The Samurai's the kind of damage-oriented melee class I've always wanted to play in Final Fantasy XIV, even if it's kind of awful in PvP. (You can bypass all these restrictions with a new, pricey option to immediately level a pre-Stormblood job to 60 for 25 bucks and complete all story quests through Heavensward for another 25 bucks.) Frankly, I love it. Along with Red Mage, it's one of the two new jobs for Stormblood for players who've reached level 60 and finished the main scenario quests through Heavensward. I experienced all this as a Samurai, which required leveling 10 more levels up from 50 in order to experience the new content. All too soon, though, novelty wears off once it's clear that there's no specialized underwater combat and that there’s little more beneath the waves besides skyscraper-sized stalks of seaweed. It's initially amazing, at least for as long as I can hold my breath here in the real world. Underwater exploration is one of Stormblood's flashy new features, complete with mounts that let you hobnob with the fishes and ninja turtle-like denizens of the deep. Sometimes the surprise washes away fairly quickly. The basic structure of dungeons, quests, and trials hasn't changed much since 2015's Heavensward expansion, but almost everything about Stormblood is worth experiencing, whether it's the new lands, the two new classes, of the fantastic tale that unfolds over the full span of this war-ridden world. It shows us traitors who've deluded themselves into believing they're fighting for the same reason as freedom-minded rebels. It bravely ventures into places where brightly colored fantasy epics like this too often fear to tread, such as sad villages where the locals tremble at the thought of resisting oppressors who've abused them for more than two decades. Worse things happen in Stormblood, the latest expansion for the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, but cruel moments sculpt the overarching narrative into one of the finest stories of the brutality of war and tyranny since The Witcher 3.
It's tragic, but it's also fairly realistic. Famous god-slaying hero or no, I know that any immediate revenge would bring down more hells on the sorry lot. And as for me? I watch all this from behind a rock. She then orders him to kill his parents, claiming they drain the empire's resources. She tosses a baroquely engraved pistol at his feet and commands him to shoot one of his friends. It turns out to be a greater sacrifice than he imagined. A woman in a striking kimono asks a band of Othardian peasants to prove their loyalty to the Garlean Empire and only one - citing a need to feed his family - heeds the call.
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