Took a while to get anywhere in FINAL FANTASY XIV Online, because the early combat moves are so slow that I kept waiting for the next action to finish before I could press anything else. The pacing is patient, but when you’re already half-tired it just feels like you’re watching the bars tick down instead of doing anything.
One small cutscene right before a gate in Gridania caught me more than the boss fight that followed. The NPC just mentioned a local harvest festival in passing, but the line stuck. Felt like the first thing that made the place seem lived-in.
Still, twenty minutes later I was back to queuing up another duty and watching the same idle animations loop, so the nice moment didn’t really change the overall rhythm.
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