#it's okay that dt isn't for me. that means it's for someone else. and i'm glad it's for them
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The thing is, I can always tell how I'm going to feel about an FFXIV expansion based upon the music. HW, ShB, and EW all have leitmotifs that absolutely gut me, just flay me open. Those are my favourite expansions. SB was always the outlier -- the music is still great, and the expansion itself is overall interesting, but mostly because two of my favourite characters in the entire game are in it. But DT... I got nothing. I can name exactly two emotional responses I've had to music in this expansion: 1) the music in Yak T'el evokes Civilizations which mirrors how the zone itself evokes the Rak'tika Greatwood, and my affection for these zones is equally similar; and 2) there's this one song that pops up a couple of times during major MSQ cutscenes that just makes me burst out laughing because it sounds so... boisterously incongruous. It kind of sounds like a choral musical number? I don't know what it is about that song exactly, but it just throws me so far out of immersion.
There's been nothing like Solid or High Treason or Heroes or Tomorrow and Tomorrow or The Ewer Brimmeth or Dynamis to really pluck my heartstrings (or, in the case of High Treason, give me those LET'S FUCKING GOOOO vibes). Even the expansion theme itself is... well, I just don't care for it. And that perfectly echoes the effect -- or lack thereof -- the expansion itself has had on me. I'm still not finished with it (about 9 quests left), and it boggles my mind that I could be taking a whole 2 months to finish an FFXIV expansion. That's never happened before. I keep going on about this because I'm almost impressed at how quickly the script flipped for me -- this is my years-long special interest we're talking about here, not just a game I really like. I want that magic back! Letting go is hard!
#this is not to say i don't *like* anything about dt. it's a perfectly fine expansion! the story is fine!#but that's the thing. when the highs are REALLY high... everything else looks lower as a result. even if it's actually just comfortably mid#it's okay that dt isn't for me. that means it's for someone else. and i'm glad it's for them#but i did want to mention the music thing because i think it's really interesting how that interacts with my overall experience#ffxiv
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