Best Video Game Stories & Writing of 2019
Honorable Mention: Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
News Editor Giuseppe Nelva: Shadowbringers is an expansion, but it easily stands on its own for storytelling, providing plenty of narrative goodness that it could almost be considered a JRPG in its own right.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s by far the best story the gaming industry produced in 2019 with plenty of moving moments mixed with adventure, comedy, mystery, and even a dip into darker themes that some may not have expected. It’s an epic sequel to an already beautiful story that has made players feel invested into their warrior of lights (now warrior of darkness) for ten years.
We have been living in Eorzea for a large portion of our adult lives. We have made and lost friends. We have celebrated and even mourned them. Nothing else compares.
