This is, by a LANDSLIDE, the **best** story based MMORPGS in the entire world *Period*. To think that this game was once an absolute failure only to see it quite literally rise from the ashes thanks to Naoki Yoshida and his team, and become the best MMORPGS in history is nothing short of amazing.
When you start the story in ARR (A Realm Reborn) it is slow, the world is trying to introduce you to all of the Characters, The world's history and lore, the different factions and races and so much more as well as foreshadowing a looot of what is to come in the future Expansion.
Once you are done with A Realm Reborn, you then go into HeavensWard (HW) which is the first expansion and it is an incredible journey, filled with emotion, political intrigue and so much more. It has won an award by itself and it's well deserved.
Then, once you are done with HW, you go into Stormblood which, is in my opinion the weakest of the expansion, but still has some fantastic moments. I will not speak to much of it because of spoilers but yeah, it was a good expansion.
Once you are done with Stormblood, you get into ShadowBringers which is an amazing expansion that surpassed HeavensWard!! It brings the feels and there's some massive surprises and revelations that blew me away! Things that were foreshadowed all the way back in A Realm Reborn! It's a master piece of story telling.
And now, we come to Endwalker.... This..... This expansion broke me.... In a good way tho.... It is... I am struggling to find the words to explain how amazing this was.... This is the culmination of almost 10 years of carefully woven storytelling, it has an extremely satisfying conclusion, an absolute heart breaking story and just.... I'm still baffled that it managed to beat (in my opinion) ShadowBringers as the best expansion... The story, the characters, THE MUSIC (Soken you mad genius!) .... 500/10 best game would 💯 recommend.