Dawntrail Explained

[FlyingTorcensoredWhale]

I cracked the code, boys!
ARR Writers: Kazutoyo Maehiro. Banri Oda. Yaeko Sato.
Heavensward Writers: Kazutoyo Maehiro, Natsuko Ishikawa, Banri Oda
Stormblood Writers: Natsuko Ishikawa, Banri Oda, Daichi Hiroi, Yuki Kimu
Shadowbringers Writers: Natsuko Ishikawa, Banri Oda
Endwalker Writers: Natsuko Ishikawa, Banri Oda


DAWNTRAIL Writers:
Daichi Hiroi, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Megumi Onozuka

[FlyingTorcensoredWhale]

As a quick aside, Natsuko Ishikawa was responsible for Dark Knight storyline, for instance

[Izumi]

outside of the Wuk Lamat discourse, dawntrails writing sucks ass

[FlyingTorcensoredWhale]

Originally posted by Izumi:

outside of the Wuk Lamat discourse, dawntrails writing sucks ass

Point is, none of the writers that did majority of the "good" work, including the better parts of Stormblood aren't doing any work for Dawntrail.

Notice how Heavensward had 3 big names attached to it too.

People blame Wuk Lamat and English VA. But it's kind of sort of probably just writing.

[MOSLEY]

Originally posted by FlyingTorcensoredWhale:

People blame Wuk Lamat and English VA. But it's kind of sort of probably just writing.

It's definitely the writing. I don't think Wuk's VA is amazing but she definitely wasn't bad enough to make a notable impact on the overall quality of the expansion.

It isn't a coincidence that quality fell off a cliff as soon as Ishikawa and Koji Fox stepped aside. Yoshi-P says they're in "supervisory roles" now but it's blatantly obvious that he just doesn't want to tell the community that the people who have been carrying the game are gone.

[Ultimate Pheer]

Wuk Lamat was a symptom of the problem that none of the writers are actually great at keeping a story on track for very long.

That said, what the ♥♥♥♥ happened? One of those writers did Shadow of Werlyt, where's villains as delightfully hateable as the balloon head man? And they did Bozja too, and Bozja's writing was the best part of the field operation.

[Dustorm]

I don't think it's just the writers. Dawntrail failed in so many regards that it has to be something larger and systematic. Something like SE doing layoffs or withholding resources. You can blame the writers but they appear to be just a symptom of a larger problem.

[Chef]

Wuk Lamat is certainly not great, that's been beaten to death at this point. However she is the least of 14s problems.

I hope some more useful criticism gets through to CBU3 instead of "ahhh wuk lamat ahhhh!"

Because if she was black holed out of the plot entirely, dawntrail would still be a dumpster fire.

[manywhelps]

Originally posted by FlyingTorcensoredWhale:

People blame Wuk Lamat and English VA. But it's kind of sort of probably just writing.

agree tbh. even a character i don't like is tolerable in smaller doses and that is where the writing went wrong.

[Vlad Krapula]

You gotta have something wrong up there if you like zero or wuk or dt story

[EMJESUS]

actual steaming garbage worst DLC evea

[EMJESUS]

wuk was mentioned 400+ times by other characters alone.. not to mention she is the most spoken character in the entire game

[StupidSlinky]

meh... take it how it is. they wanted a lighter happier go lucky kinda story for dawntrail after what they considered a dark endwalker ending... so they succeeded in that even if they may have drank a bit too much of the rainbow juice. its not horrendous and not like we have the whole story yet. it may very well take a turn later.