Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 726 Ratings

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  1. ericksinm12
    Dec 27, 2021
    10
    Para mi la mejor expansión de todas del FFXIV
    EW, ShB, HSW, SB, ARR. este es mi orden de las que mas me gustaron, juzgando solo los .0.
    Los personajes nuevos 9/10
    personajes que regresan 10/10
    Triales 10/10
    La historia 10 /10
    Me tome 11 dias para jugar de 80 a 90 y leerme la historia con calma y solo puedo decir que fue maravillosa
  2. Louisoiix
    Dec 29, 2021
    10
    I do not believe that there could be a better ending to such, truly, fantastic journey.
  3. Pyross
    Jan 6, 2022
    10
    Probably the best game I have ever played, truly a masterpiece. It ties everything together in the story perfectly and has lots of those moments that avert your expectations.
  4. Oirthir
    Jan 7, 2022
    10
    I've never been more deeply effected by a game, and maybe it's partly where i am in my life, and what is going on in the world, but for right now, this is the most powerful story I've seen told in a video game.
  5. DiabloHades
    Jan 9, 2022
    10
    Before I begin, shoutout to the 26 negative reviews and the 6 people who commented

    I was never a big mmo fan, i played a great number of them, but could never really get that much into it the only exception was SWTOR which I only played because i had people i enjoyed playing with, but that game didn't really leave me optimistic about the core mechanics of an mmo so i was left unaware    Before I begin, shoutout to the 26 negative reviews and the 6 people who commented

    I was never a big mmo fan, i played a great number of them, but could never really get that much into it
    the only exception was SWTOR which I only played because i had people i enjoyed playing with, but that game didn't really leave me optimistic about the core mechanics of an mmo so i was left unaware of what good content was
    then, a friend recommended ffxiv
    I started in shadowbringers, near the end to be exact, and i fell in love with the story, From a realm reborn to endwalker itself, I have been drawn in to this world of cat bois and aetherial gods.
    I am now a best in slot raider that leads party finder groups through savages and extremems, and i love every minute of it    … Expand
  6. Marble145
    Jan 12, 2022
    10
    this is the best FFXIV has been, it ties up all the threads set up in previous expansions and finishes with a satisfying conclusion, the second to last zone is the best this game has ever been, i was in narrative heaven for that entire segment of the expansion. the final zone while a little cliche works well with the elements set up earlier in the expac.
    every new zone, was gorgeous and i    this is the best FFXIV has been, it ties up all the threads set up in previous expansions and finishes with a satisfying conclusion, the second to last zone is the best this game has ever been, i was in narrative heaven for that entire segment of the expansion. the final zone while a little cliche works well with the elements set up earlier in the expac.
    every new zone, was gorgeous and i enjoyed their aesthetic with only the third one being a bit benign, the aether currents were also not too frustrating to collect unlike in Stormblood.
    i cried at the end of this, it was a wonderful conclusion to a wonderful story.    … Expand
  7. Louisoix09
    Jan 13, 2022
    10
    Playing since stormblood was a good expansion but HW was great SHB and EW master class of storytelling I cried so much and the characters have been an inspiration to me in my RL there virtue’s there indestructible sprit and basic reliance’s of the bound of friendship is something we take for granted for this day and age!. The writing is so good and moving and ff14 explores so manyPlaying since stormblood was a good expansion but HW was great SHB and EW master class of storytelling I cried so much and the characters have been an inspiration to me in my RL there virtue’s there indestructible sprit and basic reliance’s of the bound of friendship is something we take for granted for this day and age!. The writing is so good and moving and ff14 explores so many sensitive parts of life religion corruption and more were others fear not go this y ff14 is the best for be it takes risks it’s brace it’s bold and it’s knows it’s identity just put up with ARE after it’s plane sailing ⛵️ peace!… Expand
  8. happyazure86
    Jan 14, 2022
    10
    the best MMO which the scenario is perfect while you can enjoy online community at the same time.
  9. EDINEIA
    Jan 20, 2022
    10
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  10. Laizen
    Jan 21, 2022
    10
    The game was breathtaking. It offers all of the twists and turns that anyone could have asked for and more.
  11. kaptainkoda
    Jan 31, 2022
    10
    Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime.
  12. Fr0zZy
    Feb 5, 2022
    1
    Нет русской локализации, хотя казалось бы игра очень популярна в регионах СНГ...
  13. ArcZ7
    Jul 23, 2023
    7
    This reviews is not of endwalker itself but rather the current state of the game during endwalker expansion. I have spent roughly 2000 hrs in the game. I engaged in PVP, PVE, crafting and gathering. Even though I spent so much time in the game its hard for me to recommend this game to anyone right now. The story overall is fantastic one of the better ones told in video games, butThis reviews is not of endwalker itself but rather the current state of the game during endwalker expansion. I have spent roughly 2000 hrs in the game. I engaged in PVP, PVE, crafting and gathering. Even though I spent so much time in the game its hard for me to recommend this game to anyone right now. The story overall is fantastic one of the better ones told in video games, but everything else just falls flat. The development team is so afraid to try new things that every patch is the same thing over and over again. They are against using third party tools but provide no alternative solutions. Raiding is a joke as you cant use third party tools, but devs wont provide you anyway to learn the fight and expect you to waste time of seven other people to do so. They are talking about being inclusive for others and ban bad behavior, yet they create toxic environment through all the extreme,savage and ultimate raids that even though are amazing are literaly everything that devs are trying to prevent.

    I stopped playing at patch 6.4 as the content just became so staled that I just could not get myself to play. The story stopped becoming interesting to me and everything became awfully predictable. Same copy pasted dungeons with different themes on them (pull mobs, pull mobs, fight boss and repeat two more times), followed by a trial that you only do once and that is it. Most classes feel the same, if you learned how to play one tank you know them all, same for healer with only DPS having some variety which is why its the most popular class type to play. Currently I do not see anything changing in that regards as developers either streamline system that do not need it without improving other aspects of the game to be more inclusive for players that want to play fair without help of plugins. Pointless weekly limits, if you miss to play one week or dont have time to grind your weekly tomestones (Resources) you miss out on new equipment. No idea who this benefits as gear in PVP does not matter and even then the gear improvements are usually minimal. This is not very casual friendly and its pointless annoyance for hardcore players to deal with. There is more things I could go over but this review is getting long enough

    Overall the game in my opinion is missing proper direction. Devs are trying to keep everyone happy but that is simply not possible and as far as I can see they are pushing both the hardcore and casual crowd away. The story at the moment is not giving me any hopes for anything exciting to happen anytime soon and doing the same things over and over again is just getting stale.    … Expand
  14. DQSF
    Mar 21, 2022
    10
    for me its was really great DLC, perfect story, nice ending, nice new maps, and bosses
  15. Holly_Marie
    Mar 2, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Okay so before I start I am specifically reviewing Endwalker, not final fantasy 14 as a whole which would be a 9/10 for me. I’d give ARR 7, Heavensward 10, Stormblood 6 and Shadowbringers 9.5...

    So is this the worst expansion? I think it may be, and I have now quit FF14 after almost 3 years. Why am I scoring it low? Mainly the story. We were promised an ending to the arc so far, which in a way we got however this feels far more like a transitional/filler expansion than a satisfying ending. In many ways the story actually makes Shadowbringers worse by undoing some of that games biggest moments.

    I also felt it was too childish. In Heavensward we fought dragons and in Endwalker we go to the moon and fight silly creatures, none of which really matter because everything was created by Ascians who are no longer the Ascians we once knew but pretty, sympathetic boys who look like they belong in kingdom hearts. We get a glowy space dog, a pop song plays for the generic out of nowhere final boss.. it has Disney elements of story and presentation. This does make it perhaps the most ‘box office’ but I preferred the grittier feeling of previous expansions and Endwalker is no longer the game I fell in love with. There’s also barely anything to do at Max level. I might come back to a later patch but right now I’m all FF14’d out and going to enjoy other games instead.

    I do recommend FF14 if you are a new player entirely, there’s so much to do. But Endwalker, didn’t enjoy it. Finish 5.3 Shadowbringers and everything afterwards just feels like optional fan fiction.    … Expand
  16. Ahoameko
    Mar 19, 2022
    9
    Emotional rollercoaster, in a good way. Be prepared for long cut scenes, and reading.
  17. iKickBullies
    Mar 25, 2022
    10
    Not much to say, I don't like MMO's, but this is the 1 MMO I actually love. The only one that just keeps getting better and better and better. It's executed so flawlessly and is the game that made me understand what makes MMO's fun for people.
  18. Xsss
    Jul 27, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While Shadowbringers story was great beginning to end, EW was disappointing. Fandaniel was a comic book clown, Hermes was boring, Zenos was wasted and Endsinger was just plain dumb. The scion sacrifices at the end were predictable, as was their reversal. The dungeons after zot were extremely underwhelming. Zodiark trial had some cool new mechs but made too easy by playing follow the leader. Agalia may be the least challenging alliance raid since Void Ark, never saw a wipe other than the balance mechanic on day 1. New job Sage is more fun than the other healers, but healing is pretty boring at all levels of the game including savage. IMO the good part of the game ends with Elidibus in 5.3/Seat of Sacrifice.… Expand
  19. True-Gaming1
    Aug 25, 2022
    4
    Endwalker is the worst state this game has ever been in. A decent enough story with some good characters, incredible music, some good zones, awful raids, the worst housing system in video game history, broken queues that the devs tried to blame the players for, terrible PvE and PvP balance, everything gets delayed and released broken, an outrageous cash shop for a game with a subscriptionEndwalker is the worst state this game has ever been in. A decent enough story with some good characters, incredible music, some good zones, awful raids, the worst housing system in video game history, broken queues that the devs tried to blame the players for, terrible PvE and PvP balance, everything gets delayed and released broken, an outrageous cash shop for a game with a subscription fee, no money reinvested into the game, community is just toxic positivity, bots and modders are rampant.… Expand
  20. Severa
    Sep 8, 2022
    0
    Flanderized characters, no stakes in the story, toothless end of the world. This used to be one of my favorite game stories, but endwalker ruined it
  21. 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!
  22. agradecemais
    Feb 7, 2023
    10
    MEU DEUS DO CÉU O QUE É ENDWALKER!?
    Desde o começo da expansão os diretores deixaram claro que essa seria o fim de tudo.
    O definitivo termino da expansão. A trama se passa em torno das divindades Hydaelyn e Zodiark, luz e sombra, que equilibram aquilo que conhecemos desde o começo do jogo, o evento conhecido como fim dos tempos. Evento que acometeu o mundo dos Anciões, até então vilões    MEU DEUS DO CÉU O QUE É ENDWALKER!?
    Desde o começo da expansão os diretores deixaram claro que essa seria o fim de tudo.
    O definitivo termino da expansão.
    A trama se passa em torno das divindades Hydaelyn e Zodiark, luz e sombra, que equilibram aquilo que conhecemos desde o começo do jogo, o evento conhecido como fim dos tempos.
    Evento que acometeu o mundo dos Anciões, até então vilões do jogo, que causa a destruição do mundo. Estrelas caem do céu, fogo consome a terra, as pessoas diante do desespero se tornam bestas.
    Aqui o desespero é a tona. Você está correndo contra o tempos e a cada mapa ou npc novo o desespero e senso de urgência tornam o ambiente do jogo um lugar sombrio e desesperador.
    Aqui você está diante de um inimigo incontrolável, a personificação do niilismo, o próprio fim, a própria morte.
    Temos dois vilões que são personificações da sociopatia e psicopatia e seu unico objetivo é o fim de tudo, seja pelo cataclismo, seja pela morte em batalha, não importa! O fim, a morte, a destruição de tudo é o objetivo.
    O que pode parecer uma motivação vazia e cliche, mas que conversa de forma poética com toda a história e todas as aventuras vividas pelo seu personagem no passado.
    Toda as expansões se ligam de forma catártica e todas as peças do quebra cabeça se juntam.
    Até chegarmos a uma viagem ao passado onde somos mandados para o mundo dos Anciões, um mundo onde a ciencia, o conhecimento, a arte, o sentimento e a busca do equilibrio era o maior dos objetivos.
    Entendemos ai que os Anciões eram o que de melhor existia nos humanos e que em algum momento algo deu muito errado.
    Encontramos então a responsável por esse fim, uma entidade poeticamente retratada como um pássaro, criada por um Ancião sonhador, que tinha uma grande capacidade empatica e a capacidade de viajar pelas estrelas.
    Sua missão era encontrar civilizações para tentar responder uma simples pergunta...
    Que propósito essas civilizações encontraram na vida?
    Ao deparar com civilizações, apesar de avançadas, já a beira da extinção e absorvendo através de seu grande senso de empatia o medo e o desespero diante do fim, acaba por se transformar em sua própria sombra afogando em uma descrença niilista e chegando a conclusão que a única maneira de resolver esse empasse é acabar com a existência de toda a vida.
    A causadora do fim dos tempos...
    Pode parecer meio óbvio e não original.... Principalmente se tratando de Final Fantasy.
    Mas todo esse enredo se encaixa e flui muito bem conectando todos os temas apresentados anteriormente.
    Nesse mundo personagens são vivos, ali pessoas vivem seus sonhos, angustias, inseguranças, medos, desesperos e através de seus heróis buscam andarem livres, buscam escutar, sentir e pensar.
    Respostas que ouvimos através de nossa guia desde o começo do jogo quando matávamos bichos no mato ou salvamos npcs de bandidos, ouvíamos aquela que foi a música da primeira expansão dizendo para vivermos nossa vida, sem arrependimento, sem parar nas adversidades não importando quão escuro era o caminho, mesmo que tudo tenha um fim, mesmo que a vida seja um enigma que devemos suportar deleites de tristeza, nesse momento fugaz que o acaso da vida flui, nesse mesmo momento de acaso ela cresce, portanto, nesse instante efêmero, devemos viver, morrer e conhecer.
    E nesse momento eu morro nessa jornada para quem sabe começar a próxima.
    À terra sempre flui seu proposito. À terra está viva.
    Então devo andar livre!    … Expand
  23. Zusuz
    Jun 25, 2023
    10
    Amazing game! The story is simply awesome, although the last 2 patches or so with Zero were rather... personally I find that character not really enjoyable. Would have wished for them to keep other characters like the Ascians and Zenos. Also wish player housing would be a bit more easier. I'm trying to get a big house for quite some time now. Should also be easier to place items on higherAmazing game! The story is simply awesome, although the last 2 patches or so with Zero were rather... personally I find that character not really enjoyable. Would have wished for them to keep other characters like the Ascians and Zenos. Also wish player housing would be a bit more easier. I'm trying to get a big house for quite some time now. Should also be easier to place items on higher places in an apartment/house. Overall a really great game though.… Expand
  24. Splido
    Aug 26, 2023
    9
    What can I say? Pretty neat.
    Player housing and the story are both great and the reason why I play this game. Both have room for improvement of course, but like others already said, you won't find another mmo with such high quality out there.
    I think most stuff has already said by others and I pretty much agree in most cases. Player housing needs way more placeable items, it should be    What can I say? Pretty neat.
    Player housing and the story are both great and the reason why I play this game. Both have room for improvement of course, but like others already said, you won't find another mmo with such high quality out there.

    I think most stuff has already said by others and I pretty much agree in most cases.
    Player housing needs way more placeable items, it should be possible to place items on all other objecs, being forced to stay sub in order to kepp a house is not fun and it should be easier for all players to get a house, not just a handful. Apartments are nice and all, but compared to a house? Not so much.
    In regards to the story, again, I agree with other people when it comes to a certain prince. Why tease such a promising story arc for him with dozens of unanswered questions and then just end it? Major disappointment right here, in case he really doesn't show up again in the next expansion or at least give us hints, that he survived and will return someday. The way it stands now? Just disappointing.

    Though Endwalker and the devs deserve a solid 9, anyway for the joy this game gave me.    … Expand
  25. HenryF
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    Endwalker has been fairly disappointing when compared to the other expansions.
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#3 Best PlayStation 5 Game of 2021
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#22 Most Discussed PlayStation 5 Game of 2021

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Metascore
90

Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. PLAY
    Feb 23, 2022
    80
    Fans will love this celebratory ending. With the MMO more mechanically satisfying than 8 ever, there’s never been a better time to enjoy the whole story. [Issue#10, p.82]
  2. Twinfinite
    Jan 28, 2022
    90
    While Endwalker fails to eclipse Shadowbringers in most areas, it succeeds in what is by far its most important mandate: properly ending this extremely long storyline in an incredibly satisfying way. It’s a solid tale from start to finish. The expansion adds beautiful new areas, well-constructed new jobs, and all in all, ticks off everything that you want a Final Fantasy XIV expansion to do with the level of polish that players have come to expect. So take a deep breath Final Fantasy XIV fans, Endwalker is fantastic.
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  3. Edge Magazine
    Jan 27, 2022
    80
    This is as satisfying a finale as any devoted FFXIV player could reasonably have hoped for. [Issue#368, p.106]
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