So the final leg of the FFXI 24 man raid paying tribute to XI in XIV came out last Tuesday.
It was pretty fun.
Feature a giant Shantotto fight. Then Besieged as a trash road block. Then Alexander. Then an Aw'Aern and Zdei x4 trash pack in the Empyreal Paradox entry area. Then Promathia. Then Shinryu.
Shinryu was tatt'd up and looking sick, and doing wicked fast up and down moves that were kinda hard for me to follow (I'm stupidly rusty at XIV from only playing it once every 2 or 3 months).
But then he ate two headed mamool illusion, and turned into a very Barney lookin' Shinryu 2-headed mamool hybrid, and started doing Baby's First Raid AOEs.
7/10.
The story to go along with it succeeded in not disrespecting XI. The Elvaan adventurer Alxaal says that he is an amalgam of all Adventurers and, "Prishe's Friend." (Us). Fake Prishe and him are on the verge of death, cause their Electrope cores were damaged in the raid fights. Shantotto shows up, and ferries them across the dimensional gap back to Vana'diel. FFXIV's Warrior of Light promises to find a way to visit them.
Credits roll, and we get some emotional words on the screen, ending with
With the tagline, "We'll leave the light on."