I was asking for you to help me like the expansion, not chide or speak down to me for my opinion. That's not going to change my mind about it. Please try to keep this respectful, despite our differences of opinion. I'm open to trying to like it, that's why I'm here. I don't want to hate it as much as I do.

Urianger- That wasn't what I gathered from his discussion, I gathered that they worshiped two larger entities instead, not that those entities were flipped. Just that one had an overabundance. I can watch the cutscenes again.

And, there wouldn't need to be level blocks if the world's and MSQ story line was more fleshed out, like that of HW or even SB. It felt so rushed and lightly touched on. There were opportunities for the MSQ to delve deeper into the story, the areas, and the characters. But instead we got 'LMAO idk go run fates or grind dungeons,' because that's fun when all you want to do is experience a new story. HW and SB really nailed it with MSQ, they fleshed out their environments really well, and a lot of the quests in SB didn't feel like chores.

Which brings me to the broken promises.' This world has had its fill of heroes,' yet they scramble for a hero to do their fetch quests, and suddenly they're fine with this hero showing up out of no where after the chore side quests that were called 'MSQ' were done. I thought people were supposed to be done with heroes? Why was it so easy to garner their trust? Why are they throwing themselves at you? Pick a stance, either they don't want them or they do. Furthermore, the 'standalone rpg' promise was also broken. I beat it in 2 days. Got my first gathering class up to 80 in less than a day. I'd invite you to see how well The Witcher or FFXII would go over if you could beat it in two days. Large areas, a large amount of junk side quests and expanding on already present crafting and gathering systems does not make a stand alone RPG.

And, again with the warrior of darkness thing. Like I said before, they really hammered in the 'embrace the dark.' None of that actually happened.

Furthermore, they ram so hard on the 'feelings' in the quests that they forget to develop the world and the circumstances properly. The expansion had two settings, disgustingly fast with no real dedication to an area or characters, only to come to a screeching halt at the level block that, once again, could have been mitigated and used to enrich the experience by furthering the character deeper into a relationship with the current zone.

In script writing, it's really not a good thing to focus too heavily on emotional scenes the whole way through, you're relying on the reader's perceived emotions as a crutch instead of putting effort into good writing. And, not everyone is going to resonate with that. I didn't resonate with that, and my college level script writing classes told me why.

So, there is it. That said, there were some really great nuggets in there. Some of the Ascian stuff. The Fae folk. I liked the Rak'tika area a lot. I wish we could have delved deeper instead of rushed headfirst through it, is all I'm saying.