Sat down and made an effort to make some progress in Final Fantasy XIV this evening, and achieved a great deal. I believe I am now up to date on unlocking and completing everything it's possible to do at the beginning of "postgame" Stormblood, so now I need to actually get the main story rolling again, which is exciting! Stormblood postgame leads to Shadowbringers, which is supposed to be amazing — and then, of course, there's Endwalker after that, which I haven't heard anyone complain about at all.
I also actually remembered to finish off a Hildibrand quest I'd left half-finished from back in the Heavensward era, so that felt good to finally tick that off, too. I believe there's a Stormblood Hildibrand quest cycle too, but I haven't looked into if you can jump straight into that or if there's main story progress required first. I do know that unlike the Heavensward Hildibrand cycle, there's one of the "series"' iconic silly boss fights to do along the way, so looking forward to seeing that — particularly as it, like many other things in the Hildibrand cycle, is yet another piece of gratuitous series fanservice.
I was particularly entertained during the "Grand Sers" part of the Heavensward Hildibrand quest that there was a full-on note-for-note recreation of Final Fantasy VII's "Ultimate End" animation for Knights of the Round — despite Heavensward having you literally fighting Knights of the Round, the nature of combat in Final Fantasy XIV (particularly around vanilla Heavensward era) means that proper full-on Final Fantasy "cinematic special moves" were out of the question. That fight is still awesome, though; I just wish they'd gear sync it or something so it lasted a bit longer!
Anyway, that's been my evening. Not going to fall into the trap of playing it every night — I'm fully intending to get back to Atelier this week, but I also need to crack on with Full Metal Daemon Muramasa to continue writing about it — but I feel like I'm at a point where I can make some progress a bit at a time and feel like it's time well spent.
Now, though, time is best spent in bed. So I'm off to do just that! Hope your Monday has been bearable.
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