too bad the writing team apparently have only watched mid-tier anime and have never read a book. Dialogue and plot writing are genuinely so bad it astounds me that these lines made it to the stage in production that they asked a human to read them into a microphone. I do NOT blame the voice actors for their flat performances. I’d bring exactly the same energy to anything having to do with this writing.

The end of the game was INCREDIBLE, mechanically speaking. When I fought the first “Judge” (the one with the shields) I woke up. Could the game finally be respecting me? Asking me to perform mechanics? It was the first moment where I saw hope.

The boss rush at the end was nothing short of pure final fantasy goodness. Shit absolutely clapped.

But WHY is every line of dialogue the most meaningless lukewarm non-talking? Literally a silent antagonist would improve on all of this BS monologuing. Genuine eye-rolling nonsense. Felt like I was at the dentist.

Anyway, I’m excited for more, especially because I everyone says it’s only up from here!