Most Hated XIV Character

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Originally Posted by RyoXander

What is it about Wuk Lamat people hate? I'm kind of indifferent towards her cuz there's nothing really great about her, but nothing overly hateful either.

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This has been talked about to death on this forum.

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Originally Posted by Keumjo

This has been talked about to death on this forum.

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Thanks for nothing <3

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Originally Posted by RyoXander

Thanks for nothing <3

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You're welcome <3

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Originally Posted by RyoXander

What is it about Wuk Lamat people hate? I'm kind of indifferent towards her cuz there's nothing really great about her, but nothing overly hateful either.

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Terrible writing. Much of her dialogue insults the players intellect as a person. Shoehorned into as many cutscenes as possible. Many of which she actually has no reason to even be there. Bad voice acting, that DID get better in the Post Launch patches for additional story, but the voice actor squealing on twitter that everybodys (inject buzzword derogatory here) for criticizing them made them look -- and by transitive association, Wuk Lamat -- even worse. And she has more dialogue than every NPC that speaks in DT combined.

She has 30% more dialogue in Dawntrail, than Alphinaud has in the ENTIRE GAME.

And you can also add on being a Mary Sue. Wuk Lamat solo'd a guy who could solo Primals. Which shouldn't canonically make any sense at all because she doesn't have the Echo, she doesn't have a partially unsundered soul. Nothing. Just a normal warrior who isn't very experienced.

Two people immediately came to mind: Wuk Lamat and Valens.

But here's the thing, I'm supposed to hate Valens.

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Originally Posted by Anienai

Every lalafell excluding Giott.

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Giott's a dwarf. Totally different. :P Unironically very good character, though.

Also no Shattoto love?

WOL..Most Over hyped, over portrayed, over powered, butt kissed character in the game. Time for the WOL too be brutally and unforgivingly killed and sent too the after life. Where they are weak and hated, forced too earn their strength back gain respect and return to the world of the living.

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Originally Posted by RyoXander

What is it about Wuk Lamat people hate? I'm kind of indifferent towards her cuz there's nothing really great about her, but nothing overly hateful either.

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For me personally, it boils down to two major reasons (albeit grossly written):

1. She's poorly written & clumsily utilized to push MSQ progression. This leads to the 2nd point;
2. Her presence smothers the rest of the cast in order to highlight and heightens her importance without backing them up with a coherent and/or believable character development. When you put more screentime & importance on one character (in this case, WL), you will inevitably reduces other character's. This is what WL's usage in MSQ has done to the rest of the cast, for a wholla lot of nothings.

I could go on, but this is also had been discussed ad nauseam in other existing thread in the past with many sentiments I personally echo'd (except the VA part since I play on JP VA :P People can sort that part out themselves).

If you want a tl;dr, WL is basically a 10km wide & 1cm deep-character. I feel like I'm reading a cheap dating sim visual novel with only one love interest that I'm shoehorned to like.

I could barely get through DT because of how much Puke Lamat was shoved into my face.

I used think my least favorite characters were Curious Gorge and Digiorno... until I did the Endwalker crafter relic quests with Mowen and Grenoldt. The only way those quests would have been good is if a Sin Eater showed up and devoured both of them.

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Originally Posted by Basteala

Giott's a dwarf. Totally different. :P Unironically very good character, though.

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Dwarves like Giott really are just lalafell in stupid helmets though no matter how you look at it - same race but a totally different culture/society.

But then I guess SE did the same thing with the elezen being called 'elves' in the First too, but they at least had virtually zero difference culturally between the Source and the First (and weren't wearing silly masks!).