Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.3 "finished that story" devs wanted to tell with Dawntrail, and Yoshi-P is "kind of glad and relieved" it's over as the MMO once again puts "the fate of the world" on your shoulders

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As per Final Fantasy 14 tradition, the story of Dawntrail has come to a close with the release of patch 7.3, and the next couple of patches will likely start to set us up for whatever the next expansion has in store. Dawntrail aimed to strip the multiverse-ending stakes of previous expansions back with varying degrees of success, but it sounds like things will soon escalate once again.

"With Endwalker, we reached the climax of one big story," director and producer Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida tells GamesRadar+ via translator. "When we looked at the story of Final Fantasy 14 and the sense of tension that you had at the end of Endwalker, I didn't want us to see a scenario where we just simply inflate the enemy or the bosses that the players encounter. So with that in mind, when it came to the story of Dawntrail, we looked at the hero, our player characters, which are the Warriors of Light, and we positioned them as a sort of mentor of sorts for a younger generation."

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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