At the time I was still a dragoon lover and going into the thick blizzard of Western Coerthas just felt amazing. I loved that I couldn't see too far in front of me and that the map was so large with new elements, fates, monsters. Overall I'm hoping I get that same feeling again from one of the new maps coming in stormblood.
I think my excitement will come from seeing fates based around garlean mechs and troops everywhere, so it'll really sink in that we'll be liberating an area.
Back to HW though, I think my best memory was just walking the entire road length of the dravanian hinterlands. The music in the day time there is beautiful, the map is beautiful, Alex... and probably my favorite thing is that there was no aetheryte. It made getting to it harder and more tedious than others but without an aetheryte, it didn't feel like it had a "central hub" to it like most others do.
If anything, I hope in the future we get more maps like that one but with a nicer way to get to them that doesn't centralize where you begin/end in the map. Anything to make the open world more vast and new feeling like entering Western coerthas the first time.
I think my excitement will come from seeing fates based around garlean mechs and troops everywhere, so it'll really sink in that we'll be liberating an area.
Back to HW though, I think my best memory was just walking the entire road length of the dravanian hinterlands. The music in the day time there is beautiful, the map is beautiful, Alex... and probably my favorite thing is that there was no aetheryte. It made getting to it harder and more tedious than others but without an aetheryte, it didn't feel like it had a "central hub" to it like most others do.
If anything, I hope in the future we get more maps like that one but with a nicer way to get to them that doesn't centralize where you begin/end in the map. Anything to make the open world more vast and new feeling like entering Western coerthas the first time.
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