Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

 PlayStation 3
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9.2

Universal acclaim- based on 247 Ratings

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  1. Odettehr
    Jun 24, 2015
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The best expansion that i played on my alll life in mmos.The story is great, music excellent

    The scenary are beautiful, memorable character, new jobs are really funny, new abilities for all jobs are good
    The only bad point, i don know what i need to do for level another jobs to lvl 60    … Expand
  2. Starlightzz85
    Jun 24, 2015
    10
    I have been playing MMORPGs since the Everquest 1 days and have probably played every major MMO under the sun. I have experienced a lot of expansions, but Heavensward is in an entirely different league. I can honestly say it is the best expansion in the history of MMOs. It is the largest expansion ever released, and also very high quality. The amount of improvements over A Realm Reborn isI have been playing MMORPGs since the Everquest 1 days and have probably played every major MMO under the sun. I have experienced a lot of expansions, but Heavensward is in an entirely different league. I can honestly say it is the best expansion in the history of MMOs. It is the largest expansion ever released, and also very high quality. The amount of improvements over A Realm Reborn is staggering. The story writing is even better than before. The zones are huge and some of the most beautifully designed zones to ever grace an MMO. The music is amazing. They added a lot more voice acting in this one to please all the players that wanted more voice acting, and plenty of the voiced narratives is high quality stuff. The flying is handled perfectly, unlike the way WoW originally added flying, SE got it right. Being able to fly right out of the gate can break an MMO that was not designed with flying in mind, such as it did in WoW which is why they removed it originally. In HW you must unlock all of the aether currents in each zone to fly in that zone. Most of them you find through exploration, while a smaller portion comes from quests in the zone. By doing this SE not only answered players craving for more exploration, but also makes it where players can't just instantly skip over everything, and once you unlock flying there are plenty of quests and other locations that open up. SE plans to continue making full use of flying through future updates. They also made mobs in the open world more challenging as many complained that the mobs in ARR were too easy, but they did not make them so hard that casual players would hate the game. It's the perfect balance. The amount of details and love that went into this expansion is apparent. The cohesiveness and polish of it all blows other traditional style MMOs out of the water.… Expand
  3. ValValentine
    Jun 24, 2015
    10
    Amazing!, all you could ask from any MMORPG or a FF series game, great Main Story full of CS-voice, dynamic events (FATES), great music, traditional questing more relevant now, beautiful and HUGE new maps, great dungeons and new primals. All jobs got new skills, 3 new jobs, flying feels great, new FC (guilds) options. 10/10
  4. sandytaru
    Jun 25, 2015
    10
    Square Enix knows how to tell a heck of a story, and if you're playing a Final Fantasy game for the story, Heavensward delivers. Improved motion-captured machinima breathes life into characters who were a bit robotic in ARR, and the new DX11 support allows for even more impressive visuals throughout the game (if you have a video card with the chops to max it out.)

    This is classic Final    Square Enix knows how to tell a heck of a story, and if you're playing a Final Fantasy game for the story, Heavensward delivers. Improved motion-captured machinima breathes life into characters who were a bit robotic in ARR, and the new DX11 support allows for even more impressive visuals throughout the game (if you have a video card with the chops to max it out.)

    This is classic Final Fantasy storytelling at its finest, with the most challenging fights rewarding you with 30 minutes of epic movie afterward as a prize.    … Expand
  5. Strejdatom
    Jun 25, 2015
    10
    Of course that this game has some flaws, every game has some. But there are things that just kept me playing for almost 2 years and counting.

    First of all, the expansion has shown how Square Enix listens to suggestions. They made bigger locations for us, better main story quests, our characters have become more included in the story and finally show much more expressions. There are many    Of course that this game has some flaws, every game has some. But there are things that just kept me playing for almost 2 years and counting.

    First of all, the expansion has shown how Square Enix listens to suggestions. They made bigger locations for us, better main story quests, our characters have become more included in the story and finally show much more expressions. There are many little things that people asked for in forums and SE just implemented them in Heavensward.

    The story fights are challenging enough but not hard, so even casuals can finish them, while the real challenge got kept for extreme primals and most probably Alexander too.

    Yes, the quests are grindy, but tell me about a MMO that doesn't have grindy quests. It is a dream that will never happen, even GuildWars 2 felt grindy and dull after a while. I always read texts of quests so the story is kinda keeping me fine, but I believe that people, who just click trough every quests get bored, because all they do is kill, find something, gather something, go somewhere, talk to somwhere but don't know why they do that.

    And the way how they started this expansion is epic. No MMORPG ever had better expansion headstart than this. Even Blizzard worshiped by millions of people failed to start any WoW expansion smoothly. We all expected to be unable to play atleast for 2 days and I haven't got a single disconnect while playing 12 hours a day since the day of early access.

    By the way.. I never took metacritic pages seriously and I never will because even if you counted every bad thing in this game, it wouldn't deserve less than 4 - 5, but people who haven't even play this come here and put the worse score without hesitation and don't even bother to write a review. So if you are planning to buy this game, but the score seems to low for you, I suggest reading a few score 10 reviews and score 5 reviews and then just think if it is worth it.    … Expand
  6. Sensin
    Jun 23, 2015
    10
    Beautifully made expansion, best expansion ever added to any MMORPG! Square Enix has done it again, amazing graphics, great storytelling, an all around fantastic experience. Best MMO out there and deserves all the praise it gets. 10/10
  7. Kennyamr
    Jul 2, 2015
    10
    This is the continuation of the A Realm Reborn story arc. This directly follows what happens next after the great finale of ARR. Story is even better than what it was before the expansion.The addition of the new jobs has expanded the ways of players to run through content and the new abilities included in ALL jobs are giving us the change to reimagine our rotations and create new ways toThis is the continuation of the A Realm Reborn story arc. This directly follows what happens next after the great finale of ARR. Story is even better than what it was before the expansion.The addition of the new jobs has expanded the ways of players to run through content and the new abilities included in ALL jobs are giving us the change to reimagine our rotations and create new ways to play. The new areas are really really large and they make you work to be able to fly, it is a bit of a pain at first but as soon as you are allowed to fly, Oh, man you will LOVE it! the story is amazing again and all of the new adjustments are very very good in general. I am very happy with the expansion and I'm looking forward to finally beat Alexander when it comes out next week! Good luck fellow adventurers! o/… Expand
  8. LastResource
    Jan 14, 2023
    10
    worth it and glad to play this game again. so much memories and nostalgia within this fourteenth game in the series. this expansion is breathtaking!

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