Terrible storywriting, terrible pacing, extremely boring quests the entire way through. Just gathered these 5 flowers? nice, how about you go talk to these 5 people that you don't care about & will never see again :) After that, go walk to the other side of the map to talk to 3 more people :))

Voice acting is subpar, especially for the supposed main character of the Dawntrail story. Trying to traverse the new maps is like trying to find your way through the Himalayan ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mountains, and places where you think you can jump off of (and be at your target location way faster), you face invisible walls, well ♥♥♥♥ you then square! Some maps have bad aetheryte placements as well, forcing you to walk from one side of the map to the other and sometimes all the way back again BECAUSE THERE IS NO AETHERYTE NEAR THE QUEST!!

Jobs (especially healers) have been so homogenized in Dawntrail that there is literally no difference between them anymore. Healer level ups literally have not had any impact on your gameplay on healer since Shadowbringers. Every level up is just 'Skill X gains one more charge', 'Skill Y gains 20 potency', 'Duration of Skill Z's effect is increased by 5 seconds'. Classes like Astrologian and Monk have been reworked so many times that they've completely lost the identity they once had, and square STILL DOESNT KNOW WHAT TO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DO WITH THEM. In Stormblood, Astrologian had different effects for each of their cards. They could augment the effects of their cards, due to their RNG mechanics every pull felt different, there was risk vs reward. Monk had the identity of having different rotations it could follow; it wasn't bound to a single flow, it could adapt to fights easily. Now it's just a reskin of every other 1-2-3 combo class in the game. It's lost it's identity.

The gameplay pressure that the game once exerted at a good level (Shadowbringers/maybe Endwalker) has been watered down so much that you can just alt tab every GCD and be completely fine, missing 0 damage on the boss. Just delete half the classes at this point because obviously you can't introduce any form of innovation anymore. After being a diehard Astrologian main for 6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years, I can't take it anymore. ♥♥♥♥ you square

Terrible storywriting, terrible pacing, extremely boring quests the entire way through. Just gathered these 5 flowers? nice, how about you go talk to these 5 people that you don't care about & will never see again :) After that, go walk to the other side of the map to talk to 3 more people :)) Voice acting is subpar, especially for the supposed main character of the Dawntrail story. Trying to traverse the new maps is like trying to find your way through the Himalayan fucking mountains, and places where you think you can jump off of (and be at your target location way faster), you face invisible walls, well fuck you then square! Some maps have bad aetheryte placements as well, forcing you to walk from one side of the map to the other and sometimes all the way back again BECAUSE THERE IS NO AETHERYTE NEAR THE QUEST!! Jobs (especially healers) have been so homogenized in Dawntrail that there is literally no difference between them anymore. Healer level ups literally have not had any impact on your gameplay on healer since Shadowbringers. Every level up is just 'Skill X gains one more charge', 'Skill Y gains 20 potency', 'Duration of Skill Z's effect is increased by 5 seconds'. Classes like Astrologian and Monk have been reworked so many times that they've completely lost the identity they once had, and square STILL DOESNT KNOW WHAT TO FUCKING DO WITH THEM. In Stormblood, Astrologian had different effects for each of their cards. They could augment the effects of their cards, due to their RNG mechanics every pull felt different, there was risk vs reward. Monk had the identity of having different rotations it could follow; it wasn't bound to a single flow, it could adapt to fights easily. Now it's just a reskin of every other 1-2-3 combo class in the game. It's lost it's identity. The gameplay pressure that the game once exerted at a good level (Shadowbringers/maybe Endwalker) has been watered down so much that you can just alt tab every GCD and be completely fine, missing 0 damage on the boss. Just delete half the classes at this point because obviously you can't introduce any form of innovation anymore. After being a diehard Astrologian main for 6 fucking years, I can't take it anymore. Fuck you square