Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
I understand, and yes, I always did find it dumb that the adventurer does nothing at all in scenes.

At this point I really do not mind it any more, but that's just me. Personally, I don't like being that typical hero everyone counts on and expect protection from, but a hero that also has their limits, but I know others wouldn't want to be the latter in scenes.

The hero could've done something with that particular scene, sure, but he did confront derplander but was interrupted.
Having limitations, and even weaknesses is OKAY, it's what fleshes a character out. But those weaknesses have to make sense, and align with the story, not shoehorned in as a poor disguise because Square is either lazy or doesn't want to infract on headcanon. It was poorly thought-out to hype our characters like they have if they are going to portray them use helpless in scenes like this. It pulls everyone from their immersion, because it's such a blatant eyesore to anyone paying attention to the story.

The hero didn't confront the derplander, it's the other way around; the derplander confronted us. We as the hero could have been replaced with a goat, and had as much of an impact in that scene as we did. It's gotten to the point where it's almost embarrassing to watch.

Perhaps it's something we learn to live with, but Square isn't making it easy with scenes like this. At least break the scene and allow us to fight briefly against them with Y'shtola, Alph, and Krile. Give us SOME sort of interaction. That whole entire scene was just so poorly orchestrated that threads like this were BOUND to begin popping up on the forums.