Thread: 5.2 Feedback: The story is getting a bit out of hand...

Originally Posted by MoonPhaseAlpha

Convoluted is an understatement. This game is the epitome of it lol. Loved it to pieces, but I'm still trying to warp my head around the story...

I gave up on KH after 3D. If you ignore all of the games except for 1, CoM, 2, and BbS, you have a complete-ish story there. Anything more than those is...unnecessary convolution.

Originally Posted by BiddyBatnana

Do not play Kingdom Hearts then.

Kingdom hearts is easy if you just remember that nobody is dead ever. Not even the canonically dead people.

Except for Sora's mom apparently who's been MIA since the first game.

Originally Posted by Mansion

I think Vahlnir meant "dead but not dead".
Like Nanamo, (Ilberd to some degree between 2.5 and 3.4/5), Gosetsu, Gaius, Yotsuyu, Zenos, Y'shtola (twice). And that's not counting Ascian possessing dead bodies and stuff.
I too think playing the "you think I was dead, but I was just waiting to conveniently slide in your DMs when the MSQ needs me too" gets annoying quite fast.

Most of those were hinted at pretty quickly that they were not dead. So it's not a case of you thinking they're dead and then down the line they "surprised" you with them not being dead. And as long as there is an explanation that they didn't actually die, I see no problem with it, especially in a world of magic.

Also, Ascian possessing dead bodies are an established fact, so there is no point if they only possess bodies of people we don't know.

Originally Posted by Rymm

Two words for you my friend... Time. Bubble.

FFXIV's approach to timelines is wonky at best, but it's a hard rule that whatever point you are at in the MSQ, it's been 5 years since the Calamity [...] So technically it's been less than a year since we were trying our damnedest to kill each other.

That's not really what the time bubble is for, though. It means we don't expect the calendar to move forward despite months (if not rightfully years) of time and activity between then and now. Our character has still been through everything inbetween.

I also felt my character was overly aggressive towards Gaius, both when we met earlier in 4.x and now. That's not to say she'd be rightfully extremely wary of him and his motives, but the outright threatening gestures seem out of character.